imitative

As with any form of social behavior, there will always be an imitative factor.

Do we not regard all music as representative and imitative?

It is simply imitative of sounds or suggests something that makes a sound.

It was the type of imitative action for which Japanese were noted.

Between my wife and me there's an occasional imitative code word.

The imitative writing between the instruments is that of a master.

By this time it had become an imitative hand, in which there was generally no room for spontaneous development.

Partly that is because their imitative Western style hurts them.

"It is an empathic, imitative response that even little children have."

But many others are simply imitative of better plays.

Further than this retrogressive and imitative movement he never seemed to go.

He has formed his mind on another's; but the imitative faculty is not the productive.

Or those imitative pop acts whose highest goal is to sound like someone else.

And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments.

The reality is that they're very imitative at that age.

Is this imitative style a game between the two men or are there forgeries even here?

The other parts play more complex lines, often in imitative counterpoint.

We find the same clear strokes in the imitative response of the basses.

As a result, many literary works tended to be rather imitative of the European examples.

The form looks similar; the language is imitative; the meaning is foreign.

Yet Clarke's book is far more than imitative fan indulgence.

The imitative artist will be in a brilliant state of intelligence about his own creations?

But there's nothing routine, facile or imitative about his painting.

That would make me imitative and derivative, instead of original."

It was also thought to be heavily imitative of the film Gladiator (2000).