How else would someone manage such a perfect imitation?

To his ear, it was a perfect imitation of the wolves.

It was a perfect imitation made of glass, necessarily light, to be lifted by the dummy hand.

She paused, and in perfect imitation of him, said, "I am the logical choice."

In the end, the only system that works well, across the board, is the one that involves perfect imitation.

Sure, they might have done all this just to make her a perfect imitation, but if so, they had to mess with my mind, too.

She stared back and saw he was telling the truth, or doing a perfect imitation.

His voice had been almost a perfect imitation of the chief of police.

One parrot was doing a perfect imitation of a ringing telephone.

A perfect imitation of innocence would never be convincing, here.