emulative

Today, America is the creative society, the others, consciously or unconsciously, are emulative.

All this sounds emulative, and there are indeed other publishing houses that consistently publish well.

I have reason to believe that this particular pottery design is itself emulative of the pattern on a fabric, perhaps a hanging tapestry.

IT was a new idea--the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life.

More specifically, he has studied children's and youth's acquisition of adults' concepts, standards, and competencies from social modeling and emulative experiences at home and in school.

Finally Menelek restored quiet by the simple expedient of a frown, whereupon each loyal guest exchanged his mirthful mien for an emulative scowl.

Some critics complained that his sound was still too "derivative" or "emulative", comparing his compositions and arrangements to those of the Bee Gees or the Beatles.

These agoge platoons were regularly exposed to the sight of their elders and the rigors they endured, as a means of rousing their emulative instincts to even greater levels of exertion.

The Bow porcelain factory (active ca 1747-1764, closed 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain.

"The war of all against all," Porter writes, "was socialized into emulative competition. . . . Once harnessed, selfishness worked to the general good, vice became a virtue, and private vices, public benefits."

Like Křesťan, he moved from emulative beginnings to a style that is less indebted to Bluegrass, though his band has always maintained the traditional bluegrass instrumental lineup and a lot of its musical affect.

In his play he provocatively imagines emulative cosmetic surgery taking hold among young women across the country who suddenly begin reconstructing themselves to look like an attractive, polemical right-wing radio host named Lauren Chickering (Olivia Wilde).

Unlike Pilkingtons' benchmarking exercise, which was based on crude physical output measures, RX's emulative benchmarking involved identifying competitive gaps in engineering costs, product quality, product lead times, inventory levels and, most informatively, in routine business administration.

The present interior of the Fatih Mosque is essentially a copy of earlier designs invented by Sinan re-used repeatedly by himself and his successors throughout Istanbul (this technique is emulative of the Hagia Sophia).

And yet, by pure chance of roads and cars, I did happen to hear him the morning after Howard Cosell died, way back when, and was struck by how emotional, how admiring, how emulative, how un-ironicized was his admiration of Cosell.

By temperament I was choleric, and addicted to pleasure and dissipation; my tutors found this last defect most difficult to overcome; happily, they were aided by a love of knowledge inherent in me, an emulative spirit, and a thirst for fame, which disposition it was my father's care to cherish.

The noise of her own needle and thread as she stitched, was infinitely louder in her ears than the stitching of all the six pupils, and of Miss Pupford, and of Miss Pupford's assistant, all stitching away at once on a highly emulative afternoon.