(n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
(n.) Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
(n.) The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
(n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(2) Imagining faces was also the only condition that led to an increase of activity in the left inferior occipital region which has been suggested by previous studies as being a crucial area for visual imagery.
(3) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(4) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(5) However, this remarkable property of "internal imagery" has not been exploited for structural investigation at the molecular level.
(6) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
(7) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(8) Treatment consisted of the induction of hypnosis, followed by guided imagery focused on the physical and functional attributes of stimulus objects.
(9) The importance of both the hypnoid state and the accompanying imagery (fantasy) formation for aiding in discharging the excitement of the overstimulated state was commented upon.
(10) The findings ruled out the possibility that demand characteristics and subjects' knowledge were solely responsible for the results of Experiments 1 and 3 and support the argument for the role of imagery.
(11) All the imagery is absolutely on beat, and that beat is 128 bpm.
(12) 156 subjects (students and working adults) completed Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in one of two formats reflecting item order (blocked, random) under one of three instructional conditions (easy, neutral, difficult) reflecting ease of image formation.
(13) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
(14) All three clinical groups differed from controls in memory for low-imagery as opposed to high-imagery words and in computational efficiency.
(15) "Use new satellite imagery to trace buildings, infrastructure, areas, natural features and other important visible features of the city of Ormoc," lists one requests, as well as "map the current state of Tacloban City area after Typhoon Haiyan inflicted heavy damage to buildings, infrastructure and areas".
(16) Interactions between imagery and perception imply a common locus of activity, and the content-specific interactions obtained here imply that the common locus consists of representational structures.
(17) Materials-based occupation, imagery-based occupation, and rote exercise have been examined individually by several researchers.
(18) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
(19) In Study 3, three forms of experimenter-guided mastery imagery reduced AIDS social anxiety and increased AIDS altruism.
(20) In the case of the third subject, the verbal label was incorporated into the imagery procedure following 10 training sessions.
Phantasm
Definition:
(n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.
(n.) A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’d acknowledge that what we see on the proverbial “street” is just a phantasm, just a trick of the eye.
(2) b) Concepts related to the most elementary level of intervention in occupational therapy termed as "objective relationship", in other words the construction of the external objective world as opposed to the world of phantasms or magical thought.
(3) Our psychopedagogical work with teenagers having serious problems in the school setting led us to set up a clinical approach giving back to thought the ability to link affects and their representations whereas the thought process had seemed exhausted by a never-ending fight to avoid being swallowed up by the primary processes or through representing unbearable phantasms.
(4) Psychologically speaking, the phantasm of the "nation" provides scope for the realization of the desire for pre-ambivalent fusion with an object that has rid itself of everything heterogeneous, alien and autonomous.
(5) Sebald could have been writing about his own astonishing and enigmatic books: haunted by phantasms who might be archetypes, polymorphous in their form, piebald in their appearance, travelling widely in time if not broadly in space, and inspired by an avidity for the undiscovered.
(6) While from a psychoanalytic viewpoint xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been extensively examined, the same can by no means be said of the phantasm of the "nation".
(7) Heim's intention in this is to show that (present-day) xenophobia and racism are the products of a phantasm centering around the division of the world into pure and impure.
(8) CERVANTES describes in his novel, without the noxa alcohol playing any part though, a state of affairs which is similar to the symptoms of the chronic jealousy-phantasm of the alcoholic who only has in his mind's eye the sheer wish to possess his partner.
(9) Inspired by a kind of avidity for the undiscovered, they move along a line where the points of demarcation are those strange manifestations and objects of which one cannot say whether they are among the phantasms generated in our minds from time immemorial.
(10) We’ve got used to seeing ads featuring these phantasmically awful, beautiful people sold to us as ideals of living over the decades.
(11) The preposterous, patholplastic forms of this jealousy-phantasm make the main figure of the short novel, the old man Carrizales, his absurd, fantastie plans of a hermetical isolation of his wife from the outside-world a reality.