| 单词 | imitative |
| 例句 | I knew it must have been a trick she had taught him, or imitative rodent behavior. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Too eager, too anxious—an imitative and unoriginal pupil. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Another duty is to respond to the deluge of raw, imitative fan letters addressed to the steadfastly unavailable author. ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff And with these latest casts, interpretations that might have been merely dutiful or imitative have instead a sprightly freshness that makes you smile both at what’s familiar and what’s new. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z “Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative,” Wharton explains, in the first of many passages that, in Twitter parlance, might best be described as the author dragging Undine to hell. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Some studied themselves in the wall-to-wall mirrors; others fixed their gaze on Jones, whose eyes moved from body to body as the dancers executed an arm-swinging gesture imitative of immature gawkiness. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Is this overstuffed rendering of an overstimulated culture what they call the fallacy of imitative form? Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Habitats” is even more imitative of Cunningham in its vocabulary than “For Once,” and its lack of clarity and intention is consequently more striking. Dance Review: Movements in the Cunningham Mode 2011-04-29T21:20:53Z We see how the labyrinth operates on more than one level-in our imitative act of finding our way in and out. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The court found that Mr. Saderup was liable because his drawings were too imitative, failing to “transform” the Stooges’ likeness. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z The term echoes the imitative sound of the plate coming off the page and was a way to represent an image again and again in nearly identical form. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s the imitative fallacy, Creative Writing 101 stuff that would make Kenny cringe. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: What About Bob? 2013-06-03T12:47:01Z “The vocal writing has an incredibly wide range, the imitative counterpoint is going back and forth in rapid fire between the two choirs, and Martin is using a 5/8 meter.” Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Though imitative of photographs, these delicately realist works are full of painterly depth and texture. Painter Paul Winstanley Captures Empty Artists’ Studios on Canvas 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The ersatz elements of the Positano raise the question of the book’s own imitative impulses. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z As accomplished, competent, or even virtuosic as these guests may have been, the imitation, even when purposefully not imitative, usually paled. The Glorious Inconsistency of the Grateful Dead 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There are echoes of Balanchine all through it, but if the dance is imitative, it also demonstrates lessons well learned, particularly concerning musically responsive structuring. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z That complex was first exacerbated by talking pictures, and it shows up in contemporary times in the kind of acting that gains critical acclaim and wins Oscars—showy, theatrical, imitative acting. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z He is becoming more interested in sort of archaic styles — certainly imitative counterpoint — that he was trained in, and blending it with the experience of studying with Morton Feldman. A Long-Lost Symphonic Love Story Is Told Again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z If we stop assessing robots by their imitative powers—how close they get to mastering humanness—we might begin to appreciate their creative powers in a new light. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “In the long run, it’s positive because it’s not imitative, but it was negative because it wasn’t unanimously accepted at the time.” Chris Cornell, whose Soundgarden helped forge ‘grunge’ sound, dies at 52 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Reynolds dissects dozens of imitative novels, plays and minstrel shows — some against, others for slavery or segregation — and traces the influence of Stowe's novel into modern times, including film spin-offs. 'Mightier than the Sword': How 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' changed the course of American history 2011-06-15T19:38:03Z For neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, writing in the 18th century, the essence of poetic creation was mimetic, or imitative. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “Everybody that played the horn after he did was showing how much they owed to him. But it wasn’t their music. It was just an imitative thing.” Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z But last year, when I saw “Girl” on its opening night in London, with a British ensemble straining for Americanness, the script often felt labored and imitative. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Secondly, it’s imitative or impressionistic, approaching idealized notions of circus bands, 1950s New York jazz, the New Orleans jazz funeral. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z If so, getting your avatar dressed in the morning may feel less like playing paper dolls, and more like a unique form of value-signaling and experimentation; may seem additive, rather than just imitative. The Avatars Wear Prada 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z One of the things that make Emma the most digestible of the four is that Russo’s portrayal of her is more logically imitative of her personality. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z He absorbed his teacher’s smooth but detailed way with religious painting, and paid admiring, imitative attention to other Florentine art, such as Michelangelo’s “David” and Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished Palazzo Vecchio mural. Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z This is among the best of its kind, confident and not completely imitative, but it sits oddly with the modern, standardised block it covers. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z “Starlet” is informed by the New American Cinema but not slavishly imitative of it, particularly in respect to its seemingly rootless, aimless lead character and the ordinary beauty of her unglamorous world. Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z These stories often feel like throwbacks to his early genre-inspired work, but they lack the energy and imitative verve that fueled the best of those endeavors. Review: ‘Lucky Alan,’ Jonathan Lethem’s Dreamlike Tales of Seclusion 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Stanislavski felt the company's acting – his own as much that of his fellow players – remained painfully self-conscious and imitative; it lacked the pure "truth" he conceived of as the prime object of the actor's art. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z The literary critic Yvor Winters might have derided the project as relying on “the fallacy of imitative form,” but you’d be hard-pressed to achieve the same disorienting effect in another way. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z “StartUp” is trying to meld the high-finance sheen of series like “Billions” with the gee-whiz digital jargon of, say, “Scorpion,” but it never seems innovative, only imitative. Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z It is American art, specifically the art in the Armory Show, that suffers most in older histories, which almost without exception dismiss it as recessive, imitative, backwater stuff. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z They show themselves most imitative when claiming to be most independent. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z Instead, their popularity seems reflective of certain magpie tendencies today: an indiscriminate and imitative mixing of influences from the Backstreet Boys to classic rock, a borrowing of whatever is useful. Movie Review: ‘One Direction: This Is Us,’ Documentary by Morgan Spurlock 2013-08-29T21:53:09Z Yet the very first decisions are whether the story itself is fundamentally misbegotten, whether the mode of production is original or imitative, whether the movie is worth making at all. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” and the Death of the Hollywood Comedy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The research also details potential breakthroughs in specific areas, including pump-jet propulsion and internal quieting devices, based on "imitative innovation" of Russian technology. Inside Asia's arms race: China near 'breakthroughs' with nuclear-armed submarines, report says 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z The series arrives as the culture is much disturbed by the question of artificial intelligence — of ChatGPT and various art programs and whether their products are imitative or creative. 'Mrs. Davis' review: Betty Gilpin brilliantly battles artificial intelligence 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z While the company has long had policies against content that promotes eating disorders, the new rules focus on limiting content that is “imitative.” YouTube launches new rules restricting eating disorder content 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z It drops humans from eons away and ago into an extinction-level event, and instead of being full-on weird and wondrous about it, prefers to be utterly imitative and complacent. Review: There are '65' million reasons to avoid the new Adam Driver dinosaur space flick 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Could such an imitative image be produced using AI? Artists are alarmed by AI — and they’re fighting back 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The only reason to mount such a protest now, it seemed, was the date: Jan. 8 is close enough to Jan. 6 to provide the necessary imitative frisson. Brazil’s Jan. 6 imitation and the futility of populism 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z That’s not a bad approach; getting arty might just seem imitative, and the noncanonical status of this new chapter allows it not to be too precious about what came before. Showtime's ‘Man Who Fell to Earth’ sequel won't blow your mind, but it's solid sci-fi 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The imitative relationship between life and art is at the core of Small’s recovery, though in a more literal way. Perspective | After a debilitating stroke, a pianist feels his way back to music 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z But those efforts, like so many film adaptations before them, distill essentially only the basic ingredients of their stage sources — plot, character, music — and as a result feel more imitative than transformative. Perspective | Oscar nominee ‘Drive My Car’ is already a winner — as one of the most insightful movies about theater ever made 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Maybe Murrow was right about us being an imitative society. Putin's threat to the world grows — and much of our news media is not up to the challenge 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “It was shown to improve functional hand use, early written communication skills, social skills and comprehension,” Rickson and McFerran wrote, as well as “head posturing, in-seat behavior” and to “increase interactions and imitative behavior.” A teacher hoped to connect with students with disabilities. She found a way through music. 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Like more than a few filmmakers, Zhao has long counted Terrence Malick an influence; like relatively few filmmakers, she has managed to channel that inspiration in ways that feel more than merely imitative. Review: In Marvel's epic 'Eternals,' a cosmic breath of fresh air ultimately turns stale 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Called AD19, the imitative was started on 2 July by a group of five volunteers. The group rescuing pets orphaned by Covid in Indonesia 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z So central to our culture and so often mocked — made the emblem of television at its least imaginative and most imitative, at its tritest and tiredest. The old-fashioned sitcom is still going strong. Here are 6 to watch this spring 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z From the imitative to the innovative, these sixbreakfast sandwiches are for the staunch herbivore, the skeptics, and everyone in between. Six vegan breakfast sandwiches that will make you reconsider bacon, egg and cheese 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z It moves, with light-fingered assurance, through sequences that transform from soulful arias into sustained duets, built around performances that are collaborative rather than imitative in nature. Review: Four legends walk into a motel room in Regina King's superbly acted 'One Night in Miami ... ' 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z All of her imitative powers are trained on the rhythms and recursive habits of Trump’s talk. Commentary: There's an art to impersonating Trump. Just ask J-L Cauvin and Sarah Cooper 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Man, Aristotle observed in “Poetics,” is an imitative animal. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In a commencement speech at her alma mater, she championed imagination for its ability to save “the average girl . . . from an imitative life.” Review | America needed their journalism; they needed each other 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr Leonard said there was an "international atmosphere of rearmament" which made it "even more important" to see a new "international imitative around peace and disarmament". Scottish party leaders clash in election debate 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It seemed worthy of Ibsen without being imitative. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The imitative fallacy was, in Winters’s view, close to being a national literary vice. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z TV can’t help but respond to other television—for its entire history, it’s been an imitative, self-conscious medium. The Raw Trip of “Random Acts of Flyness” 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Denney then chose Stop Predatory Gambling Idaho to argue against the instant racing imitative. Idaho election chief selects arguments for initiatives 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “So what calms babies down? Bouncing them, rocking them, shushing them, enveloping them, letting them suck. These are all imitative of their experience in the womb.” How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep Into Big Business 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Her denunciations of Trump are the best things being written and far better than the imitative paragraphs of Times commenters. Opinion | Trump Shows Us the Way 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Williams’s first novel cannot be charged with imitative form. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The movie, perhaps subscribing to the fallacy of imitative form, adopts this dispersal method as a narrative strategy: a scene here, a flashback there, chunks of exposition strewn about like severed fingers. Michael Fassbender won't melt your heart in the dreadfully incoherent thriller 'The Snowman' 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z EDT with Foxconn "for a technology manufacturing imitative announcement that will bring jobs and billions of dollars in investments to our country." Foxconn to announce new U.S. manufacturing plant: source 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame.” Donald Trump, Apple, Serena Williams: Your Wednesday Briefing 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z When I joined the V&A in 1994, some people still saw plastic as an imitative material rather than a material in its own right. Q&A: Brenda Keneghan: The polymer conservator : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “The social being, in the degree that he is social, is essentially imitative,” wrote the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde, in his 1890 book The Laws of Imitation. The secret of taste: why we like what we like | Tom Vanderbilt 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The theory of imitative behavior began to fade. What Movie Censors Did for Women 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z EDT with Foxconn "for a technology manufacturing imitative announcement that will bring jobs and billions of dollars in investments to our country." Foxconn to announce new U.S. manufacturing plant: source 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z When Moore’s law ends, and with it ends the promise of cheap neural networks that might imitative a human, however poorly? Contractors and Temps Accounted for All of the Growth in Employment in the Last Decade 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Trump’s pitch to the American people is fundamentally imitative: be like me. Decoding the mystery of black athletes who support Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “I took imitative in the offseason and took it pretty serious and stayed in the gym,” he said. Hosmer hits 2-run double, KC beats Cubs in split-squad game 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z He operated on the theory of imitative behavior—the notion that an audience, particularly a young audience, will copy what it has seen on film. What Movie Censors Did for Women 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z I suspect that what the objectors *really* abhor is anything new, as opposed to imitative or generic. China Moves to Halt ‘Weird’ Architecture 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z World Series of Football” died quickly, deemed too imitative of baseball’s Fall Classic. How the Super Bowl Got Its Name 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z She’d recite a great work and follow it with a poor imitative one. Phil Jackson, Pat Summitt, Mary Karr and a special triangular connection 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z An onomatopoeic, or imitative, word that mimics the sound of something shattering, crash dates back in English to about 1400. From ‘Bubble’ to ‘Crash,’ the Incredible Origins of 7 Finance Terms 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The theory of imitative behavior was now empowered by the authority of science as well as by common outrage. What Movie Censors Did for Women 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Almost overnight, the Chinese Internet as well as television became flooded with magic programs and videos — often of the most imitative and unskilled sort, Lu says. An American magician takes his tricks to China 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Their depiction of a demotic violent resistance that is spontaneous and unorganised, and with imitative elements, reflects assessments by many in Israel’s security establishment and by statements posted online by some attackers. What’s driving the young lone wolves who are stalking the streets of Israel? 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z But it's as much a creative work as an imitative one, and it's much more stylistically sophisticated than Larsson's three Millennium installments. You just can't kill Lisbeth Salander 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z But Hague defended the imitative, saying progress had been made and there was greater awareness about the need to tackle such crimes. Angelina Jolie warns Islamic State using rape on unprecedented scale 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z To the theory of imitative behavior Breen added the practice of moral compensation: sin could be shown in movies, but it had to be punished. What Movie Censors Did for Women 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s all a part of the department’s healthy living imitative that began last week using an indoor treadmill designed for office use. Spartanburg cops see who can go farthest on office treadmill 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Key, who has given a lot of thought to the matter, feels that both his empathic and his imitative skills are essentially a form of hyper-responsiveness. Brother from Another Mother 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z We hear the existential psychoanalyst Leston Havens describe his use of imitative statements, exclamations by the therapist that seem to come from within the patient: “What is one supposed to do?” Why Doctors Need Stories 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z "The states are in competition and I want jobs," Cuomo told reporters after announcing the imitative, according to a recording of the comments provided by his press office. New York to form first U.S. state Ex-Im bank: Cuomo 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z So it’s been a great imitative so far. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson on his new foundation, Monday's game, and more 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That’s a good thing, though what you do instead — mostly shooting, sneaking and speeding around a fantasy version of Chicago — dithers between inspired and imitative. Here Are the 15 Best Games of 2014 (So Far) 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z In its first two weeks, the imitative garnered $1 million from grassroots donations. Tech moguls raise cash to fight Washington's 'big money problem' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The $10 million pilot program on Long Island is part of New York's Fuel NY imitative, launched in June. New York launches state gasoline reserve for emergencies 2013-10-27T21:53:59Z Whether this has been because of deeply-held notions of human factors engineering, manufacturing difficulties or a desire to not appear imitative of Samsung, the tide may be definitively turning. Larger Screen iPhone 6 Touted For September 2014 Launch 2013-10-08T14:30:00Z After all, as Collins English Dictionary points out, "ta" originated in the 18th century as "imitative of baby talk". How 'thank you' fell out of fashion 2013-07-17T16:58:44Z The potential for these "imitative techniques" sets off alarm bells that would be reflected in the questionnaire for online user-generated content. DIY YouTube directors to self-regulate under new censorship scheme 2013-06-16T00:28:33Z "A lot of startups we're seeing are imitative of other operations around." Social Media Week: inside New York's startup bubble 2013-02-21T22:25:45Z So, anything less than perfect or, in this case, unintentionally imitative is bound to open the floodgates to negative feedback. RIM pins revival on Blackberry 10 2013-01-30T00:30:19Z “We also compared his imitative vocalizations with that of other elephants, and it was very different.” Observatory: Surrounded by Humans, Elephant in South Korea Learns to ‘Speak’ 2012-11-03T00:57:18Z Samsung is famed in business circles as a "fast follower" – letting others innovate before flooding the market with excellently-made, rather imitative products. Samsung: Olympic smartphone firm aims for big global wins 2012-08-09T18:58:31Z Pictorial art is of necessity more or less imitative. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Among the distinctively original features of Liszt's technic are the bold outline, the large form, the imitative effects of organ and clavier, the orchestral timbre it imparts to the piano. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Ephemeral literature, then, at the Universities has always been essentially imitative. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z A great many horses will jump imitatively when in company and do pretty clean simple work. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The greater part of the imitative stained glass, or "diaphanie" as it is styled, fails not only in colour, but in design; and in this indeed it may perhaps be said to be especially faulty. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Why, one may ask, did James Cooper, who was in 1823 a writer of national and international reputation, publish this volume of imitative stories for adolescent girls, even though his identity was carefully concealed? Tales for Fifteen 2012-03-21T02:00:38.090Z His first efforts were apparently imitative, and were directed to the attainment of perfect mastery over form, metre and rhythm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The imitative mass mere empty echo gives As walls and rocks return the sound that they receive. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z We can trace it in the hot religious eloquence of Edwards even better than in the imitative poetry of Mrs. Bradstreet. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Such imitative renderings are not to be produced by the ornamentist; they must come from the pictorial artist, for they are pictures. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z As Cooper's hopes for The Spy faded, his confidence in the viability of the type of imitative writing he had attempted in Precaution appears to have revived. Tales for Fifteen 2012-03-21T02:00:38.090Z The chief stress through all these years he lays on good literature,—good both in substance and in form; for children at this age are intensely imitative. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z On the other hand, among young people especially, it has been noted that there is frequently an imitative element in suicides. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z It follows that the art of the Phenicians was essentially imitative and intended to furnish objects for trade. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z "The ornament of such works on the English side consists largely of imitative carving." British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z In the department of philosophy, besides several writers of dissertations bearing an imitative, didactic or polemical character, Hungary could boast a few authors of independent and original thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z In many cases this expression was given some indirect or symbolic form, as in gesture, ritual, tableau, masquerade, and imitative portrayal. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z The Barkers in the meetings would run about on all fours growling, "to show the degeneration of their human nature," and they would end in almost general fits of imitative hysteria. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z I hate whatever is imitative in states of mind as well as in action. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Most people are exceedingly imitative, and nothing is so gratifying to the average orthodox man as to be like his God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The rude imitative dances of early civilization are of extreme interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Blows horn, strikes with hand or foot, waters flowers, tries to wash hands, to comb and brush hair, to execute the other imitative movements. 20th to 24th Months—Marks with pencil and paper. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z After the great plague, the Black Death, in the fourteenth century, there were very remarkable epidemics of imitative hysteria in Germany and elsewhere. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Beauty is not attained, life is not revealed, everything is imitative, feeble, and absurd. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Thus from actual imitative pictures we arrive at indicatory pictures. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The crypt under the altar at the basilica of St Maria Maggiore in Rome is merely imitative, and the same may be said of many of the crypts of the early churches in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z But enough has been said to shew that the greatest artists have not thought that a style of drawing strictly imitative of common nature, was well adapted to subjects of an ideal character. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z But the case of an imitative artist reproducing impressions derived from literature is different; and the circumstances of Terence's Phoenician origin and early life may well have developed in him a precocity of talent. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The imitative methods of his artistic apprenticeship had given place to a maturity and independence of art that at once won a supremacy in tragedy even greater than that already attained in comedy. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z At any rate it is pleasant to think that Mr. Masefield in a strong, not an imitative or servile, sense, is heir to the oldest master of English narrative verse. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z All specially imitative music does this; for example, “The Seasons,” by Haydn; also many passages of his “Creation,” in which phenomena of the external world are directly imitated; also all battle-pieces. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z They are almost as imitative as monkeys, and are all great liars; falsehood is universal and inveterate with men, women and children. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z As his art is purely dramatic and also imitative, for any further knowledge of his character and circumstances we have to rely on his prologues in which he speaks in his own person. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Classicism in both England and France was not greatly imitative of either Sophocles or Racine, but mainly insistent on immaterialities. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z But imitative of great men in their whims and fancies, he refused to imitate the base in acts which he deemed cowardly. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Their religion was formal, their art imported, their literature imitative, their aims were practical, their interests unimaginative. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Every child,—dependant and imitative,—is obedient as a matter of course if nature is not early interfered with, and put out of her way. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z He speaks with the enthusiasm not of a creative genius, but of an imitative artist, inspired by a strong admiration of his models. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z As a playwright he was, in fact, usually imitative and often unskillful. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z People called to offer their congratulations; and the vicar talked affably of the imitative tendency of marriage, seeming to ascribe Prudence’s good fortune to the example set by her sister. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The recent excavations on the 478 Acropolis have proved the erroneousness of the view, strongly maintained by Brunn, that the mass of the black-figured vases were of a late and imitative fabric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z No parents of sense can fail to see that children are as imitative as monkeys, and have better memories. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z This imitative and composite workmanship is more apparent in the later than in the earlier poets. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Its habits and food are similar to those of the last species, and it is said also to possess the same imitative power. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z But the period covered was one involving radical changes in the electricity market, some of which made the effects of the greenhouse gas imitative harder to discern, according to some experts. Green Blog: Greenhouse Gas Effort Was a Success, Study Says, Even if Political Winds Blow the Other Way 2011-11-15T12:46:13Z And in neither is this substitution of alien traits imitative, merely. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z I wonder if others have noticed what an imitative fruit the blackberry is. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z From one point of view, therefore, Roman poetry may be regarded as an imitative reproduction, from another, as a new revelation of the human spirit. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is to be noted, however, that the Ainu, though to a certain extent as imitative as monkeys, have also a large amount of personality and originality, due to their shy and unsocial habits. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z These preludes are usually in keeping with the love-phrases that follow, cold and imitative. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Is not the artificial black gnat imitative of the live black gnat? The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z I do not find it so wonderful as the imitative faculty of some mocking birds or even of our delightful little marsh-warbler, described in another book. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Dumas and Sue were accompanied and followed by a vast crowd of companions, independent or imitative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The Pope apes the very thunders of heaven, and such are the "imitative powers" of his priests and bishops, that they are equally as destructive as the original. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z For the imitative faculty of the colored race is extraordinary, and the negro maids of the white ladies of Havana copied faithfully every detail of the gait and gestures of their mistresses. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The others are smaller fry; ambitious and imitative, but less experienced and smooth and audacious. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z They were styled “formed” or “figured” stones, “lapides sui generis,” and were asserted to be due to some inorganic imitative process within the earth or to the influence of the stars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Shocking to all her feelings was this attempt to disguise, so imitative of guilt, so full of semblance to conscious imposture. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z It is as well though, in dealing with this subject, to draw a distinction between purely imitative and descriptive music. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Ipomedon is equally perfect in another way, being one of the most clever and successful specimens of the conventionally elegant work which was practised by imitative poets after the fashion had been established. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The mavis is imitative of the songs of other birds. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z I, obeying the imitative instinct that is so strong in childhood, tried to regulate my life in conformity with his. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Man is to a great extent an imitative animal, and when young he is much disposed to be a mere follower of others. The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z This useful and attractive book, with its profuse and interesting pictures, its fair typography, and its quaint binding, imitative of an old-time sampler, should prove a favorite.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z She left him abruptly and began to pace back and forth on the porch, with her hands behind her, an imitative trait unconsciously copying her father in his moments of stress. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z A voice imitative of that of the Third Assistant who taught the annex, hurled forth questions which were immediately answered by another voice, curiously like that of Isidro. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The imitative instinct of childhood quickly reproduces the sentiments around it, and set phrases which meet with admiration flow glibly from baby-lips. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z There is no need to suppose that in this simple kind of imitative make-believe children know that they are acting a part. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z During the formative years of what we now regard as an established literary taste, but which later generations will modify in turn, most American poetry was imitative of English models. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z But in her first paper the style is coldly correct; imitative of good but severe models, and displaying none of the writer's individuality. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z She modelled very beautifully, and in this talent, which was in a manner intuitive, she displayed a creative as well as an imitative power. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z It will probably be admitted that this and similar tales prove the existence of the savage element of mythology among the Aryans of India, whether it be borrowed, or a survival, or an imitative revival. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The imitative impulse, too, prompting the child to carry out on the doll actions similar to those carried out on itself by mother and nurse, is a strong support of the delusion. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z India-rubber to be sure, is apter to smear than to obliterate drawings in chalk; but a three-penny piece is not much; and you cannot too early encourage the imitative faculties. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z It is largely responsible for the systematic formation of good habits, which should here be stimulated by example and precept, and every advantage taken of the imitative instincts so powerful in early life. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z It is to emphasise a distinction between an imitative and a creative art that the following chapters are offered. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z A great example comes from a great nature, 67 and we who live in fellowship with dependent and imitative youth should acquire natures large enough to serve both their needs and our own. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Most of children's play is imitative of the serious actions of grown-up folk. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z They have no real parallel in any series imitative of Virgil’s second Eclogue, or in occasional sonnets to patrons or patron-friends couched in the high-flown language of the time. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z That they should feel it appears incredible: yet it could not have been a mere imitative monkey-trick, a mere echo of the teaching of their master. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The imitative instinct inherent in mankind reasserted itself with an irresistible intensity, and new forms of pictorial expression were eagerly sought after. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z This presents a most imposing façade, on which are observable the imitative forms of fantastic architectural devices. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The imitative impulse of childhood is wont in these cases to follow out the correct and prescribed order with punctilious exactness. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z If he is like most young dramatists, for example Shakespeare on the one hand and Ibsen on the other, he works imitatively at first. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Some will be prosaic and merely imitative; some will show the greatest confusion, and the most fantastic operations of mind; others, the most charming fancies; and others, inventive genius. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z Whatever the personal graces or defects of Mr. Moore, it is quite certain, at all events, that he early exhibited considerable mental power and imitative faculty. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z And being of a light, imitative nature, she quickly marked in the procedure of the ladies whatever would befit herself: she had of late grown all politeness and decorum. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z One mite of fourteen months was quite concerned at the misery of an elder sister, crawling towards her and making comical endeavours by grunts and imitative movements of the fingers to allay her crying. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z His countenance acquires a comic and jolly expression, and his imitative instincts become curiously developed, and as a general rule he is very sweet-tempered. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z I endeavored to wake up the love and perception of form by hanging upon the board various exquisitely shaped vases and leaves, but neither these nor rectangular forms aroused her imitative powers. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z The imitative tendency is evidently a strong factor. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Architecture is the least imitative of the arts, its freedom in the representation of nature being restricted by the necessity of serving the end of utility. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z In the earliest art, in the efforts of children, in the wall-paintings of the Egyptians, and in Japanese representation of nature, the process is selective and not imitative. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z As I know your imitative faculties, dear middle classes, I can conscientiously assure you that you may take 'Piccadilly' as a guide upon which to frame your own society. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z A case of chorea will induce imitative movements in susceptible bystanders that may be quite uncontrollable. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In recent times attempts have been made to upset the dictum of Aristotle as to the imitative character of the arts generally, exception being taken in respect of music and architecture. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z In this imitative play we see from the first the artistic tendency to set forth what is characteristic in the things represented. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The supposed fern of the Upper Silurian, figured in the first edition of this work, has proved on further examination to be merely an imitative form produced by crystallisation. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z There are many suggestions of Wordsworth, but Hartley Coleridge is not an imitative poet. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z It is good or bad in so far as it is directly imitative of work of the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z The arts imitative of nature—The arts classified according to the character of their signs—Poetry not a compound art, primarily—The extent to which the arts may improve upon nature. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z These movements are purely spontaneous, or, if imitative, are so only in the sense that they follow roughly the directions of another's pencil. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z So also Sidney declares that genius, without "art, imitation, and exercise," is as nothing, and censures his contemporaries for neglecting "artificial rules and imitative patterns." A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The story in his earlier attempts is always imitative, awkward, and conventional; it is never natural and never spontaneous. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z For instance, he did not stick at branding Shakespeare as an utter barbarian, and to explain the reverence for such “disgusting” plays as “King Lear” as a crass demonstration of imitative hypocrisy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Some crimes are traditional in certain districts, and the imitative faculty being strong in criminals, heredity and mimicry work together to cause a certain historicity in crime. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z The Southern white people are the parents of the idea that physical labor is disgraceful, and, being such an imitative people, we have accepted without question, their standard of what is honorable. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z The nobler of the imitative arts are concerned with the objects of the nobler senses, while the ignobler arts are concerned with the objects of the senses of taste, touch, and smell. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Any slight imitative work in a child implies the energy which impels invention in a man. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z It was imitative: it summed up a period of poetry. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The imitative and imaginative faculties may be quick. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Representative pantomime is apt to degenerate into mere imitative movements. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z There she stood impenetrably herself, limitedly intelligent, well-meaning, imitative, and powerless. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z The fluting of the column, which I doubt not was the Greek symbol of the bark of the tree, was imitative in its origin, and feebly resembled many caniculated organic structures. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Its extremes are wholly imitative in aim, and dull, and wholly conventional in aim, and empty. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z These said black babies are inconceivably quaint, and the older children charming, and very intelligent, till they reach their twelfth year, when their brains suddenly appear to cease all development, excepting in the imitative arts. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The interpretation of such a poem is difficult because it verges so close upon the imitative that readers are apt to lose the spirit and intention of the author. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Man is naturally an imitative animal, and some crude form of drama must have been in existence in very early times. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline; whence absolute completion of imitative form is often supposed to be in itself wrong. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z A world seemed some way to lie between her present self and the writer of those imitative verses. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z The subject-matter of this imitative poetry was love—but love that bore a peculiar relation to ordinary human feeling. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The genius of their language and of their usual style of poetry, as well as their own practical and imitative character, were unfavourable to the composition of such bold, figurative, and discursive strains. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Brown has left the inventive and taken to the imitative art. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Leaves may be carved in the most regular order, and yet be meanly imitative; or, on the other hand, they may be thrown wild and loose, and yet be highly architectural in their separate treatment. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Thanks to the imitative instinct that rules the world, all the ladies of the vicinity modelled their behaviour towards Zinka upon that of the Countess Lodrin. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The Republic and the Empire were for them the two most glorious epochs of their own history; and any attempt which they made to revive either literature or art, was imitative of the past. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Afranius was the most celebrated writer of this last class of dramas, which were probably Greek pieces accommodated to Roman manners, since Afranius lived at a period when Roman literature was almost entirely imitative. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z So true it is, that man is born an imitative animal, that instinct rules us, and that the great emotions of the soul are catching. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z What is the peculiar treatment of ornament which renders it architectural? and what is the right use of color as associated with architectural imitative form? The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z It is a transition Poetry as an imitative art. from space into time, from the sphere of material forms to the sphere of immaterial images. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Literature, abandoning imitative elegance, expressed the feelings, thoughts, and aspirations of a breed second to none in Europe for acuteness of intellect, intensity of emotion, and greatness of purpose. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The imitative productions of Ennius may be likened to those trees which are transplanted when far advanced in growth. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Franky's naughtiness is of a wholly imitative character; but his little warm heart is his own. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z It will be thought that I have somewhat rashly limited the elements of architectural beauty to imitative forms. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Painting, as to its means or instruments of imitation, dispenses Painting as an imitative art. with the third dimension altogether. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z They present the natural material of neo-pagan Latin verse without its imitative form. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In his hut he was in the habit of discarding his European coat for the loin cloth and the blanket, for Elebi was a savage—an imitative savage—but still barbarian. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z After conducting experiments and interviewing guitar players and collectors, they have just published papers analyzing “celebrity contagion” and “imitative magic,” not to mention “a dynamic cyclical model of fetishization appropriate to an age of mass-production.” Urge to Own That Clapton Guitar Is Contagious, Scientists Find 2011-03-09T01:54:43Z The greater part of those delights by which Nature recommends herself to man at all times, cannot be conveyed by him into his imitative work. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z In considering bas-relief as a form of sculpture, we have found ourselves approaching the confines of the second of the shaping imitative arts, the graphic art or art of painting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Still a deep, deep well of feeling, In my mother’s heart is stirred, And the tears come softly stealing At each imitative word. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z We must become national, nay, provincial, and cease to be imitative cosmopolitans. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z That is a belief in what is also called imitative magic: things that resemble each other have similar powers. Urge to Own That Clapton Guitar Is Contagious, Scientists Find 2011-03-09T01:54:43Z That was more than he could compass by any movement of imitative sympathy. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z So again do those of the imitative and the non-imitative arts differ among themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z He was clever, imitative, and consequently a good actor in the little plays he wrote and dramatized; he was very shy, but at his best in the home circle. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z It is often said of the Negro that he is an imitative race. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z “Consumers use contagious and imitative magic to imbue replica instruments with power,” Dr. Fernandez and Dr. Lastovicka write in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. Urge to Own That Clapton Guitar Is Contagious, Scientists Find 2011-03-09T01:54:43Z The imitative ape has been common property for a long time. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The Imitative and the Non-Imitative Arts.—Each art either does or does not represent or imitate something which exists already in Second classification: the imitative and non-imitative arts. nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z It is, like the rest of the work this evening, imitative, after a fashion, but I think it will prove effective.” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z They undoubtedly reveal decadence, yet they are respectfully imitative of the great achievements of the Renaissance, whereas the works of his numerous disciples are surcharged with contortion, obvious effort, and strain for effect. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Imaginative children, and those that have some variety of experience, are rarely at leisure to appear in their own characters—so constant is the dramatic and imitative impulse in exercise. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z They have fresh minds, and they are the most imitative beings on earth if one excepts the smaller species of monkeys; they are not a civilized people. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z It was the imitative character of the fine arts which chiefly occupied the attention of Aristotle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The intervention may need to occur very early, as differences in imitative ability show up quite fast. Monkey Behavior May Provide Clues to Autism 2011-02-19T19:34:11Z The success of the Italian imitative epics of the 15th century led to some imitation of their form in Spain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Is it, then, the work of a somewhat imitative fourth-century poet, naturally influenced by his great forerunners? The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z The previous examples will serve to illustrate at once the proposition they are intended to support, and also the imitative character of the roots or elements of language. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z Solid modelling, and real light and shade, are the special means or instrument of effect which the sculptor alone among imitative artists enjoys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z This contact and the imitative behavior that ensues—the infants will smack their lips in response to the mother doing the same, for example--helps bond the infant to the mother. Monkey Behavior May Provide Clues to Autism 2011-02-19T19:34:11Z Except in the imitative vein of ballad Scott. or folk-song, the poetry of Sir Walter Scott is never quite first-rate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z When the poets of Rome began their imitative study of Alexandrian models, it was natural that the elegies of writers such as Callimachus should tempt them to immediate imitation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The vehement gesticulations of uncivilized tribes is another manifestation of the imitative propensity. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z The next and last of the imitative arts is the speaking art of poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z It is one of the most elegant of the imitative art, and from time immemorial it has been an amusement for otherwise idle fingers, from the cottage to the palace. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z In every real and therefore in every imitative action, the intervals may be more or fewer, the restriction of five acts being accidental and arbitrary. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He thought his poetry too imitative, detecting not only the truthful severity of Crabbe, but a “slight bravura dash of the fair tuneful Hemans.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It appears, then, that the principle that language was imitative in its origin does not involve the inference that there is for that reason a tendency in human language to Unity. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z When the imitative feature is in itself an indispensable member of the architectural construction, to architecture rather than sculpture we shall probably do best to assign it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z His object, as I suppose, is to keep up the good old institutions, to set their example before the world, to govern the imitative monkey in us. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Unfortunately, we English are prone to extremes, and possess the imitative rather than the creative faculty. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z Never—not even when she had danced for Dr. Salmoni—had she allowed her imitative faculties such full play. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The names of Animals and Birds are found to be nearly all either descriptive or imitative, and Synonymes are much more numerous in certain classes of words. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z But in the general standards of form and design there was in the imitative arts relatively little change, though towards the end there was much failure of skill, throughout the whole period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The City Council provided money to it from a discretionary fund under a special imitative focusing on mental health care for children under 5. Budget Ax Falls on Children's Mental Health Program 2010-10-06T18:27:00Z It may be said that this could never happen among a people of strong artistic instincts, and we have certainly in our conceptions of art been theatrical and imitative rather than dramatic and real. The True Benjamin Franklin His subject must be charged with the force of the present, and not be mere material for the exercise of his imitative faculty. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil "An' to go an' ask him too!" said the younger, with an imitative toss. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 And those arts we cannot call imitative at all, which by combinations of abstract sound or form express and arouse emotions unattended by the recognizable likeness, idea or image of any definite thing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z It was a new spirit affecting the whole of art and literature and life, not an architectural movement only; and as far as architecture is concerned it was not a mere imitative revival. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Besides, at heart we are all so frightfully, hatefully imitative. The Hillman And in all these cases the admiration of their predecessors is an incentive, not to imitative reproduction, but to new creation. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It sanctifies the ancestral hall, the closet, and the bedchamber; it is the subject for the exercise of the highest genius in the imitative arts. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The mixed space-and-time arts of the actor, and of the dancer, so far as he or she is also a mimic, belong, of course, by their very name and nature, to the imitative class. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The tendency of the 19th-century revivals, on the other hand, except in France, was distinctly imitative in a sense in which the architecture of the great Renaissance period was not. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" To a great extent this is merely imitative, but the circumstances of the period operated so as to produce a species of originality. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Into the first of these pitfalls the imitative poets of the Flavian era sank; the more ambitious littérateurs of the Neronian Age fell into the second. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil I know now that I was merely imitative, choosing for models the character-drawings of men who knew even less about women than I did. Stranded in Arcady The essential difference only begins when the imitative arts, sculpture and painting, begin to emancipate and detach themselves, to exist and strive after perfection on their own account. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z And, after some preliminary swayings in varying directions, he at last "found himself," as he supposed; developing a dexterous imitative craft, and joining an advanced crowd with Whistler and Sargent for his deities. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel When, however, the Englishman and the Australian speak each in his native tongue, only such words as belong to the interjectional and imitative classes will be naturally intelligible, and as it were instinctive to both. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Though Virgil may be the most imitative, he is at the same time one of the most original poets of antiquity. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil And the art of learning how to choose, and what to choose, and how to carry out my will, is for me, since I am gregarious, imitative, and conventionalised, a social art. The Sources Of Religious Insight He had always wanted nightingales, but so far he had put up with imitative blackbirds. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Their growth in England, both from general causes and imitative policy, was very similar and nearly coincident. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 I believe one of the proofs of Darwinism lies in the imitative sense possessed by the individuals composing American society. With Edge Tools Recognising the radical difference between the two kinds of representation, some recent criticism refuses to the latter altogether the title of epic poetry, and relegates it to some province of imitative and composite art. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil We saw that Plato regarded all art as imitative, and that such a view is essentially unsatisfactory. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The only possible danger might be that the child's imitative faculty could lead it to extremes of pitch in imitating some singer. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists They tend, he argues, to enervation, to a poor imitative, self-conscious art, to an artificial, morbid life. The Vagabond in Literature Within six years, after passing through all the imitative stages of probation, he produced masterpieces he might have repeated but never surpassed. Aubrey Beardsley But while the subject and burden of the second of the two songs contained in this Eclogue are suggested by that idyl, the poem is very far from being a mere imitative reproduction of it. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Business men, not being artists, are stupid because they deal with money-profits, and they are imitative because money-making in the ultimate analysis is never original. H. R. The skill shown by the Etruscans in metal-work and gem-engraving never extended to their pottery, which is always purely imitative, especially when they attempted painted vases after the Greek fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Such were the rude beginnings of human language; and whether that theory be correct or not, there are certainly practical reasons which impel the savage to attempt imitative art. Custom and Myth New Edition Even the tassels on the cushion are carved with clever imitative skill. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction In the earliest poems of the series the art of Virgil, like the lyrical art of Horace in his earlier Odes, is more imitative and conventional than in those written later. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Although he made several ingenious improvements in scientific instruments, his mind was rather imitative and critical than creative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" His music is highly polished, always interesting and never imitative. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Now, in many quarters of the globe, this custom and this superstition, combined with the imitative faculty in man, has produced a form of art representing the objects from which the families claim descent. Custom and Myth New Edition This temple, less in form, with equal grace, Was imitative of the first in Thrace: For that cold region was the loved abode, And sovereign mansion of the warrior god. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 There are times that naturally produce real, others that naturally produce imitative poetry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 His works are rather the fruits of great cleverness and patient care than of fresh and original genius; and his style was essentially imitative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" It thus to a great extent prevented that connection of imitative art with religion which flourished in heathen antiquity, and has been introduced into certain forms of Christianity. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Thus the theory that art is a disinterested expression of the imitative faculty is scarcely warranted by the little we know of art’s beginnings. Custom and Myth New Edition The Prioress and the Franklin are laughed at a little—she for the pains she gives herself to display her imitative high breeding, and for—only think it!—A.D. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Tranquil, stagnating times, produce the imitative; times that rouse in man self-consciousnesses, produce the real. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Pushkin is never imitative of Byron; but Byron opened his eyes to a new world, and indeed did for him what Chapman’s Homer did for Keats. An Outline of Russian Literature The monkeys, intelligent, imitative, and active, are nevertheless very limited in range and variability, because they can comfortably subsist only in forests, and in the warmer regions of the earth. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science One of the oldest problems has already risen before us in connection with the question stated: Is art the gratification of the imitative faculty? Custom and Myth New Edition Man is an imitative animal, and the clothing propensities of any one European people have always run the round of the rest of the family. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Here were true lines and true modeling, not dead, as he had warned her, but quick with life, portrayed not only with truth but with a handling all his own, free from imitative touches. Ewing\\'s Lady And here was this blindly imitative nation trying to turn them into heavy cavalry. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Meanwhile imitative folly set the Jacobin fashions of long pantaloons and high boots for good republicans. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington Now, among the lowest, the most untutored, the worst equipped savages of contemporary races, art is rather decorative on the whole than imitative. Custom and Myth New Edition Symbolical or imitative acts, accompanied by spoken formulae of set form and obscure content, accomplished, by some peculiar virtues of their own, results that were beyond the power of human hands and brain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" She echoed his rich guttural imitatively and laughed as she drew in a deep breath of the damp air. Ewing\\'s Lady They are the playthings, not the tools, of language, and any attempt to reduce the most common and necessary words to imitative roots ends in complete failure. Lectures on The Science of Language Does your face ache you to make it screw itself all this way?” and she made a comical grimace, imitative of the sufferer’s expression. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn These sonnets were more personal and less imitative than the Olive sequence, and struck a note which was revived in later French literature by Volney and Chateaubriand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" He was possessed by the spirit of decadence, imitative rather than originating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Other concretions from these beds resemble bunches of corals, tufts of plants, or present various strange imitative forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Chinese the number of imitative sounds is very considerable. Lectures on The Science of Language That speech, however, is an attempt at the imitative and sentimental harmony, and with the judicious he rests its fate. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Here was native talent forming a channel for itself, in which perhaps it had better run freely, exercising originality, than labour with imitative and simious toil at the manufacture of ideal Art-Alepots. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) This play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. Waterloo The cacoëthes scribendi is a disease common, not to imaginative, but to imitative, minds. Methods of Authors To induce a young dog to become thus observant, always let him perceive that you watch a wounded bird with great eagerness; his imitative instinct will soon lead him to do the same. The Dog In this famous stanza the rhythm changes for obvious purposes of imitative representation. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Timotheus cries,” and the descriptive recitative, “Give the Vengeance due to the valiant Crew,” in which Handel employs his imitative powers with consummate effect. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The imitative faculty of boyhood is never more at home than in catching the trick of metrical harmony. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Revolting against the superimposition of parental personality, the more deadening because childhood is imitative, they have begun to hearken to Emerson's counsel to insist upon themselves. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Dogs, as has been already observed, are very imitative; and your standing stock still will, more than anything else, induce him to be patient and immovable at his point. The Dog The result was a great mass of Norman French lyrical poetry, often in intricate forms, and a smaller mass of imitative lyrics in Middle English. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But music the moment it becomes imitative becomes ridiculous; it steps out of the proper limits of the art. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. My life has been mainly an imitative one, and I have more than once seen the inestimable value of "trusting." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Mr. South adds that the imitative power of boys is so strong that the younger ones fall into the habits of the elder ones, and thus make formal teaching about the registers less necessary. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. Dramatic and imitative poetry are not to be allowed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The most familiar instance of imitative magic is the device by means of which an individual hopes to injure or kill an enemy. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance But it should be remembered that what is imitative and false in that aspect may have an essential beauty given by the genius of the composer. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. They are almost as imitative as monkeys, and are all great liars; falsehood is universal and inveterate with men, women, and children. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 A new boy is placed in the middle of the row of choristers, so as to excite his imitative faculty to the utmost. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. "Cale Young Rice is a real poet of genuine and sincere inspiration, never reminiscent or imitative or obvious, but singing from a full heart his keen, meditative songs." Sea Poems Rossetti's poem, Sister Helen, has made this example of imitative magic fairly familiar to those who would probably never otherwise have heard of it. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance But in all imitative art there is an obligation of conformity at least to an ideal type of what is represented. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. It is open to us, therefore, to say that, in this typical case of "imitative" or "mimetic" magic, like is believed to produce like. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion It seems a tribute to that providence which shapes our ends, which continues perfect in tendency however vilely we may overlay its brightness with the rust of our mortal corruption, however imitative we may be. The "Genius" The activity of this period is distinctly imitative. Training the Teacher There are many other curious instances of imitative magic. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance They were just at the age to be imitative, and the example of the veterans around them had a strongly-repressive effect. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign But they are not utterly decadent, and they are by no means purely or merely imitative. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The second class covered ethics and politics, the latter of which was often regarded by Aristotle as including ethics; the third includes the useful and the imitative sciences; the first includes metaphysics and physics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Another will describe the actions of a little girl she saw dressed in her mother's skirt—actions plainly imitative of the mother herself. Training the Teacher Beside that rich creative impulse, that divine imagination of hers, his own appeared as something imitative and secondhand, and his art essentially degraded. The Return of the Prodigal Absurd lattice-work, decorative brackets, bronze armorial medallions, and gas lanterns and standards, form a combination that only the unsettled and imitative art of the ruthless nineteenth century could have put together. Old and New London Volume I Adopting to the full, and something more than the full, the modern doctrine of the all-importance of art, of manner, of style in literature, Mr. Stevenson early made the most elaborate studies in imitative composition. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) This cheerful vocalization is also instinctive, in all probability, since the baby makes it before he shows any signs of responding imitatively to the voices of other people. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life In the hearts of all comers, is stirred the imitative spirit of rivalry. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century The chief merit of the system was that it developed the memory and the imitative faculty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Later he tends to a greater breadth of treatment in line, and a less imitative treatment of physical form. Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings Men could hardly sing for remembering, or, at least, without remembering, what others had sung before them, and became either slavishly imitative or wilfully recalcitrant to imitation. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The child's response to this class of toys is imitative. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Men and women, are only children of a larger growth, they are imitative creatures with a natural instinct to choose other, higher, and better lives as models. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century But who would suspect a lad of such a formal sense—even if it is only imitative—of such clear development, such climaxes, and such a capital coda! Ivory Apes and Peacocks In this respect, as well as in lack of humor, lack of development of character, and in other ways less easy to grasp, Shakespeare is here distinctly imitative of Marlowe's method in plays like Tamburlaine. An Introduction to Shakespeare The "model town," as was the case with imitative towns, proved to be a cunning device with two barbs. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times The adjacent forest was vocal with the songs of birds, chief of which were the chattering notes of a species of mockingbird, whose imitative efforts afforded abundant merriment. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 Another advocate on the same side, in the United States, has made much of the supposed dependence of this author on his models, and classed him among writers whose inspiration is imitative and second-hand. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Besides, substituting Rip for Rin seemed too openly imitative and it didn't begin to solve what prompted the naming of the family pet. The Land of Look Behind For a time it seemed to her that these brave consolations were solutions, and she was stirred by an imitative passion. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Emphasis in narrative may also be attained by imitative movement. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews But the imitative architecture introduced first in the fifteenth century, and practised ever since, was neither good nor natural. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Now the noblest art is an exact unison of the abstract value, with the imitative power, of forms and colors. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), If it did, it would not bring it within the sphere of our properly 297 imitative ornamentation. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Here again the ward amazed Mr. Crane, for she had ready a definite plan of her own—a small plan to be sure and imitative, but a plan. Clark's Field Your imitative proclivities are prominent in the chapter headed 'A Few Specimens of Humanity.' Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It The mocking song is imitative of the notes of all the birds of field, forest, and garden, broken into fragments. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 The artistic exposition, as such, will, by its completeness, produce admiration; but the didactic, on the contrary, will, through its perfect adaptation, call out the imitative instinct, the power of new creation. Pedagogics as a System I shall explain this exception presently, in speaking of imitative architecture. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) "My Favorite Amateur" is a good specimen of light, imitative verse. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 An occasional example is easily recognized as imitative. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 Burns is the very type of a prime force in letters: he was of all men the most imitative. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 All these instances corroborate the statement that, in general, composers were influenced by external phenomena and that their program music was of an imitative and often frankly literal kind. Music: An Art and a Language In Assyrian sculpture we have very curious conventionally imitative representations of water. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Certain critics have regarded his efforts as too obviously imitative of a style that has long been discredited. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Painted figures are both geometric and imitative, the two forms blending imperceptibly. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 The naturalistic are those which are borrowed from natural forms, and are either only imitative, or else convey some hidden meaning. Needlework As Art For, at any rate, by these systematic, imitative repetitions they had secured the first requisite of all music, coherence. Music: An Art and a Language Do not expect of him, at his age, imitative and theatrical music. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts There is no question that they were considerably attracted by it, but its sway was, I think, never strong enough to produce mere imitative art. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Both geometric and imitative elements abound and are blended in perfectly graded series. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 The imitative tendency, as existing in all human minds, cannot be ignored or despised. Needlework As Art But there is also much subtly used polyphony, i.e., delightful phrases in inner198 voices and imitative effects between the different parts. Music: An Art and a Language Into a literature that was timid, imitative, conventional, he fell like leviathan into a duck-pond, and the commotion and consternation he created there have not yet subsided. Whitman A Study There is something ridiculously petty and imitative about youth, something too, naïvely noble and adventurous. The Passionate Friends The following examples depart still further from nature, approaching the border line between the distinctly imitative and the purely conventional or geometric phases. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 But I have heard a more tragic story of the imitative genius of these animals. The History of Sandford and Merton It has not become imitative, utilitarian or bound by arbitrary conventions. Music: An Art and a Language America, so bold and original and independent in the world of practical politics and material endeavor, is, in spiritual and imaginative regions, timid, conforming, imitative. Whitman A Study They are exceedingly clever and imitative, and even show much ability in many occupations and mental exercises; but they are apt to be superficial, incorrect, indifferent to results, slothful and lacking in concentration of mind. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century All creatures are imitative, and man himself not the least so. Ways of Nature The effect of intarsia has been sought by various imitative processes, some of which are indistinguishable from it except by close inspection. Intarsia and Marquetry We are now carried onward through a series of passages, with pungent dissonances and imitative phrases, to a fortissimo dominant chord; thence through a descending cadenza-like passage we are whirled back to the Recapitulation. Music: An Art and a Language Things are done hastily, and without just measure or proportion; the imitative talent of the Russian does not seem to carry him quite far enough. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Emphasis by Imitative Movement.––Emphasis in narrative may also be attained by imitative movement. A Manual of the Art of Fiction The young are, of course, more imitative than the old. Ways of Nature It was singular, moreover, how the imitative faculty gained strength among us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The third and last refrain is a complete restatement of the original canon and closes in A major with a still more brilliant imitative treatment of the passage formerly in the dominant. Music: An Art and a Language These painters are more than merely imitative; they are also typical. The Venetian School of Painting Braga has noted five stages of development in Jo�o de Deus's artistic life—the imitative, the idyllic, the lyric, the pessimistic and the devout phases. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" In the works of almost all the greatest masters there are portions which are explanatory rather than representative, and typical rather than imitative; nor could these be parted with but at infinite loss. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Its power, limited in the intellectual order to the imitative passions, is in that of the imagination unlimited. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 In measure 140 the development proper is resumed; based, at first, on some modulatory and imitative treatment of the first theme and followed by two ff sostenuto announcements of the jubilant second theme. Music: An Art and a Language Originating in a correct idea of certain effects of light, the most absurd exaggerations may become accepted as beautiful and natural by an imitative public devoid of personal judgment, by the aid of suggestion. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Phlegmatic and matter-of-fact by nature, exact and careful in practical matters, and to a high degree imitative and industrious, the Chinese are singularly devoid of imagination and indisposed to philosophy. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems He must be a very unskilful composer who could not catch the power of imitative harmony from these lines! The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir No creature under heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its early life. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings This expansion is brought about by an imitative treatment of the fifth measure and is a convincing example of the flexible phraseology so prominent a feature in Mozart's style. Music: An Art and a Language True to her imitative instincts, Audrey could be frank with the frank. Audrey Craven Doubtless he had developed his Weltschmerz mechanically, imitatively, at so many marks or lire an hour. The Dominant Strain There is, in imitative harmony, an act of expressing a slow and difficult movement by adding to 116 the usual number of pauses in a verse. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir As the year advanced Sunna’s letters grew bright and more and more like her, and she described with admirable imitative piquancy the literary atmosphere and conversation which is Edinburgh’s native air. An Orkney Maid Provincialism": "Local spirit, local pride, provincial independence, influence the individual man precisely because they appeal to his imitative tendencies. The Farmer and His Community Children are always imitative, and people are only children of a larger growth. Rural Life and the Rural School The audiences were objective also and their enthusiasm may have been aroused by merely the imitative aspects of music as Avison called them. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning These figures plainly declare their origin; and others, equally imitative, might be pointed out in the same idyllium. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir Familiar with the deceptive artifices, practised to allure game to the hunter, he was quickly alive to the fact, that they were the imitative cries of savages in quest of provisions. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Children, being strongly imitative, are best taught by example. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society These are closely modelled on Theocritus, and have all the weaknesses of imitative poetry. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Even the babies lisped and gurgled their merry, imitative “’Scuse me’s,” though with no thought of any attention being paid them. Divided Skates The people discover no want of genius to conceive, nor of dexterity to execute; and their imitative powers have always been acknowledged to be very great. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton This is the case in many of the imitative arts. Practical Education, Volume II Children are naturally imitative, hence the value of example over precept. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society They require to have things which exercise their senses or their imagination, their imitative, and inventive powers. Practical Education, Volume I Since then occasional organizations of imitative origin had risen for a time and fallen rapidly into decay, but these were all gangs of predatory activity and outrage. The Roof Tree An imitative mound of a gigantic serpent swallowing an egg, has been discovered in one of the forest counties of Ohio, while I have been engaged in penning these remarks. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 Children are imitative animals, and they are peculiarly disposed to imitate the language, manners, and gestures, of those with whom they live, and to whom they look up with admiration. Practical Education, Volume II Early Italian art rose thus by regular steps, from the helpless, traditional, imitative work of the Romanesque and Byzantine artists to its highest development. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome Some English critics, judging him by principles of literary art, have said that his best work is in many places of slovenly construction, deficient in dramatic power, and imitative in expression. Australian Writers I reflected that the Chinese are only an imitative race, and wholly lacking in original perception. The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories Thus, the unvarying characteristic of every social fact whatsoever is that it is imitative. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Again, the ape is imitative in a high degree. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Example arouses a stimulus towards imitative action, whilst, in countless cases, the listener has no inclination whatever to do what he is merely told. The Sexual Life of the Child It is in the country that the colonial dialect—if speech so largely imitative can yet be called a dialect—is most heard. Australian Writers He takes up, with leathern lungs, the howl of the Lakers, and his imitative bray is louder than the original, "in linked sweetness long drawn out." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 By adopting the theory of imitative spread, all linguistic changes may be viewed as one homogeneous whole. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Our children see this and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The remarkable patience and imitative skill of the Chinese enables them to produce very choice goods in these lines of art. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The culture of the place was, no doubt, self-contained; it did not aim at enriching the outer world, which it despised; its literary productions were imitative, the work of dilettanti and decadents. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. The extraordinary imitative talent which his artistic career had been one long struggle to disguise, was for once to be allowed full play. The Invader A Novel Even an army in battle may become, either through enthusiasm or through fear, a group in which all individuality is lost and everyone is forced by imitative impulses to fight or escape. Introduction to the Science of Sociology They imitate him in every thing, as far as their imitative faculties, which are very strong, will carry them. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject So intelligent and imitative a race will not fail to acquire this simple principle of art and nature; the only mystery seems to be how it has so long escaped them. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months What value is there in an analogy between experimental sciences and imitative arts? English: Composition and Literature Language is the result of education, of the imitative faculty of man. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 The psychophysical experiment leaves no doubt that this imitative response releases the sources of strongest energy in the mental mechanism. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Analogy would lead us to think that these figures must at one time have been more directly imitative. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The work of these artists was great because it was not imitative and because it stretched toward an unending and ideal future. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Despite the popular impression that music is imitative in the sense of being able to reproduce different pictures and different emotions, it is really very far from it. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Whether the rock goat, the filthy animal to which we have before adverted, or the tobacco worm, first taught imitative man to masticate tobacco, we are ignorant. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 He learns by imitation; but it is only because he has already some rudimentary ability to make such simple figures as pothooks that the imitative process can get a start. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Fresco was probably little employed by the ancients for works of imitative art, but it appears to have been the ordinary method of simply coloring walls, especially amongst the Romans. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life When some influential critic snarls, all the imitative inferior critics take the same tone. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The word is imitative of a parrot's cry. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia If you were really sorry that you had been playing the imitative monkey you would pitch the antics overboard.” Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop It is fortunate for the theory of art that the importance of the imitative functions has thus been simultaneously acknowledged in various departments of science. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The artistic instinct is of all ages and of all climes; it springs up naturally in all countries, and takes its origin alike everywhere in the imitative faculty of man. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Their daily life was together now, and with the imitative power strong in all children and dominant in him, he copied the Badger's growls, snarls, and purrs. Wild Animals at Home Just as the leaf-insect is imitative of a leaf, and the staff insect of a twig, so here is a fish like a bunch of seaweed. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia A sensitive ear had given her admirable imitative powers in versification, and her father, before dissipation had dulled his intellect, had been a man of rare cultivation and literary taste. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Although no adult has any need to resort to external imitation in order to comprehend new impressions, it is still only natural that in a pathological condition he should relapse into the primitive imitative reaction. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Sculpture, like architecture and painting, indeed all art, had an indigenous and independent evolution in all countries, all these arts springing up naturally, and taking their origin alike everywhere in the imitative faculty of man. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life These Chinese are truly said to be an imitative people. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas The belief of sailors that wind may be called up by whistling rests on a process of imitative magic that may be connected with an early cult. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The satirist of the seventeen-sixties who repeats the ideas and styles of Butler, Dryden, Swift, Gay, and Pope seems not only imitative but out-of-touch with the world around him. The Methodist A Poem "The unvarying characteristic of every social fact whatsoever is that it is imitative, and this characteristic belongs exclusively to social facts." Introduction to the Science of Sociology Ikonographic, representational, or imitative hieroglyphics, are those that present the images of the things expressed, as the sun's disk to signify the sun, the crescent to signify the moon. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life No argument is needed to prove that man is essentially an imitative animal. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 The law is sometimes natural, as in imitative processes, sometimes religious, as when blood is employed or the agency of religious official persons is called in. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV As a poet he is imitative: reminiscences of Quintana are noticeable in his patriotic songs, of Zorrilla in his historical ballads, of Byron in his lyrical poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The pronunciation of words and their combination into whole phrases he acquired in the same imitative way. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The French name for backgammon is trictrac, imitative of the rattle of the dice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" By imitative methods the white man survives the awful cold and the pitiless conditions. Colorado Jim The acts appear to be simply procedures of imitative magic, customs sanctified by long usage. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The old-time patterns are for the most part simple geometrical figures, which are decorative and emblematic rather than imitative. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American We have then first to discuss the nature of the imitative impulse—the impulse to perform an action which arises from the perception of it as performed by another. Introduction to the Science of Sociology "I could copy Chinese, monsieur; caligraphy, like drawing, is an imitative art." The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental “Dumb Crambo” was another favorite, and one in which my father’s great imitative ability showed finely. My Father as I Recall Him The imitative or "illusionist" picture pleads its case most plausibly. The Enjoyment of Art |
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