(n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
(n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
(n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
(n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(4) Not long ago the comeback would have been impossible to imagine.
(5) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
(6) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(7) 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.
(8) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(9) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(10) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(11) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
(12) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(13) We need not strain our powers of prediction to imagine how the Conservatives and much of the media would react.
(14) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(15) Imagine a Swansea player plays against Chelsea on Saturday and then goes to Manchester City, then he plays against Chelsea again the next week.
(16) I am acutely aware that not all of you, by any stretch of the imagination, will approve of everything I have done.
(17) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(18) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
(19) After all those years imagining what he would look like; first his hair, then his forehead and then those blue, blue eyes gradually revealed themselves.
(20) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
Reverie
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Revery
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
(2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
(3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
(4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
(5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
(6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
(7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
(8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
(9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
(11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
(12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
(13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
(15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
(16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
(17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
(18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
(19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
(20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.