| The Japanese excel in imitativeness, but are not as reliable as the Chinese. |
| It demands too much of mere memory, imitativeness, and the insidious willingness to absorb other people's ideas. |
| Again, it is safe, in the way of intellectual capacity, to give the Eskimo credit for ingenuity and imitativeness. |
| Most of the people surrounding him are skeptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice. |
| If one thing strikes Western observers of Eastern karaoke, it is its imitativeness. |
| But the best of the book is second-rate, vitiated by diffuseness, imitativeness, and the usual sentimentality. |
