[
UK
/ˈɪmɪdʒɹˌi/
]
[ US /ˈɪmədʒɹi, ˈɪmɪdʒɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɪmədʒɹi, ˈɪmɪdʒɹi/ ]
NOUN
-
the ability to form mental images of things or events
he could still hear her in his imagination
How To Use imagery In A Sentence
- Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
- Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay.
- I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich.
- But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
- At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction
- Miró himself was an artist whose utterly distinctive early work had great beauty of form and color, and whose fecund imagery delights and amuses.
- Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color.
- Unlike fetishism, say, or scopophilia, the unappeasable, primitive drives that figure in Antoni's work don't readily lend themselves to sophisticated, daring imagery, the stuff of art.
- In writing, sometimes it's more important what you don't say: good word smithing phrase imagery can be relied upon to resonate meaning. Hey Obama -- Who Are You Calling Desperate?
- Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere. The Times Literary Supplement