Its a morpho, and its wings transform from a brilliant blue in the early morning to black and white at night, when it imitates an owl. |
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To escape his aesthetic dilemma, Ambrose must find a form that neither repudiates the past nor slavishly imitates it. |
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When recalling the conversation, she imitates his voice with a slow, rocking-chair-like southern accent. |
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Their perspectival rooflines meet in a v-shape that imitates the opening of a book. |
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The allegorist assumes that, when virtue imitates vice at the moment of attack, it can, by that very isomorphic imitation, destroy its opposite. |
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The weakest cuts on the album are the ones in which the singer imitates Sinatra most closely. |
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The grain-painted case imitates mahogany and ebony inlay, and the face is decorated with Masonic imagery. |
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Deriving from his specialised knowledge of optometry, this cylindrical lens imitates what happens in astigmatism. |
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This nanomaterial imitates the external wrapping of the AIDS virus and it can potentially be used to inhibit its entering the cell. |
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Because hysteria has no organic causes, the hysteric imitates the lesions of other illnesses. |
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St Stephen is also known as the protomartyr, the first martyr who imitates most closely the death of Jesus. |
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In the twelfth place, the bishop puts on the Pall, to show himself that he imitates Christ, Who bare our sicknesses. |
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It imitates the effects of insulin and boosts insulin release from the pancreas. |
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They learn from doing, from a simulated experience that very closely imitates real life scenarios. |
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I caught one of my biggest after-dark fish at this spot late one night on a fly that imitates a pale evening dun. |
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This instrument, which imitates the cello, was specially created for David Bowie. |
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The method described here imitates the pick-a-pattern procedure developed by Martin Probert. |
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The core looks like a huge glass construction yet it is not made of glass but simply imitates it. |
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Passport to the Internet is a great interactive program that imitates real life scenarios that students encounter daily while using the internet. |
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Nice is to be heard and it to be seen how Kiri imitates the crows in the windowsill and how she is angry at a broomstick. |
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Nobody wants a federal European state which imitates the American, German or Swiss constitution. |
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The colourful decoration of the horseman on this ceramic bowl imitates a type of ceramic that originated in Iran. |
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The special construction imitates the way that a healthy, mobile person changes position in bed. |
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This is a luxury but practical object, used as tableware as a substitute for metal objects, which it imitates in its design. |
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The bottle, printed on its sides, imitates an aerosol spray can in its design. |
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Sept. 11 was not a movie, but it looked like one: proof that reality now imitates virtual reality or that the simulacrum precedes reality. |
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She imitates his nasal hee-haw very loudly and we look on, aghast. |
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I was so happy when I learnt the first kora lesson, the 'Kélé Faba', a rhythm that imitates the hooves of the chief's horse. |
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Biomimicry studies nature's best ideas and imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. |
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It is one of the only times I can think of when life imitates art to the very bleeding edge of an aluminum shank. |
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If the water is clear enough, try fly fishing for them with any fly that imitates something small and silvery like an elver or sand eel or small fish. |
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The collection today has eight vases executed by the Baroviers in calcedonio glass, which imitates chalcedony, banded agate, and other semiprecious stones. |
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Coloured glazes fill small pattern fields formed by thin strips of clay. This technique is called cuenca o arista and imitates tile mosaic. |
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So football imitates life and the healthiest managerial marriages are those that stick together in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer. |
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But sometimes, when art imitates life, the off-screen persona of an actor can lend an extra layer to a performance. |
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Science imitates nature as researchers dream up robotic dogs, cheetahs, sharks and even cockroaches. |
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Life seldom imitates art, and the struggle to achieve votes for women was as fraught with internal factionalism and personal rivalries as any other political movement. |
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True to the Japanese tradition, the elements mimic nature: raked gravel imitates flowing water, the large boulders are islands in the river. |
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SalaUno is building a business model that imitates someone else's innovation and translates it to a new country. |
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If so, what difference might that make to the rest of the world? Life imitates Goldman SachsThe BRICs matter because of their economic weight. |
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We also have a responsibility for how the rest of the world imitates our practices. |
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It imitates the natural movement of the knee in push-up and extension and aligns automatically with the shinbone for a correct lace. |
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This creates a semi-solid growth medium for the bacteria, which imitates its natural environment within a human or animal host. |
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This setting of the bellows imitates the ancient way of the organ wind system construction and adds to the aliveness of the pipe sound due to small instabilities generated in the wind ways when under heavier load. |
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The left eye of the dial imitates a rev counter in a Formula 1 cockpit. |
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The reformed pay-as-you-go public pension system is the so-called notional defined contribution scheme that imitates the accrued assets in individual investment pension accounts. |
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The second movement entitled Sérénade, is appropriately imbued with playfulness: the cello imitates a guitar, mandolin, flute and tambourine, perhaps suggesting Pierrot's desperate efforts to seduce his beloved. |
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Whether it means as in the Ion that gods inspire poetry, or as in Republic 10 that imitative poetry imitates appearance alone, ignorance matters less than the implications drawn from it. |
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He imitates the hand-made lace by a system of interlacements. |
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It simply imitates nature, using the same natural trapping mechanisms that have kept large stores of CO2 and other gases underground for millions of years. |
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This top of the range container imitates the boxes of Versailles Orangery. |
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Hence, we allow, as legal causes, only civil death, which imitates natural death, and the crimes or offences of which one spouse may accuse the other. |
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This pair of snowshoes, probably made by the Hurons of Wendake, nevertheless imitates the style of the traditional snowshoes of the Eastern Woodland Iroquois. |
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This cement garden element imitates tree trunks perfectly. |
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The performer imitates sounds of nature, simultaneously emitting two distinct vocal sounds: along with a continuous drone, the singer produces a melody of harmonics. |
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His introduction imitates the work of Orosius, and his title is an echo of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica. |
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It is likely to be early work, indebted to the author's rhetorical training, since its style imitates that of the foremost Roman orator Cicero. |
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For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language. |
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The Testament of Love imitates, borrows from, and thus resembles Usk's contemporary, Chaucer. |
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Thermography, which imitates engraving, costs far less because it employs no dies or plates. |
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This game of Cheetah, Cheetal gets its name from these animals, it is an active chase-and-tag game that imitates the hunt. |
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Rather than objectifying and degrading Sarty, this dispassionate narrative imitates nightmare's disembodiment and disorientation. |
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To successfully employ a metrical stanza that imitates the anustubh form requires a poetic skillfulness, or art, that, frankly, few Sanskritists possess. |
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He does a hang-jawed-cretin routine, and, in the best sequence, he imitates Caine's suavo act, caressing a flower, pouring a glass of champagne and holding it up to the moon. |
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Sea ice imitates the shoreline along the Kamchatka Peninsula. |
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During religious ceremonies, many adherents choose to wear clothing that imitates the styles of dress worn in Iron Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe. |
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Deny strenuously that neoclassical theory slavishly imitates physics. |
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Its windy voicing imitates the soft but expulsive force of song. |
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