Sentences with phrase «person by imitation»
Behaviors and ideas copied from person to person by imitation — memes — may have forced human genes to make us what we are today
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Israel was probably also acquainted with images at the beginning: the brazen serpent, used under Moses» high authority, and perhaps taken by David from the Jebusites and placed in the sanctuary; the golden calf, undoubtedly an image quite acceptable to the people at a late stage, in imitation of the Canaanite bull.
· Whilst tradition in England has people carrying Palm branches in imitation of Christ's triumphal procession into Jerusalem, in Italy they usually carry olive branches and strew their churches with bay leaves, so that the Palm Sunday Procession leaves the most delightful smell, as those walking by crush the leaves as they go.
In one such suburb outside Chongqing, laborers and domestics sat on the curbsides outside security gates staffed by guards in the best imitation People's Liberation Army outfits, the only touches that would make this community out of place in California or New York.
HERB also uses imitation learning to figure out how to handle objects by watching how people handle them.
Toddlers build theories about the people and things around them not just by observation and imitation but also by running «experiments» on their surroundings — experiments their parents might not always appreciate, as they may be messy or disruptive.
If I'd gone out and bought the same dress and bag and scarf and created an exact duplicate of her outfit, that's imitation... and these days I don't know that most people are all that flattered by that (imitation may not be the sincerest form of flattery) imitation.
It's a strange feeling when you feel a film comes across like a neutered imitation of a recognisable artistic voice, only to realise come the end credits that the film's screenplay was actually written by that person.
«Selma» tops AAFCA's top ten films of the year, followed by «The Imitation Game,» «The Theory of Everything,» «Birdman,» «Belle,» «Top Five,» «Unbroken,» «Dear White People,» «Get On Up» and «Black or White.»
Consider that Valiant isn't even good in comparison to the usual run - of - the - mill swill — that people who liked the Shrek flicks may actually try to prove their sophistication amongst themselves by rejecting this pale imitation of an embarrassing cultural artifact.