How To Use Imaginary In A Sentence

The abuse of libel laws is not imaginary. Times, Sunday Times
Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force.
But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism. The Feel Good Presidency
He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,

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What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars. A Great Leap…Forward?
78 Day 4 The variable z so defined has now a real and an imaginary part that can be individually addressed using, respectively, the syntax: __real__ z and __imag__ z Similarly, the next declaration produces a complex variable of 32-bit integer type: __complex__ int x; Recently Uploaded Slideshows
In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
She lived in a bit of an imaginary world, she says. Times, Sunday Times
He was strumming an imaginary banjo. Times, Sunday Times
The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass.
He has imaginary friends I guess. Times, Sunday Times
Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
It usually involves constructing imaginary walls around minorities and euphemizing the situation by describing it as a mosaic.
He became convinced that his illness was purely imaginary: that made it none the better.
The meridian is an imaginary line drawn from pole to pole.
Slowly slide your back down the wall until you are in a sitting position, as though seated on an imaginary chair.
‘Cyrano must build sympathy with the public in the very first scene, when he must fight and sing like a hero,’ he said, punctuating his words with a flourish of an imaginary épée.
He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
Understandably, the Royal Society of Chemistry has just honoured Holmes with a fellowship, the first time an imaginary character is being recognised.
Not an imaginary scene, but a view of Philip's serpentine garden at Greystones, winding into the distance. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due. Fairness and Justice « Unknowing
The occasional burst of speed is required to outrun real and imaginary predators.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The abuse of libel laws is not imaginary. Times, Sunday Times
Spectators may be moved to laugh or cry, but they know that the actor is playing a role in an imaginary world that is not their actual world; it lies on the other side of an unbridgeable gap.
Micky Conlan would roll the ball in front, then run, pick it up, baulk an imaginary opponent, run close to the boundary, kick the goal then scuttle back, laughing.
A woman dressed in a grey babygro reads a story about a man and his imaginary children which features a mildly disturbing maternal death. Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
Not one person outside of Congress has shown this to be anything else than a financial train wreck ... but Libs think we can pay for things with "Social Merits" and imaginary cost savings ... leave it to the Left to misidentify a problem thereby ensuring the wrong solution ... vwrtb Reid to Senate: Get ready to work overtime on health care
The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar.
As she listened, she played an imaginary piano on her knees.
For the first time this week Amelia did not grizzle or throw a tantrum whilst sitting in the trolley and I managed to negotiate the parking lot with grace and ease (my two imaginary friends).
The meridian is an imaginary line drawn from pole to pole.
More than some unilinear stage in the evolution of society, ‘information society’ indexes the distance between where people believe organizations are and where they should be: it is, in other words, a function of the imaginary.
The unicorn is an imaginary beast.
It also only worked, he noted, when certain imaginary parts of two complex numbers cancelled out.
One way to illustrate such a difference is to characterize different relationships between the Symbolic and the Imaginary.
The sort of man who practises imaginary cricket strokes along empty hotel corridors and has a special jacket for afternoon walks. Times, Sunday Times
Players bought a translucent anglerfish at six times the rate of other sea creatures, using an imaginary currency people get by playing the game. Virtual Products, Real Profits
He discovers a lost tribe on an imaginary island who seem to have found the secret to eternal life. Times, Sunday Times
This in turn led to the idea that the universe could be finite in imaginary time but without boundaries or singularities.
The imaginary central point in the sail through which the power of the sail acts.
Beth rolled her eyes at her, then put up an imaginary microphone, pretending that she was a game show host.
a kelpie is an imaginary water sprite, you know, and a pixy is a-- a-- why, a sort of make-believe fairy who lives in the water. Patty in Paris
He was strumming an imaginary banjo. Times, Sunday Times
It may be expressed as IX, where X, the reactance, is the imaginary part of the impedance.
In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar. The Dark Queen
The beginner may find less pressure by trying to roll the longer putts into an imaginary circle about three feet around the hole. Winning Golf for Women
That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
The whole surrounded by white stars arranged in the form of an annulet with one point of each star outward on the imaginary radiating center lines, the number of stars conforming to the number of stars in the union of the Flag of the United States as established by the act of Congress approved April 4, 1818, 3 Stat. 415. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9646
Let's return to that imaginary work appraisal. Times, Sunday Times
She anxiously put a hand to her bangs, fixing imaginary strays and adjusting the many colored, chunky plastic bracelets on her arm.
At least in the imaginary versions for bass tuba or kettledrum I wager to say that he is right.
Little Chelsea seeks solace in her imaginary friend called Jodie.
They feature palatial cathedrals, now totally imaginary, and evoking the grandest styles, from the Sacré-Coeur to the Kremlin, from Saint-Sophia to English gothic, Austrian or German baroque.
It requires us to know what ‘would be’ illegal under current Canadian law in all conceivable imaginary worlds, which is an incomputable function.
This is so because the money sits in an imaginary reservoir and the state can "unblock" it (debloquer is the French word used to describe this happy event) ... Will Europe Collapse?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Draftsman Scott Teplin has released a series of limited color prints of an imaginary city where every letter of the alphabet is an architectural drawing of a building. The Alphabet City, by Scott Teplin « Third Point of Singularity
But, I thought you couldn’t call it ‘receivership’ either, because those all trillions and trillions of imaginary dollars in notional value Credit Default Swaps have to pay out for banks that go into ‘recievership’ and to have those unexploded CDS liabilities go from imaginary to real would be the world financial system equivalent of Global Thermonuclear War. Matthew Yglesias » Eisinger and Salmon on Bank Nationalization
“Let me not,” said he, “waste my compassion upon nothing; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell me, then, if thou deservest it, or if thy misfortunes are imaginary, and thy grief is factitious?” Cecilia
Imaginary fingers combed through his hair, stroked the side of his face.
With your arms hanging loosely at your sides and your toes pointed slightly outward, perform an imaginary seated leg extension.
Indeed, for AH and BC to be orthogonal, the ratio (H - A) / (B - C) must be purely imaginary.
It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis.
His celebrated portrait of Charles William Lambton in scarlet velveteens was sometimes assumed to be an imaginary portrait of the dreaming, youthful Byron, the very soul of English romanticism, and was reproduced across Europe as such, and is still instantly recognisable today. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
Formerly imagines in the Kantism of is suppressed, imagines in the Kantism after arriving of put to fly, Comte to imaginary of the mainstay that develop to is among them.
It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself. Where's the show?
When reading engages coded alphabetic symbols and generates through them a poetic setting in the head, or a narrative scenario, the reader has not entered upon the imaginary via some magic auscultation, some occulted relation to a speaking authorial presence. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Unfixed subjectivity has easy access to resources of imaginary compensation.
His evil spirit imaginary dance step is lets the innumerable stars imitate.
[159] _Sestertia centum_; that is, _centum millia sestertiorum_, or the ancient census of the citizens of the first class; for the neuter sestertia was used in calculations as an imaginary coin of _mille sestertii_ or ten nummi aurei. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Ah, remember the old and probably imaginary days when commuting was a joy? Times, Sunday Times
Scary monsters, imaginary and all too real, stalk through the story. Times, Sunday Times
Guayaquil was two degrees south of the equator, the imaginary bellyband of the planet after which the country itself was named. Galapagos
Fogarty shoots off into a rapid-fire imaginary conversation between an agency executive and a newspaper ad sales person.
In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this imaginary journey and who will tell the tales.
She used those wolves for all they were worth, as though imaginary wolves still nipped her heels in the Clifton Mall.
The 11-year-old with the imaginary friends threatens to kill authority figures, fights other children and behaves so badly that, since being safe havened, he has twice been removed from specialized foster homes because even trained foster parents can't handle him. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
The waving of imaginary cards. Times, Sunday Times
They conduct imaginary conversations and write letters to their loved ones, bringing closure not completed at the time of death.
Initially, only one other vessel responded, so Duncan cheekily anchored the two ships in full view of the Dutch fleet, ordering his officers to signal regularly to the imaginary remainder of his warships.
What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations.
I was always escaping into some imaginary world, building things like robots or writing musicals. Times, Sunday Times
Alan took a chip in the neck and it opened up a small cut that nevertheless bled copiously and ruined, * ruined* his favorite T-shirt, with Snoopy sitting atop his doghouse in an aviator's helmet, firing an imaginary machine gun at the cursed Red Baron. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information. Silicon Republic - News
Ted ... you've greatly overestimated your appeal as well as having greatly overstated your nonacceptance of an imaginary offer! Top Obama VP candidate takes himself out of the running
For Rodney the imaginary hotel was an idealized vision of an elegantly-appointed hotel, aswarm with chic guests.
Get on my imaginary cross-country, whistle-stopping train, President Obama, and remind people it was the railroads that fostered the nation's economic progress a century ago. Murray Fromson: Some Inescapable Truths
What once seemed a crafty producer's gimmick now sounds more like the imaginary friend of a shy dude who needed someone to talk to in the studio while he chain-smoked blunts.
But by progress must not be understood the imaginary and metaphysical _law of progress_, which should lead the generations of man with irresistible force to some unknown destiny, according to a providential plan which we can logically divine and understand. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
It's a novel of stories within stories that aspires to the condition of the imaginary book at its shifting centre - infinitude.
The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
An imaginary canary, the catman has—or it could be an imaginary canard. Love of Irish Women
Assuring the patient that she has a real and not imaginary problem is the first step.
We've used an imaginary case history to illustrate them.
Assuring the patient that she has a real and not imaginary problem is the first step.
The imaginary is both a projection of desire and the product of a system of signification that exceeds the subject, that is determined by the exchange and economy of objects, and that is influenced by the different auratic economies of the technological and media environment. Archive 2007-03-01
An imaginary line drawn through these two stars points to Andromeda galaxy.
I cracked up laughing as Lane suddenly appeared in all her black and pierced glory, bowing to an imaginary crowd before posing for photographs that weren't being taken.
What is people's problem with the imaginary card? Times, Sunday Times
Although the main characters in the novel are so true to life, they are imaginary.
This may have explained the lack of subsequent goals, with cautious players saving themselves for imaginary knockout games. Times, Sunday Times
Imaginary dana reminds us that this fellow is one and the same guy who organized the fiasco otherwise known as Mayday for Marriage last October. Bill Gates turns his back on LGBT equality after religious supremacists threaten boycott
Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. Williston Fish (1858-1939)
Kevin Kline addressed the question in the imaginary audience of courtiers that would soon surround the platform stage.
I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be. Archive 2007-05-01
Her hands clenched an imaginary steering wheel in excitement and she ran to recreate the sense of wind streaming through her hair. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
And if you know the history of the universe in imaginary time, you can calculate how it behaves in real time.
Sometimes the actors are so busy moving about the props and making sure they don't walk through imaginary walls, it feels more like we're watching stagehands in period garb than actors involved in the drama.
Anna now believes that she was in love with a person who really didn't exist - an imaginary person that she created by attributing characteristics to Bill that he didn't actually possess.
Is an imaginary campaign manager really the worst political decision you've heard lately?
A born storyteller, she transformed the paths and flower beds into imaginary pleasure domes for the benefit of her siblings. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
No one can ever be really available on our imaginary Pacific desert island mentioned earlier.
I don't like players waving imaginary cards at officials to get an opponent in trouble. The Sun
Let's return to that imaginary work appraisal. Times, Sunday Times
It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory.
The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfilments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date.
They loved to tiptoe dramatically across the bridge grimacing in anticipation of waking their imaginary monster.
Afterwards we went in together and ate our soup with the roti and then, in the lantern light by the fire, played rummy for imaginary sums.
Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
The imaginary gifts often reflect the wish of group members to share a part of themselves. Trauma and Recovery
Not a strict depiction of an actual locale, it is more in the Italian tradition of the capriccio, or imaginary scene. When They Were in Rome
So far we have used "phantasy" only of real or imaginary impressions of sense. Guide to Stoicism
Only not exactly gallivant, more like gadabout, playing an international game of tag with an imaginary, relentless and inexhaustible "it. Omer Rosen: From Point A To Point A By Way Of Point A
She stood at the sink in a trance, waiting for the next line in the imaginary conversation while she rinsed the mug over and over, but it wouldn't come.
This dissolves the moral distinction between a man who faces real dangers and one who faces imaginary ones. Times, Sunday Times
The superdreadnought Chicago, as she approached the imaginary but nevertheless sharply defined boundary, which no other ship had been allowed to pang, went inert and crept forward, mile by mile. First Lensman
In large part, this was done by converting the nodes representing imperial outposts across the empire into real places connected not only by telegraph cables but also by imaginary bridges.
As soon as the reader falls into how the imaginary world functions, then the framework is all set for the action - any action - to follow. Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
His latest directorial venture, Imaginary Invalid, bears testimony to this thinking.
The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war.
In that imaginary reality what drives people to act in one way or another is ideas of honour, chivalry, nobility and heroism.
Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale.
Just as four hundred years before, Jack Straw was an imaginary champion whose name inflamed the people to rise, so now Jack The Carbonels
It is conceivable that the story of our imaginary graduate student might end more happily.
To everyone else, all that existed about unicorns was that they were imaginary creatures that roamed the world.
Traces of an Imaginary Affair" ( "Vestígios de um caso amoroso imaginário") é um projecto do designer Björn Franke. Archive 2009-03-01
I wanted to stage an imaginary confrontation with a banker, force him to justify his wealth, and then demolish his arguments. Times, Sunday Times
They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
Totally imaginary forms also include dream forms (rmi-lam-gyi gzugs), cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, as well as the forms of Buddha-figures that appear in visualization practices, either with conceptual or nonconceptual mental cognition. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future
He discovers a lost tribe on an imaginary island who seem to have found the secret to eternal life. Times, Sunday Times
And in particular he singled out for comment the following question, which was one of those set, “Using the term circle as extending to the case where the radius is a pure imaginary, it is required to construct the common chord of two given circles.” Autobiography
The lady all unready, alackaday!" put in the Honourable Isabel, from behind a fan to hide imaginary blushes. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
Enter an imaginary kingdom as a prince or princess. Times, Sunday Times
At the meeting it emerged that French trawlermen and netters, who usually set nets in one place and return to retrieve them, had an unwritten agreement to avoid fishing together in an ‘imaginary box’ around 30 miles long.
He has remade a whole small shop building in King's Cross into an imaginary reptile house, except there aren't any reptiles in the museum cases!
The compressor is of radial type and provided with an impeller with backswept blades where the blade angle between an imaginary extension of the center line of the blade between root section and tip section in the direction of the outlet tangent and a line which connects the center axis of the impeller to the outer tip of the blade is at least roughly 45°.
A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc.
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
We are totally captivated, both emotionally and intellectually, by all the imaginary realness of the dream.
The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence.
We know now that, during his fifty years of virtual isolation, Darger had been constructing his own unique imaginary world, a world which he drew and described with mesmeric finesse.
You have posed a counterfactual question, an imaginary question.
Mr. Cosell shot back in his memoir, He ' d try to compensate for his lack of knowledgeability by singing a song or talking to his imaginary alter ego, Harley Smydlapp, and everybody would write about how funny and irrepressible he was. From Star on Football Field to Cut-Up in Broadcast Booth
The preverbal identifications of the Imaginary involve identifications based on symbiotic fusion with the primary caretaker.
Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that.
I raised the subject of air-cricket – cricket you play in mime form, often using a bat-like object, and perhaps making a "clonk" noise as you dispatch an imaginary ball – on the Guardian's over-by-over commentary recently and was swamped with stories: the man who performed a lofted drive with his rolled degree certificate at his graduation and sent it sailing into the audience; the Russian wedding almost ruined by a display of aggressive umbrella air-batsmanship; the hospital-ward practice of playing air-cricket with a drip stand. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
The fantasy creature category contained such imaginary creatures as fairy, hairy Cyclops, and gremlin.
This is very thoughtful of Constantine," observed Denny, who was employing himself in cutting imaginary lemons in two with a fine damascened scimiter that he had taken from the wall. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
Workplaces real and imaginary are explored in Robert Pinsky's Triangle Factory, Charles Simic's spookily empty warehouse, and Lorine Niedecker's poet's "condensery. Labor Day Poems: The Poetry Foundation Favorites
Totally imaginary forms also include dream forms (rmi-lam-gyi gzugs), cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, as well as the forms of Buddha-figures that appear in visualization practices, either with conceptual or nonconceptual mental cognition. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future
When English lawyer Sir Thomas More--a devout Roman Catholic--coined the word "utopia" to describe his imaginary island nation in the early 16th century, it was a play on the Greek eu-topos, meaning "good place" and ou-topos, meaning "no place". Domino's Founder Claims 'Misconceptions' Over Catholic TownDomino's Founder Claims 'Misconceptions' Over Catholic Town
Concerning further details deponent sayeth not, though he may hint that some of his plethoric national patriotism simmered down and leaked out of the bottom of his soul somewhere -- at least, since that experience he finds that he cares more for men and women and little children than for imaginary geographical lines. How I Became a Socialist
We must protect older people from harm, whether it is real or imaginary.
But the bibliomaniac may in fact have supplied his contemporaries with a resource for thinking about how booksor, better still, the canon (that "imaginary totality of works" referenced by John Guillory, who cautions us against the ideological misprision involved in thinking that it might be materialized anywhere) might be more firmly attached to persons, might be rendered personal effects. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation, with real soldiers, real weapons and using real resources.
Wouldn't the unity of all things come to you, and wouldn't you chirrup like a bird, and buzz like a bee, and turn imaginary somersaults and dance and sing, and feel like cutting up "didoes," and talk a little high strung, and be chipper with the lowliest and level with the highest? Brook Farm
In play, children create an imaginary situation in which rules of behaviour are formulated.
He was tapping his foot impatiently, picking imaginary specks of lint from the sleeve of his coat.
His ‘imaginary snapshots’ are created using unexposed, processed photographic paper.
The audience surveys a melange of imaginary figures, and historical ones both famous and obscure.
We could see his lips move, and concluded he was saying something to imaginary persons, for he would put a jampot on his tray, and pour into it from the bottle, and then replace it. J. Cole
Pick out one particular spot in that imaginary scene, and sketch me in it, with outstretched arms, curved back, and heels in the air, plunging headforemost into a black patch of water and mud. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
In the absence of bodies, his poem becomes simultaneously the space of their imaginary union and the fruition of it - a textual body.
If the imaginary card comes out, the referee puts his real one away. Times, Sunday Times
But is a call to metaphorical arms against an imaginary adversary counter-productive?
It's one thing to cast orcs or some other imaginary monsters as being evil.
Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
I accept no responsibility whatsoever for any psychological traumas, mishaps, misfortunes, or bad karma alleged to result from viewing this site, whether real, imaginary or pretended.
He has become social with other children, engages in imaginary play, and has started to potty train!
Drawing on various tropes from the French Nouvelle Vague of the '50s and '60s, the 22-year-old Dolan tells a tale of Montrealer 20-somethings and their fractured threesome -- well, that is, an imaginary one. Brad Balfour: Films in Review: Two of the Next Generation for Francophiles
The only saving grace is that most children take it for granted that spirits and the like are imaginary beings.
Their interests by virtue of public statements and the work made collectively between 1961 and 1966 appear largely designed to dissolve what in theater is known as the imaginary "fourth wall" dividing audiences from artists. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
I raised the subject of air-cricket – cricket you play in mime form, often using a bat-like object, and perhaps making a "clonk" noise as you dispatch an imaginary ball – on the Guardian's over-by-over commentary recently and was swamped with stories: the man who performed a lofted drive with his rolled degree certificate at his graduation and sent it sailing into the audience; the Russian wedding almost ruined by a display of aggressive umbrella air-batsmanship; the hospital-ward practice of playing air-cricket with a drip stand. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
Indians (Bedouins) with very long spears in their hands, cavorting around on old crowbait horses, and spearing imaginary enemies; whooping, and fluttering their rags in the wind, and carrying on in every respect like The Innocents Abroad
The continental divide refers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockies that divides the waters flowingsintosthe Atlantic Ocean from those flowingsintosthe Pacific.
It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided, or divisible, community in Northern Ireland.
Stand on one leg and hop over an imaginary straight line ten times. Times, Sunday Times
There exist countless instances of the type, present and past, real and imaginary, actual and potential.
This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary. Death—and After?
Spending money on imaginary problems is worse than not spending at all: it lulls us into false security and it does nor identify and address important, real problems.
He told a story about an imaginary land.
He became convinced that his illness was purely imaginary: that made it none the better.
Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
What is a blog but an uncensored epistle to an imaginary friend? Times, Sunday Times
He pulled out an imaginary golf club pretended to tee up his and swung.
He did hold grudges, whether real or imaginary. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
This time, a lonely little girl's imaginary friend turns real and decides that adults are scum.
Not only is he a modern star playing a classic star, he's playing him as an imaginary figure.

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