Merely imitating others is not enough, even if one imitates the "correct" actions and thoughts.

During the early decades of the 1900s, other American architects were merely imitating European styles.

Yet the music, which captures the flavor of lurid Victorian street ballads without ever merely imitating them, gets under your skin and stays there.

The poet made new things - brought to life a new world - while the artist merely imitated.

Now, the first player merely imitates the second player's moves in the opposite row.

Yet to merely imitate them is to reduce the creative process to a set of formulas.

Their rudimentary internal organs merely imitated natural function to enhance the overall realistic aspect.

Kabasele and his colleagues did not merely imitate Latin music.

Early vessels of this style merely imitated the red-figure technique.

But figures released last week by the Census Bureau suggest that art was merely imitating life.