impersonations

You might expect comedian Tina Fey to be ubiquitous after the election with her uncanny Palin impersonations.

These campaign stars helped make presidential politics pop 2008

If I say simply -- "The Sorrows," there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow -- separate cases of sorrow, -- whereas I want term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of man's heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

If I say simply, “The Sorrows, ” there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow, —separate cases of sorrow, —whereas I want a term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of man’s heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh.

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 1909

School is the sand-bank of a girl's life, rather heavy, but supporting the roses of debates and picnics and commencement and expression impersonations like the one Friday night is to be.

Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

He was not lacking in the power to comprehend and portray with marvelous and exquisite delicacy the subtle shades of character that Shakespeare loved to paint, and his impersonations were a delight to the refined scholar as well as the uncultivated backwoodsmen who crowded to his performances.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

How long did it take to perfect that, or was that one of those kind of impersonations thatyou have to know as an actor?

Hollywood Insider: James Roday and Ally Sheedy talk PSYCH 2010

Israeli Jews in particular are singled out in one essay for engaging in "impersonations" of the Nazis in the context of the Intifada.

Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory 2002

Israeli Jews in particular are singled out in one essay for engaging in "impersonations" of the Nazis in the context of the Intifada.

Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory 2002

Israeli Jews in particular are singled out in one essay for engaging in "impersonations" of the Nazis in the context of the Intifada.

Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory 2002

Maybe he can go around racking up TV-to-Big Screen roles the way Michael Sheen has been collecting those 'impersonations' of real people.

/Film 2009