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
They are partly simple and unreflected expressions of an attitude of emulative ferocity, partly activities deliberately entered upon with a view to gaining repute for prowess.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
Before long, her emulative spirit got her so interested in this particular game that she forgot not only the sham skirt but the sham pretense upon which she had bullied Irene.
From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson
The example of Machiavel, like that of all creative genius, influenced the character of his age, and his history of Florence produced an emulative spirit among a new dynasty of historians.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
