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

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

His objective, it seemed, was to abandon mimesis, the depiction of people and things.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey