Imitations

Imitations Taking advantage of an initial shortage of Cubes, many imitations and variations appeared, many of which may have violated one or more patents.

But the longer-run prospects for economic growth do look better now than they did before computers began doing such good imitations of people.

Imitations of these throwback butterfly clips are available all over the internet, but these pastel beauties are the real deal.

In time, experimentation did expand the toolbox; plant-based burgers and sausages went from being lentil-based fiber pucks to pretty good imitations of the real thing.

There were mafia movies, a riff on “Mortal Kombat” — basically, imitations of existing films.

These classics of design at $2,870 each, however, a closer inspection revealed they were in fact imitations, albeit quality ones.

These insipid musical theatre imitations are peppered throughout simply to give Fletcher alone (the original “Bad” Cinderella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s doomed production) a chance to show off her undeniably strong voice.

As a result, needless enhancements tend to render our superstars pale imitations of their formerly exquisite selves, sucking out the character and charm from their rugged good looks.

Deepfake, a subset of AI, can produce false image or video imitations that replicate someone's voice or character.

I’ll probably never confiscate a phone again, or discover a secret second phone and wearily confiscate that too, or empty the wastepaper basket to find it full of unnervingly good imitations of my signature.

MLA Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster says she would feel more secure as an artist if there were a federal law in place protecting Inuit art from mass-produced imitations that can devalue the real thing.

Those two get me doing cheap imitations, or just being intimidated away from the page.

Many of the comics Binder interviews, female and male, do their vocal imitations of her.

Tunde told us: “My love for writing started with prose, making sorry imitations of any book I enjoyed in order to somehow prolong the experience that the book had given me.

I wrote a couple other imitations like that into the book, but they didn’t survive.

Not to mention that more lives are threatened by this careless “We are gods” attitude, than those theoretically saved by their sad super-hero imitations.

That’s the other thing a new musical should not do: Laugh at songs from the 1970s when Iconis’ songs are weak imitations of Isaac Hayes and J.J. Johnson’s score from “Shaft,” circa 1971.

The takeaway for automated management and its imitations is along a similar vein to AI in any other position – it simply lacks the human touch.

And which one’s supposed upgrades are merely cheap imitations?

But with smaller, more nuanced borrowings, imitations, influences, writers of fiction can be more coy, less willing to own up to their debts, than other artists.