Still it would not be fair to speak in these terms of praise without pointing out the transparent imitativeness which is common to all these poems. From Wordnik.com. [Authors and Friends] Reference
Action, imitativeness of liberty of, in early childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Doll, child's care of, an example of imitativeness educative value of. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
From pure imitativeness he jeers at things which in fact he believes in. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
It tallies too well with the charge of imitativeness, if not downright plagiarism, often brought against a new singer. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Many of our birds have been taught to speak the human language, and a few have even acquired this power by imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
Narrowing the process down to impersonation should make clear that Plato finds a Sophist's imitativeness much like a poet's. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Aesthetics] Reference
At the age, then, of two or three the first quality of the child which may arrest our attention is his extreme imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
We may pass from considering the imitativeness of the child to study a second and closely related quality, his suggestibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
His will must set itself against its instinct of imitativeness, and his small house, not yet quite built, must be divided against itself. From Wordnik.com. [Study of Child Life] Reference
The imitativeness of the young child is so great that he will repeat in almost every detail all the actions of his nurse as she carries out the daily routine. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Imitation of models (unlike unconscious, unperceived, spontaneous influences by one society on another) leads to arti - ficiality, feeble imitativeness, degraded art and life. From Wordnik.com. [THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT] Reference
Japanese imitativeness as well as of the fact itself. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
As an extreme case, look for a moment at their imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
The trouble appears to arise from the imitativeness of the race. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
Whatever may be said about his imitativeness, his good spirits were real. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference
It was the very manner to sow seed of imitativeness in the girl, devoted as she was to her father. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
As he had suspected, the business office was afflicted with the twin diseases -- routine and imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Great God Success] Reference
This type, which we have thus reached by our imitativeness, we now have fixed upon us, for better or worse. From Wordnik.com. [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference
But the best of the book is second-rate, vitiated by diffuseness, imitativeness, and the usual sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
Say what you please, and it is easy to say too much, of the imitativeness of American literature as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Among the mass of foreign thought the Japanese imitativeness has caused the nation to adopt, here is one thing which is indigenous. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
The same combination of laziness and imitativeness works toward the regularization of certain verbs that are historically irregular. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb] Reference
We have spoken of three mental effects: the license, the eroticism, and the imitativeness which are stirred up by the dancing movements. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
The monkeys, and especially the anthropoids, are the only beings that approach him in their analytic curiosity and width of imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference
It is just these first instinctive impulses of the girl-child, combined with her imitativeness and wonderful precocity, which make her so fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference
Japanese flexibility, imitativeness, and sensitiveness to environment are to be accounted for by a careful consideration of the national environment and social order. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
Interspersed are sketches of some lighter matters, -- amusing instances of the imitativeness and wrongheadedness of the people, rather than examples of folly and delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
My geographical imitativeness had its full swing. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
General imitativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
'imitativeness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
Instinct, 9 of imitativeness, 32. From Wordnik.com. [Study of Child Life] Reference
How climate, food, ignorance, imitativeness, hypnotism, or passion act. From Wordnik.com. [Voskresenie. English] Reference
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