Rosamond, however, was on her side much occupied with conjectures, though her quick imitative perception warned her against betraying them too crudely.
It all reverts in the end to the action of innumerable imitative individuals upon each other and to the question of whose tone has the highest spreading power.
Such behaviour is hard to understand without imagining a mind that can appreciate what it sees and which intends to mimic the actions of others (see " The imitative dolphin" ).
We are going to be dead pretty soon and all those cancer stories point us in one direction only: towards the need to stop being a craven, imitative, second hand timid flunkey and herd-animal.
(The imitative element can be seen in " dax on" , which ChatGPT probably patterned on the likes of " chew on" or " munch on" .) What about the " poverty of the stimulus" ?
He who in matters of teaching must be led by others is not the one to lead the imitative undergraduate, not the one to inspire the confidence and loyalty and discipleship on which all true teaching depends.