mimesis

Example Sentences

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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

There was a somewhat belated reaction to the danger of mimesis, and before the close of 1934, most Falangists were denying that they were fascists.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017

His first work, published in French in 1961 and in English in 1965 as “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,” introduced the idea of mimesis through readings of classic novels.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

Whence this neglect to practise mimesis, 'protective mimicry'?

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander