mimetic

Example Sentences

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The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.

From New York Times

At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.

From Salon

But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.

From Washington Post

The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics.

From Los Angeles Times

It does, though, probe some fascinating ideas, like the peculiar ownership that fans feel toward a team and its players — a level of mimetic engagement that theater rarely achieves, Broadway musicals excepted.

From New York Times