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

Being an artist who’s interested in mimesis and the new stuff, what are the tools available to the artist now?

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016

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

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