emulation

De Palma’s slavish emulation of Hitchcock runs through numerous films, and with notable specificity.

Yet “The Greatest Night in Pop” also makes a strong case for the artistic value of “We Are the World,” which after countless parodies and emulations can be hard to hear today with fresh ears.

I had become a deep reader of the genre in my 20s, and, as all writers are readers in emulation, I began to think about writing a hard-boiled fiction of my own.

Some of this was a matter of emulation, since Chandler is the funniest of the New York sextet.

The heroes, icons and role models of our past were, and remain, worthy of the utmost respect and emulation because of the example they set.