mimesis

Example Sentences

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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

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

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017

Their imitation of those desires, which he termed mimesis, is imitated by others in turn, leading to escalating and often destructive competition.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

The word mimesis means the action or doing of a person called a mime.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen