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
Her newest project explores mimesis, or lifelike replication, in both 15th-century paintings and synthetic biology.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016
His objective, it seemed, was to abandon mimesis, the depiction of people and things.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016
With mimesis above all, it is wise, when the law says that a thing is black, first to enquire whether it does not happen to be white.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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