mimesis

Example Sentences

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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

Her newest project explores mimesis, or lifelike replication, in both 15th-century paintings and synthetic biology.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016

Though this wasn’t the only score of his that made listeners wonder whether he entertained ideas of representation, mimesis, evocation in his work, he — like Cunningham — kept quiet about these matters.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2016

What they felt was not mimesis but “participation,” unity, and community.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen