mimetically

What is mimetically learned can change again in response to later references and stimuli.

They also mimetically savored invisible foods and took real bites out of one another.

Several different methodologies support Wulf's theory that cultural life largely takes place mimetically.

Instead, the woman was stretched on the ground and other members of her community mimetically tore out her heart in a human sacrifice.

Experiences of touching, smelling, tasting are also mimetically processed.

For example, if children mimetically relate to a teacher that they really like, these children do not become like their role model.

For him, opera was born of sacrificial ritual and takes its life from that least realistic, least mimetically human art, music.

"Phantom 309" mimetically depicted a hitchhiker picked up by a ghostly truck driver.

Outside the restaurant, a mimetically depicted jerky bus trip became a joy ride for a pickpocket.

Mimetically obtained knowledge is not clearly definable knowledge.

The music, subordinated to the action, accentuated the narrative mimetically, draping it in mood and colors.

So, a paroxysm of violence would tend to focus on an arbitrary victim and a unanimous antipathy would, mimetically, grow against him.

During the mad scene, Ms. Ferri mimetically suggested that Giselle was pulling herself inward to escape from the world.

In the ocean, the leafy sea dragon sways mimetically, like the seaweeds amongst which it rests, as if rippled by wind or water currents.

The goddess held fronds, symbolizing flaming torches, stood on a small stool and mimetically enacted a ritual bath of purification.

But just as one expected him to write an ode to country joys, he mimetically swatted at pesky invisible bugs and stepped a foot into nasty muck.

Wearing simple, weathered-looking costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, they bent toward the earth, mimetically creating the impression that they were performing agricultural chores like planting seeds.

Louise spends a lot of time talking about what a down-to-earth, ordinary gal Patsy indeed is, but Ms. Palazola's mimetically exact interpretation never registers as fully human.

"Bout" began with Ruben Ornelas and Mr. Glassman seated at a table drinking beer and mimetically progressing from friendly conversation to outright boasting.

In only a brief time, she managed to imitate an elevator, mimetically respond to statements in an English phrase book for foreign speakers and place a box over her head in despair.

And in "Mayweed," another work from 1980, dancers conversed mimetically with eccentric but lively arm gestures and nudged one another in a playfully conspiratorial fashion like children sharing secrets.

In this parody of modern dance's greatest pioneer, a dancer playing Isadora Duncan is required to gallop madly about with an American flag and then mimetically appear to stitch stars on it.

The shaman changes his voice mimetically to represent different persons, gods, and animals while his music and dance change to show his progress in the spirit world and his different spiritual interactions.

With choreography, direction, set design and soundtrack by Tony Brown and Kari Margolis, the production took place in an enormous bed and mimetically depicted some of the things that people could do there.

A new solo, "Bip Remembers," had its somber moments, as Bip mimetically looked back upon his life and our own century, gesturally recalling war and the gesticulations of a Hitler-like demagogue.