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noun

epigone

a less distinguished follower of an important person

In a sentence

Six example sentences with epigone, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every great painter attracts an epigone or two whose canvases repeat the master's gestures without any of the risk.

    Art

  • Critics dismissed him as an epigone, borrowing his teacher's vocabulary while never once testing where the argument actually broke.

    Philosophy

  • The band's second guitarist became an epigone of his own bandleader, copying every phrase a beat behind him.

    Music

  • Every decade produces an epigone of Hemingway whose short sentences carry none of the pressure underneath his.

    Literature

  • The office towers along that street were designed by an epigone of Mies, all glass and none of the proportion.

    Architecture

  • Reviewers called the director an epigone of Hitchcock, staging the same staircases without ever earning the suspense.

    Movies

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