impersonate
My dad was doing a passable impersonation of Fred Astaire.
Djokovic is famed on the tennis circuit for his impersonations of fellow players.
It is a sad fact that identity fraud or impersonation is increasingly common.
Students need to be educated about the dangers on the Internet, including identity theft, false impersonation and bullying.

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Examples of impersonation

impersonation
The character impersonation of bourgeois theatre expresses a social and political ideology based on individualism.
One of the benefits of token usage is that it inherently supports impersonation.
The dignity of historical wax effigies gave way in this account to tawdry impersonations made of cheap materials.
Perhaps the most satisfying chapter from the point of view of performance is the editors' own contribution, on the subject of comic impersonation.
Such identification will operate on the level of symbolic personification instead of true impersonation, although it should be no less vividly experienced.
The operation log is declared to be overloaded because when impersonation is in effect, the real user has to be recorded as well.
These performances are mimetic representations, of course, but by largely substituting the conventions of popular clowning for those of dramatic impersonation they effectively mock mimesis.
The object of this paper is to explore the imagery of these deity impersonations and their relationship to the corn ritual.
In defiance of early expectations, he has presented his authoritative impersonation of a gentlewoman.
I abandoned the intoxicating, swirling rhythm of the living goddess for her calmer impersonation at the dance.
In the exemplar, which has no real location, the buildings deliberately remain sketches only, impressions awaiting impersonation.
Why is so much emphasis placed here on the particulars of female impersonation?
Inevitably, however, her warmth would be exposed as an empty form, with no inner resonance, her behavior exposed as that of an actor, an impersonation of normality.
His second task was to play the stage persona of recalcitrant boy player, presenting a lively burlesque of female impersonation, then 'compelled' to do it correctly.
Although male impersonation was a virtual requirement for mezzo-sopranos, donning the trouser apparendy often caused female singers a discomfort proportionate to the thrills it afforded their audiences.
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