Adjective : mimetic gestures. From Dictionary.com.
He was a West Pointer, and, mimetically, a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
People who write mimetically are interested in explaining the world as it is. From Wordnik.com. [You can call me... The Doctor] Reference
What else obviously isn't real despite being presented mimetically as being real as part of the fun?. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Bio-identical estradiol and progesterone dosed bio-mimetically should successfully restore lost youth in the brain. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details] Reference
Criticism conceptually articulates the contributions toward an expanded conceptuality that art has generated mimetically, nondiscursively. From Wordnik.com. [Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics] Reference
And poetry can be political precisely because it enjoins pleasure, and subverts the mimetically accelerating hostility of totalizing systems. From Wordnik.com. [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference
Such a poem was intended to display deep love and fortitude, with control and resignation mimetically conveyed by lucid, balanced syntax uncontorted by demands of rhyme or metre (11). From Wordnik.com. [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference
To further this theory we might consider that we ourselves were mimetically motivated to label her Sissy French-fry after we consumed a quality happy meal and got our Pirates of the Caribbean toy. From Wordnik.com. ['Lost Experience': Who is Rachel Blake? | EW.com] Reference
Oh, and by “mimetically repeat,” I mean continue to use without thinking them through or interrogating their usefulness and their implications — that is, just mimicking them from book to book. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » A Reader in the Middle » Print] Reference
One thus finds in Stubbs's portrait of the Pocklington family that the foundational relationship of husband and wife is triangulated and emblematized by the horse, to whom Mrs. Pocklington gives her hand and affections, and beside which the captain stands, legs mimetically poised like the animal's own. From Wordnik.com. ['Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806] Reference
Going back to the early time when the deeds of the god-king, chanted and mimetically represented in dances round his altar, were further narrated in picture-writings on the walls of temples and palaces, and so constituted a rude literature, we might trace the development of. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
I’m talking in huge absrtactions here, I realise, but what I’m driving at or circling round, I think, is the idea that the way magic realism argues for those great ineffables is precisely to engage with a paradoxical project of mimetically representing them. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Pointer, and, mimetically, a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
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