Sentences with phrase «of imitation of»

His works for his degree showing felt very little to Leckey, producing a system of strip lights he considered to be a kind of imitation of art rather than work of genuine merit.

If Clement Greenberg proposed that Modernist painting, in privileging form over content, could be defined as «the imitation of imitation as process», I wonder whether in Post-Modernist abstraction the process becomes rather «the imitation of the imitation of imitation».

Join us for the preview of Imitation of Life, our new group exhibition that looks at the performance of racial politics in an evolving, digital world.

«Samsara is a game of mellifluous sentences and complex ideas, set in a world that is not an imitation of an imitation of an imitation of Peter Jackson's imitation of D&D's imitation of Middle - earth.

James Ellroy, Perfidia Stephen Rebello, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Stephen Tobolowsky, The Dangerous Animals Club Jennifer Grant, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant Piper Laurie, Learning to Live Out Loud John Grisham, Bleachers James Earl Jones, Voices and Silences Henry Bromell, Panic Howard A. Rodman, Savage Grace Fay Wray, On the Other Hand Betty Comden, Off Stage Budd Boetticher, When in Disgrace Michael Powell, A Life in Movies Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, Too Funny For Words Stephen Rebello and Edward Margulies, Bad Movies We Love John Waters, Trash Trilogy and The Obsessions of John Waters Louis Sacher, Holes Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate Jack Palance, The Forest of Love Roger Ebert, Ebert's Little Movie Glossary Terry Jones, Nicobobinus and The Fly - By - Night Bernie Brillstein, The Little Stuff Matters Most Mia Farrow, What Falls Away Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Dennis Hopper, Out of the Sixties James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart and His Poems Mark Frost, The Greatest Game Ever Played Sam Staggs, Born to be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life

I think I could incorporate a lot more vegan meals if I just embraced the ingredients as they are, instead of trying to turn them into some kind of imitation of a meat / cheese / etc.

This is the real sense of the imitation of Christ.

I read a modern English version of Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis about 1 year ago and LOVED it.

In passing judgement on him, the hearers are affirming the principle upon which this aspect of the teaching of Jesus turns: the experience of God demands a response in terms of imitation of that experience in relationship to one's fellow men.

It was too preachy, too obvious, and too much of an imitation of secular music.

We ought to allow our living experience once more to fill the empty verbal shells of an all - too - familiar religious language, so that the word of the cross and of the imitation of the crucified Lord might suddenly receive an intelligible content and a power that force men to make a decision.

St. Francis championed the Church's sacramental life, but the drama of his imitation of Christ took place in the world, not within the Church's sanctuary.

While most scholars believe that Francis was ordained to the diaconate, his way of living the gospel life was a decidedly lay pattern of the imitation of Christ, ordered to evangelization.

Not surprisingly, St. Faustina's diary figures prominently, and several passages of The Imitation of Christ are quoted.

One of Dujourie's recent series, entitled Ballade (2011), consists of imitations of the flowers of medicinal plants associated with the legacy of ancient medical knowledge.

Not exact matches

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Social media has changed much in the world but imitation remains the sincerest form of flattery.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it only makes sense that you should want to emulate the entrepreneurs who are doing the sort of things you want to do.

While some of these imitations could be mistaken for the real thing, others are abandoned ghost towns or remain half - finished construction projects.

And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, plenty of companies — including some on these pages — are sincere flatterers of SRC.

The place boasts imitations of the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Statue of Liberty, a Venetian piazza, Elvis... and we won't even catalog all the fake body parts on display.

While we do not have control over the scripts of any television show, we exclude programs that we consider to be offensive, or in bad taste, or which could stimulate anti-social behavior through viewer imitation.

In Gatsby, the Rumsey estate appears in slightly modified form, as Gatsby's own house: «a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.»

The man tasked by the EU to lead the bloc's discussions with the U.K. over «Brexit» has been rehearsing his Grinch imitation, pouring cold water over the brief uptick in optimism that followed a summit last week that formally blessed the advance of talks to a new, second stage.

I thought I had more than 300 horses the entire time, testament to how that V6 in combination with a 9 - speed automatic does a passable imitation of a small V8.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it's also a good way to devalue a currency.

«I thought I had more than 300 horses the entire time, testament to how that V6 in combination with a 9 - speed automatic does a passable imitation of a small V8,» my colleague Matt DeBord wrote in his review of the car.

Jack Posobiec, known for perpetuating conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and storming onstage at the politically charged staging of «Julius Caesar» in Central Park, also initially said he'd never heard of it, though he said that «imitation is the best form of flattery.»

Imitation can be the sincerest form of flattery, right?

At worst, we'll be nothing but a pale imitation of the travelers who've been on this journey before us.»

Chobani's McGuinness pointed to too many products, too much duplication and imitation, as well as a lack of innovation in yogurt for declines in the category.

Thiel now also identifies a more personal reason he was likely attracted to Girard in college: his own unconscious imitation of those around him.

Collection agencies are forbidden from sending imitation court documents in Canada, but only in Ontario and British Columbia are the regulations broad enough to prevent lawyers from sending draft statements on behalf of agencies, argues Mark Silverthorn, an Ontario lawyer.

But the Moya III isn't something you should buy imitations of if you're thinking of getting it at all.

In terms of buying cheaper imitations in order to just have a leather moto in your closet — something I've definitely fallen victim to in the last three years — I really wish that I hadn't.

«Everyone here talks a mile a minute,» he says, inserting a quick, rhythmic «da - da - da» imitation of conversation flow.

For example, Michele Bachmann has her own off - beat, opinionated social media flair, taking to Facebook make quips such as: «Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; thank you Governor Perry for using my ideas for your tax plan.»

«My friends and I have all pieced freelancing, contracts and part - time work together to make an imitation of a full - time job,» says Allison Sparling, who has worked in communications for multiple organizations.

And we like the idea of them being somehow computer - generated rather than simply «digital copies,» which feels like a cheap imitation of physical collectibles.»

No longer just a low - fat ice cream imitation, frozen yogurt has exploded in popularity over the last seven years, thanks to the emergence of tart flavors and the self - serve model.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Canadians should be thrilled: our own government has been in talks with the EU since 2009, and the two sides are now reportedly close to a...

While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, doing things exactly as they have been done in the past does not catch the interest (and money) of any given market.

Buffett opined that greed, fear, envy, and mindless imitation of others are among the factors that mitigate the transfer of the mind's horsepower to the wheels that propel us along the road toward business and investment success.

Imitation may be the best form of flattery, but Canadians have good reason to be wary about US attention, especially when it comes to potential trade actions or industry support.

While of course living by the old adage that self - praise is no praise, if imitation remains the sincerest form of flattery, then we'll take the compliment.

I just finished reading a Henri Nouwen book «Wounded Healer» and the following sentence just resonated with me: `... the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his».

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Of course, that Catholic culture was fading at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the Church.

The study of divinity is not possible apart from what the author of the Epistle to the Ephesians dares to call the imitation of God.