How to Use mimetic in a Sentence

mimetic

adjective

• The natural world and the mimetic urge?) is part and parcel of a deeper aesthetic.
  — Leah Hager Cohen, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• But, where the mature Calvino found a style that was supremely arch, alien, and spare, his more mimetic stories retain the funk of the human.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
• But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• What is travel in the age of Instagram if not mimetic desire with airline miles?
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2022
• There are aspects of mimetic desire that are common to all people.
  — Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• That's not to say that Menzies doesn't continue to explore his mimetic talents, even in roles with... lines.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2019
• See this one on anorexia and obesity, and on mimetic desires.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• Films have often been rupture points for mimetic breakthroughs on the internet.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• This notion of degeneration owes something to Plato, for whom the visible world is a copy of the eternal forms and mimetic art a copy of that copy.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• This makes us easy prey for — perhaps even complicit with — grifters who play off our communal, mimetic desires.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Underneath it all, the mimetic mechanism is whirring, biding its time between crises.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the study, researchers analyzed the anatomy of tiny muscles used to form facial expressions called mimetic muscles.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• For the experiment, the research team quantified how many fast-twitch and slow-twitch fibers wolves and dogs in their mimetic muscles, New Scientist reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• For instance, a mockingbird may begin by mimicking the call of a Northern flicker or a Carolina wren, and then take it up a few notes for a non-mimetic version of that call.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 23 July 2021
• That last phrase hints at something beyond the merely mimetic in his work, as in his 1928 painting From Williamsburg Bridge, where the frieze of mismatched façades evokes a quirky family jostling one another for the attention of the camera.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• Unlike an allusion — a tip of the hat to a previous work — an Easter egg, when found, is an anachronistic disruption, an anti-mimetic breaking of the fourth wall to make room for a joke, clue or grievance.
  — Nick Haramis, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Either combat being known as a mimetic rehash by breaking out of the classic rock mold, or lean even further into their strengths as classic-rock propagandists.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Many different groups are currently making their own versions of these spike-mimetic trimers to test their various vaccine designs.
  — Scientific American, 12 May 2020
• His visual descriptions are mimetic—as if the reader’s eye on the page followed a painter’s brush, the falcon reeling and refracted in sunlight painted by Tintoretto, in falling darkness by Rouault.
  — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• Yet one of the book’s signal triumphs is that Alharthi has constructed her own novelistic form to suit her specific mimetic requirements.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The team also plans to investigate if domestication shaped the mimetic muscles of other mammals, Burrows tells Newsweek.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• In that respect, painters held the mimetic advantage, and a lot of nineteenth-century painting, from Turner and Constable through the Impressionists, tries to capture the momentary and the evanescent, the sense of life suspended in motion.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2017
• The aesthetic identity of the game can be elaborated by collecting fragments or mimetic images.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2011
• Effects of an oral ghrelin mimetic on body composition and clinical outcomes in healthy older adults: a randomized trial.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
• At Stanford, he was heavily influenced by the French philosopher René Girard, whose theory of mimetic desire—of people learning to want the same thing—attempts to explain the origins of social conflict and violence.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Fiction often attempts to capture reality without being coldly mimetic; taxidermy reveals the stakes of that project.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• There is a long-standing argument regarding how far mimetic art ought to go in representing the sometimes dispiriting realities of modern life.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• Perhaps women’s mimetic rivalries are often quieter as a result.
  — Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Here, in addition to O’Brien’s celebrated gifts of lyricism and mimetic precision, is a new, unsettling fabulist vision that suggests Kafka more than Joyce.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• There is no obvious, or mimetic, or representational, or narrative connection between a raga and a time of day or season, as there is, say, between Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and spring, nature, and the countryside.
  — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024