Sentences with phrase «slavish imitation»

Playing a slavish imitation like this year's Pivvot only reinforces how singular and essential Super Hexagon truly is, and how difficult it must be to design a game so perfectly simple and pure.

«Slavish imitation can produce nothing of any interest,» Auster said, «but every original artist has always been alert to what other artists are doing.

It is, if nothing else, a better and less slavish imitation of the master's moves than Super 8.

And to their credit, Denis Villeneuve and his collaborators only rarely feint towards slavish imitation of the original; certain scenes come off as echoes and evocations rather than simple copies — for example, a postmortem scan of bones corresponding to the photograph analysis in the original.

Borrowing a few tricks from Martin Scorsese, the film isn't a slavish imitation but an engrossing and grounded drama.

Or, to speak like Aristotle in his Poetics, the mythos is the way to true mimesis, which is not slavish imitation, or a copy, or mirror - image, but a transposition or metamorphosis — or, as I suggest, a redescription.

Until recently those sciences have been marred by a slavish imitation of the methods and concepts of the physical sciences (as, for example, in behavioristic psychology).

There is a half - truth to this demand for slavish imitation, this insistence on the direct mimesis of cultural norms.