Mimesis ( ( mīmēsis ), from μιμεῖσθαι ( mīmeisthai ), " to imitate ," from μῖμος ( mimos ), " imitator, actor ") is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.

* the act of murdering a person ( such as the ruler of one's country ) who stands in a relationship resembling that of a father

His act usually consisted equally of compact one-or two-liners resembling those of Steven Wright, in addition to longer routines, often with each line as a punchline.

This is an almost flat area ( superficially resembling a tidal flat ) which is flooded or not, depending on TVA's assessment of a proper level for Kentucky Lake, taking into consideration flood control, navigation, electrical power needs, and recreation ( in that order, according to the 1933 act establishing the Authority ).

The Alliance operates a massive fleet of spaceships, resembling huge floating cities, that act as both military and police for the distances between the various planets of the Firefly Universe.

Wars with Tartars and Mongols were a major aspect of Medieval Russian history, but the Russians gained the upper hand long before the 19th Century, and no Tartar Khan at the time of writing was in a position to act as Feofar is described as doing ; depicting late 19th Century Tartars as able to face Russians on anything resembling equal terms is a manifest anachronism.

Sometimes, as in some mantids, the tegmina crossed over the back are not striking, but when suddenly raised, act as a threatening display resembling a pair of eyes.

An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance.

A man who knows that God works through everything cannot sin, because every human act is then the act of God ;

He then proposed the idea that it might be possible to create chemicals that would act as a selective drug that would bind to and kill bacteria without harming the human host.

Old One constructs a seemingly human man, Pham Nuwen, to act as its agent.

These are: ( 1 ) the presence of a living being, human or animal ; ( 2 ) the knowledge that the being is a living being ; ( 3 ) the intent to kill ; ( 4 ) the act of killing by some means ; and ( 5 ) the resulting death.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such-committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle.

Nevertheless, it is held that the sexual act must " retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life ", and the " direct interruption of the generative process already begun " is unlawful.

It is the result of awareness that every human act is the result of the limitations of the world of the actor.

The other Knights are of normal human proportions and act as a chorus, only repeating words and phrases that the head Knight has spoken.

Thought is a mental act that allows human beings to make sense of things in the world, and to represent and interpret them in ways that are significant, or which accord with their needs, attachments, goals, commitments, plans, ends, desires, etc.

President Barack Obama strongly condemned both the Quran burning, calling it an act of " extreme intolerance and bigotry ", and the " outrageous " attacks by protesters, referring to them as " an affront to human decency and dignity.

The assumption that individuals act rationally may be viewed as ignoring important aspects of human behavior.

The natural law was how a rational human being, seeking to survive and prosper, would act.

Prometheus () is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who in Greek mythology is credited with the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire for human use, an act that enabled progress and civilization.

The question is definitively resolved in Calvinism by asserting that all souls act according to God's sovereign will, and in Mormonism ( see below ) by asserting that human souls have always existed and are co-eternal with God.

An intervening cause has several requirements: it must 1 ) be independent of the original act, 2 ) be a voluntary human act or an abnormal natural event, and 3 ) occur in time between the original act and the harm.

The notion of the Program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century.

Continuing the evolution that led to humanity being born out of the natural world, the Christ being brings an impulse enabling human consciousness of the forces that act creatively, but unconsciously, in nature.

Thus there are things which may act as signs without any respect to the human agent ( the things of the external world, all sorts of indications, evidences, symptoms, and physical signals ), there are signs which are always signs ( the entities of the mind as ideas and images, thoughts and feelings, constructs and intentions ); and there are signs that have to get their signification ( as linguistic entities and cultural symbols ).

The basis of subtractive synthesis can be understood by considering the human voice ; when a human speaks, sings or makes other vocal noises, the vocal folds act as an oscillator and the mouth and throat as a filter.

Gladiators do not seem to have made good field soldiers – their enrollment should be seen as an act of desperation.

Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations in the OKW, remarked, after Raeder said Kriegsmarine could not meet the operational requirements of the Army, " then a landing in England must be regarded as a sheer act of desperation ".

In a last act of desperation, a seriously wounded Hassan kills both pilots, hoping the bomb will detonate if the plane crashes.

Bamboozled has a superficial similarity to the 1976 Oscar-winning film Network which is also about the frustrated employee of a television network who in an act of desperation creates a controversial television show.

In an act of desperation, the Insectoids and Reptilians detonated several charges beneath the 8 largest seismic fissures of the geologically-unstable planet Xindus, leading to its destruction and ultimately the extinction of the Xindi-Avian race.

In an unheard-of act of desperation, the family kidnapped Terumune and attempted to take him back with them.

" It's an act of desperation to use the N-word ," said Riddle.

Cavallo's appointment was, however, interpreted as an act of desperation by the derivatives markets and a massive shorting of Argentine bonds ensued, followed by at least US $ 40 billion in domestic capital flight.

It turned out that all three had partially merged during the explosion when Black Swan used his powers in an act of desperation to save himself.

In an act of desperation during the fight, Jonah pulls a knife and kills Noh-Tante.

His fighter was damaged, and believing that both he and all of humanity were doomed, Sinclair decided to ram the nearest Minbari cruiser in an act of desperation.

Credible strategic nuclear deterrence, the secretary felt, depended on fulfilling several conditions: maintaining essential equivalence with the Soviet Union in force effectiveness ; maintaining a highly survivable force that could be withheld or targeted against an enemy's economic base in order to deter coercive or desperation attacks against U. S. population or economic targets ; establishing a fast-response force that could act to deter additional enemy attacks ; and establishing a range of capabilities sufficient to convince all nations that the United States was equal to its strongest competitors.

Finally, in an act of desperation, Benny attacks Gorrister and begins to gnaw at the flesh on his face.

So far the only ' reverted ' wolfriders are Skywise, in an act of desperation, and Windkin, who had his wolf blood removed in infancy.

Traditional accounts of the Cromwellian wars often dismiss the appeal to Lorraine as an act of desperation, but recently one historian has argued that the stateless Duke was in fact seriously interested in becoming the Protector of Ireland.

" He was the first to play the position of quarterback as it is played today, the first to make of the forward pass an effective weapon rather than an " act of desperation ".

In an act of desperation, lacking money and food, he shoots his geese in an attempt to provide dinner.

In an act of desperation Sturm attempts to blow up the base and inflict damage on Wars World by self-destructing the missile.

Michaels later said that the film was " an act of desperation by Paramount ", in that the movie studio had under-promoted Spade and Farley's 1995 film, Tommy Boy and was now looking to cash in on the same comedy formula.

Red and Kitty even went so far as to revoke their offer to pay for Eric's college tuition in a final act of desperation to put a stop to the wedding but were unsuccessful.

In an act of final desperation, Spock orders a full bombardment with all phasers but the resulting energy demand damages the warp drive and the asteroid remains on its lethal course.

In a final act of desperation, he mailed copies of the tape to any major record label he could think of.

He was warned by Lyons that if the proclamation were issued, he would have been perceived as acting in desperation, since the U. S. was about to officially concede defeat and that issuing such an order would amount to nothing more than an attempt to raise insurrection inside what was now another country, and doing so would be seen as a directly hostile act.

In an act of desperation, Zor Prime blew up a Tirolian Mothership above the three giant burial mounds in an attempt to wipe out the flowers.