emulative

Example Sentences

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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016

His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

What visions did he conjure of emulative ardour to carry off the prize among his companions, and win fame that might reflect its lustre on all his after life.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

The emulative predatory impulse—or the instinct of sportsmanship, as it might well be called—is essentially unstable in comparison with the primordial instinct of workmanship out of which it has been developed and differentiated.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein