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Once more we find the notes of uncertainty, of straying into paths, not always quite blind-alleys, but bye-paths certainly, the presence of isolated burst and flash, of effort unsuccessful or unequal as a whole. But here we find, what in the earlier chapter or section we do not find, distinct imitativeness and positive school-following.
The reputation for imitativeness, together with the quality itself, is due in no small degree, therefore, to the long-continued dominance of the feudal order of society.
When those impulses are restrained, mental unrest and irritability are apt to appear, and toys and picture books and kindergarten games will not be sufficient to restore his natural peace of mind. We may pass from considering the imitativeness of the child to study a second and closely related quality, his suggestibility.
With the monkey-like imitativeness of the negro she had copied the manners of white people while she lived among them, and had dropped them with equal facility when they ceased to serve a purpose. Who but a negro could have recovered so soon from what had seemed a terrible bereavement? she herself must have felt it at the time, for otherwise she would not have swooned.
In these latter systems, as in such still more imperfect symbolisms as those used at sea or in the woods, it may be contended that language no longer properly plays a part but that the ideas are directly conveyed by an utterly unrelated symbolic process or by a quasi-instinctive imitativeness. Such an interpretation would be erroneous.
But when you catch this Celestial domestic treasure, be sure that the first culinary operations performed for his instruction are correctly manipulated, for his imitativeness is of a cast-iron rigidity. Once in the mould, it can only with great difficulty be altered. Burn your toast or your pudding, and he is apt to regard the accident as the rule.
All our great actors have been good Mimics, and herein, doubtless, lies the secret of their success. The mere intonation of words unaccompanied by a strict knowledge of "that dumb, silent language," Pantomime, is only parroting. Herein, therefore, lies the true imitativeness of the actor, and the natural form of acting.
He had never been satisfied with the circulation methods; but theretofore his ignorance of business and his position as mere salaried editor had acted in restraint upon his interference with the "ground floor." As he had suspected, the business office was afflicted with the twin diseases routine and imitativeness.
She had immediately sung her way into the hearts of Berlin music-lovers, provided that you care to call a mixture of snobbishness, sophisticated impressionableness and goose-like imitativeness heart. She had, therefore, been acquired by one of our most distinguished opera houses at a large salary and with long leaves of absence.
In our times a good or brave deed is squeezed into an obscure paragraph, while intellect and brilliant talent receive scarcely any acknowledgment the silly doings of 'society' and the Court are the chief matter, hence, possibly, the preponderance of dunces and flunkeys, again produced by sheer 'imitativeness. Is it pleasant for a man with starvation at his door, to read that a king pays two thousand a year to his cook?
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