During the 1960s, he demonstrated that dolphins could produce sounds in air that seemed to be direct and relevant imitations of human speech patterns.

The music was traditionalist but not simply nostalgic, allusive without direct imitation; it had a sense of mystery.

The various expressions of liberal fury are a direct imitation of what the right has been doing for more than a decade.

This style is a direct imitation of drum and bugle corps.

Without being a direct imitation, Pasadena City Hall is related to them all.

Mozart responded first with rather direct imitations, writing fugues and suites in the style of his models.

The direct imitations of natural sounds, mostly of nocturnal animals.

Generally, direct imitation is not as common, but there are examples.

After 1850, Hunt and Millais moved away from direct imitation of medieval art.

It is believed that in these cases there is a direct imitation of Islamic architecture.