mimesis

Example Sentences

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I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

His objective, it seemed, was to abandon mimesis, the depiction of people and things.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

In the same essay, Chaudhuri claimed it was time for the “postmodernist Indian English novel” to reject “a mimesis of form, where the largeness of the book allegorizes the largeness of the country it represents.”

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2016

Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey