mimesis
Example Sentences
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Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018
In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.
From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018
“Girard was talking about mimesis, that humans are monkey see, monkey do,” he says.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2018
With mimesis above all, it is wise, when the law says that a thing is black, first to enquire whether it does not happen to be white.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
