Mimicking

The poor wee soul is clearly trying to learn, he even took Sarah to see Macbeth so he could learn what he's doing wrong and begin mimicking the good guys for a change. ❋ Newmania (2008)

At any rate, the response to the followup question clarified the position (again mimicking your version). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Combine that with talk of building “a new paradigm … a new wave” and I’m going to write you off as immature and more interested in mimicking the successes of others who come before you than in showing me what makes * you* unique. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You've been identified with the idea of mimicking volcanic explosions to partially block the sun's rays and thus mitigate global warming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is broken into many easily digestible chapters with titles mimicking movies or television shows such as "Father Knows Best," "The Year of Living Dangerously (with Indonesia)" or "Citizen Lee." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I love that someone hates Bill O'Reilly so much that he has built an entire show, an entire on-screen persona, around the idea of mimicking and mocking that blowhard. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We wanted a poster that reflects that, and I love the idea of mimicking the Indiana Jones poster, with all the people around it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She said that she rejected the use of realism for its own sake (“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?” she asked rhetorically) as well as the idea of mimicking the styles of others (“Rather than spend my life on imitations, I would not paint at all,” she said). ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)

The arrangement has a long vamp out, Harry's vocal dropping out for several minutes, letting the band run with the groove, perhaps with the idea of mimicking the length of many disco hits of the day with the backing vocals and organ carrying the melody as the track clocks in at nearly ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I really like the idea of mimicking the sounds around us and saying, 'We're from Venice,'" he continues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In an effort to highlight the utter hypocrisy of the chamber's stance against climate legislation, Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men, a "culture-jamming" collective that's made its name mimicking high-profile politicians and corporate leaders, impersonated a U.S. Chamber of Commerce spokesman on Monday, Nov. 2. ❋ Emily Gleason (2009)

In a genre plagued by fussy mannerisms and mimicking, that is the most one can ask for. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As grim as the market looks, fund companies are crafting ETFs that push into new investment territory, such as mimicking hedge funds and volatility indexes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, there's a conscious, self-conscious kind of mimicking of Kennedy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sophisticated also avoids the problem of "mimicking", in much the same way as it avoids Martin's counterexamples to ❋ Fara, Michael (2006)

But occasionally a variation may occur which has special advantageous characters of its own (such as mimicking a protected species), and then this variation will maintain itself by selection. ❋ Marchant, James (1916)

Other types of geoengineering, such as mimicking volcanoes by using aircraft to spray reflective sulphate particles in the stratosphere, would have much longer effects on weather patterns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Look] that mimicking bush [looks like] those [metal boxes] ❋ Angie1987 (2018)

"Don't playing your pen while you're [talking to someone]" "But, [everybody else] is doing it in the class?" "You're [blind mimicking]" ❋ Blind Mimicking (2009)

[Person]: "[you know] mimicking hero?" Me: "[Yes I] do" ❋ (2021)