imitativeness

The trouble appears to arise from the imitativeness of the race.

The ready imitativeness of a unified following is both an advantage and a peril to a mass movement.

The imitativeness of its members gives a thoroughly unified group great flexibility and adaptability.

The imitativeness of the oppressed (Blacks and Jews) is notable.

Finally, the lack of self-confidence characteristic of the frustrated also stimulates their imitativeness.

The Japanese excel in imitativeness, but are not as reliable as the Chinese.

Lawson painted in a certain way because it was his nature to, and through the imitativeness of a student sensitive to every influence, there pierced individuality.

The work of later decades is tinged with a certain imitativeness of the earlier stories, but even a reduced Borges is fascinating.

All active mass movements have that unabashed imitativeness which we have come to as- sociate with the Japanese.

The marked imitativeness of primitive people is perhaps due less to their primitiveness than to the fact that they are usually members of compact clans or tribes.

The book was praised for its imitativeness and humour, but was also criticised for its underdeveloped plot and somewhat abrupt ending.

It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways, and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work.

Corder's skull was asserted to be profoundly developed in the areas of "secretiveness, acquisitiveness, destructiveness, philoprogenitiveness, and imitativeness" with little evidence of "benevolence or veneration".

Looking next at Painting, we find that we have to boast of progress only in the ratio of the inferior imitativeness of Painting, when compared with Sculpture.

The New York Times reviewer wrote that the play "has an adolescent quality, suggestive of a playwright still struggling to emerge from studied imitativeness into her own mature voice".

With the monkey-like imitativeness of the negro she had copied the manners of white people while she lived among them, and had dropped them with equal facility when they ceased to serve a purpose.

For this reason- and for this reason only- the arts of Sculpture, Painting, and the Drama have not advanced- or have advanced feebly, and inversely in the ratio of their imitativeness.

"Crumbs," which was commissioned by Second Stage as part of a program aimed at teen-age audiences, in itself has an adolescent quality, suggestive of a playwright still struggling to emerge from studied imitativeness into her own mature voice.

Poetry dwells on the pedantry, imitativeness, adulation, affectation and indecency of poets-also their poverty, and the neglect with which they were treated; and there is a very vigorous sortie against oppressive governors and aristocrats.

Most of the people surrounding him are sceptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice: in that case he will have abandoned the form of nationalism that lies nearest to hand without getting any closer to a genuinely internationalist outlook.