How To Use Imagination In A Sentence

Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
The example of the first fighter aces fixed itself in the imaginations of a generation being born just as they had met their deaths. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
So if you take it and call it your own, you're just uncreative and have no imagination.
We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.

Memories are to be prized but not relied upon for they are always undermined by the imagination.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
With a wide and varied selection of events, displays and performances, the festival captures the spirit of Yeats's works and the imagination of Sligo audiences.
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. William James
The other route would see the fruits of eight years of growth wither on the vine through inaction and lack of imagination.
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination. Helen Keller
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
This series is characterised by perfect realism juxtaposed with wild imagination.
Manufacturers have let their imaginations run riot to create new computer games.
Your imagination will burst out, no matter how hard you try to contain it so get in first and showcase your ideas. The Sun
Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
And there's a good reason for that: Iron Man 2 opened to a strong week and recharged the public imagination on all things superpowerful. How Not To Act Like A Superhero
The limits of your imagination are bounded only by your budgets, so think creative.
Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
Just think what you could achieve with vision, imagination and drive.
Your imagination for romantic gestures is second to none. The Sun
Long after the kingdoms of southern Arabia disappeared, the fabled riches of the region live on in the popular imagination.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
popular imagination created a world of demons
An artist must learn to let his imagination run riot.
They look at it as a fertile ground for imagination and storytelling. Times, Sunday Times
DaeSung was on for the telerecording for SBS YaShimManMan recently where he revealed about his antics for irrelevant imagination and curiosity. BIG BANG Fansite
Many hotels are showing enterprise and imagination by staging special events.
Extra wallpaper can be used to cover lampshades, pots, wood furniture, screens - the only limit is your imagination!
Quantum mechanics, however, still remains far beyond the reach of Einstein's classicising imagination.
There is little detail about retail and leisure developments so presumably nothing to catch the imagination is on its way.
We have to put our eyes and our minds and imaginations into play. Times, Sunday Times
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
You'll remember that Caillois was of the opinion that most solitary games were agonic, played with the imagination of a community of similarly situated players. WoW v. MDY: Copyright, EULAs, and Game Rules
Her imagination seemed to have dried up.
But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it. GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
Yet it is arguable that by exciting the imaginations of his audience old Leonardo helped broaden the future audience for the arts in general.
Third is taking the imagination as the knot, and the huge artistic senility.
Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
Humans add a formalized degree of consciousness to the morphic field - the noosphere - and, more importantly, a frequency of imagination.
Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination.
Constructed of pine, its painted surface is an exuberant expression of the artist's imagination and creativity.
I have an active imagination. Times, Sunday Times
The prime example is the Dada movement, whose nihilistic work is now admired for qualities of imagination.
In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination.
The common sense stands midway between the corporeal sense of sight and the imagination, which is in the anterior chamber of the brain, and is known as phantasy (Aristotelian φαντασία). A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
By no stretch of the imagination could the trip be described as relaxing.
I have not numerated Noël's birthday presents because I wish to leave something to the imagination of my young readers. The Wouldbegoods
My imagination galloped around the possible, the impossible and the absurd. Times, Sunday Times
Judges placed high value on entries that demonstrated imagination, originality and flair.
When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort. Introduction, I.1
They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind. Times, Sunday Times
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most trans formative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling
Whether it'll be able to make a leap from a borderline NCAA team to a national contender -- as State fans thought might happen this season -- requires yet another stretch of the imagination. Southeastern Conference
But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it. The Guermantes Way
When there is nothing in bloom, she can learn to use her imagination with boughs and branches and clippings from hedges, grasses, and even weeds, to make friendly little bouquets. Learning to Be a Home Keeper
The painting is composed from places the artist knew well, but it is mainly a product of his imagination rather than being a painting of a particular scene.
And by this, I mean the many overlapping discoveries of unvoiced knowledge, feelings and imagination that we stumble upon via images.
Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
The little man did not know, that time was wanted for imagination to make the roadway or riverway of a true story, unless we press to invent; his mind had been too busy on the way for him to clothe in speech his impressions of the passage of incidents at the call for them. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
And in his imagination he saw himself standing tall on the front porch this afternoon.
But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible. Robert Falconer
The film allows the director ample space for his visual imagination to freewheel with dazzling spontaneity and inventiveness.
It may even be the least-worst option for some management teams lacking in imagination or talent. Times, Sunday Times
He advocates the instinct, the imagination, the unconsciousness, by means of the intelligence which he esteems so far beneath them ....
Key fabrics in this collection include felt and denim which she treats with dexterity and imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
Equally, there are those who conduct their affairs with imagination and equanimity.
Your lively imagination will suggest other ridiculous scenarios that may work better for you. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
Their unique hi - tech and futuristic features always manage to capture are imagination.
It was with a child's eager interest and pliant imagination that Bessie looked and listened, -- susceptible, credulous, unfastidious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
A variety of exercises that draw on the student's own experience and creative imagination.
She dismissed the thought as the result of her overwrought imagination, but it was all she could do not to run the last few steps to her cell.
There is not much difference, except in the "soothfastness"; the author is closer to his subject, his imagination is confronted with something very near reality, and is not helped, as in the older stories, by traditional imaginative modifications of his subject. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
Their failure is not simply one of crabbiness or rancour; it's a failure of imagination.
Companies that rely solely on such a customer-focused approach may find themselves outmaneuvered by competitors with more imagination.
Imagination is the key to unlock the door to insights, ideas and inspirations, but it is worthless without purpose and meaning. Dr T.P.Chia
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
The groups used their creative imaginations and played a game of 'consequences' to create drawings and models of creatures such as reptiles, insects, birds and fish.
Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark. Anatomy of Melancholy
To make policy requires empathy, imagination and a firm grasp of statistics and probable outcomes. Times, Sunday Times
But modern-day swimming pool chutes and ponies captured the imagination and attention of the youngsters.
Our recipe book is the Book of Fate, to be interpreted wisely and with some imagination.
In fact, what truly prevents Modi from taking the grand leap of his imagination — that is, remaking Gujarat into a kind of antiseptic global entrepôt, like Singapore and Dubai — is the ball-and-chain reality of the Indian landscape itself. India’s New Face
Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
This is by no stretch of the imagination a garden shed. Times, Sunday Times
To put it generously, this was a terrible failure of imagination.
We now know quite a bit about the human mind, how it constrains our imaginations by forcing information into boxes called ontological categories, and what kinds of cognitive errors including projection it is prone to. Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Human (Part 1)
The downside of such a vivid imagination is that the negatives can get very powerful as well. Times, Sunday Times
She lived entirely by spiritual values, in a world of poetry and imagination.
Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.
No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
Whether you like fur or not, this was a virtuoso display of craftsmanship and imagination. Times, Sunday Times
By no stretch of the imagination could you call him ambitious.
SKETCHY SANTAS anta Claus has captured our imaginations for centuries as an enduring symbol of kindness and generosity. Sketchy Santas
The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia's broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public.
Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown.
From this process emerges spontaneous sketches and studied works from life or the imagination.
Imagination is the source of creation.
Even if one is blessed with the senses of touch, smell, speech and hearing, it is sight that gives shape to imagination.
As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves. California Literary Review
This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
The speciality of these pieces is that the gemstones are powdered and used as base colours, which reflects the imagination of the artist.
Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination.
The appointment is not a disaster, though it shows a poverty of imagination.
The Romantics believed that the life of the imagination was intrinsically valuable.
She'd been on everybody's back most of the week, getting a feel for her New York companies and finishing up with dinner with Eric last night-which, while fun, could not by any stretch of the imagination be called restful-and today Ria was looking forward to a leisurely day of shopping and sightseeing. Beyond World's End
The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
Bricolage certainly jars and stirs the imagination, but is bricolage enough for reform?
He advocates the instinct, the imagination, the unconsciousness, by means of the intelligence which he esteems so far beneath them ....
The people who write these things must have vivid imaginations. Times, Sunday Times
The camera does not seem to have made the take-over bid for his active imagination that other people record.
Why did he invoke the swarthy boogeymen of the modern right-wing imagination right before launching into a verse about the good old days when his "grandpappy" would "take all the rope in Texas ... find a tall oak tree," and "hang them high in the street, for all the people to see? Max Blumenthal: Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation
So suspend your imagination for a moment, and look at the following fairy tales as a hard-core scientist might.
Our imagination can be either helpful or discouraging when it begins to anticipate a course of action.
This was a failure of policy, management, capability, and above all, a failure of imagination.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
The things I can do are beyond your mortal imagination.
You could have a sense of the macabre if you allowed your imagination to run away with you. Times, Sunday Times
Her unnerving clarity and audacious style reveal an intellect and imagination capable of a major work.
This is not absolutely necessary but it would stretch your imagination and further clarify the entire research process from beginning to end.
Use your imagination to find an answer.
All in all, Chinese spring palace paintings are inclined to poetic imagination, yet western nudes commit themselves to veracious expression.
The word imagination derives from the idea of imaging. The Power of Positive Thinking
It catches people's imagination, and becomes, as Harry wanted, a kind of pictogram to represent the whole range.
The timbre of his strong, expressive voice and the poetry of his lyrics captured the imagination of a generation. Smithsonian Mag
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Much in human life is given to looking forward in imagination or to looking back in memory. Times, Sunday Times
Behind all the hysterical and gaudy obloquy is the suspicion that each could have been everything he ever promised he would be - and, in the common imagination, still can be.
Within weeks we and our former partners on the Continent are engaged in a war beyond imagination. The Sun
Imagination and artistic creation are also, according to a strict interpretation of Freudian theory, neurotic symptoms.
It is hideous to my imagination, especially what is called phrenological mesmerism. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
The conceptive power is shown, as Binet and Féré remark, by the fact that our imagination has done away with the end of a nerve which should be seen at every instant of our lives. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
What were called the exaggerations of his writing were due, I have no doubt, to the extraordinary luminosity of his imagination. What I Remember
It needed to stir the imagination the way acres of unclothed nubile young bodies had in the nudie cutie movie.
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. Tony Robbins
Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination.
Things he did, no matter how adventitious or spontaneous, struck the popular imagination as remarkable. Chapter XI
Its popularity quickly spread, capturing the imagination of Australians both in the bush and throughout the colony.
The creative imagination reconciles inner and outer worlds in metaphorical synthesis.
His music lacked that vital spark of imagination.
‘A roughly graveled area used for parking cars grabbed my imagination,’ she says.
The teenager is gifted with a strong visual imagination that he longs to put on film.
The secondary pleasures of the imagination derive from recollection of objects no longer actually present.
I mean isn't that exactly what the print media and the media more generally should be doing in order to stir up the imagination and to provoke debate within the community?
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. William Faulkner
When, later, in stereometry [solid geometry], an appeal was made to my imagination, it went a bit better, but in school I never excelled in that subject.
I know I shall not be able to describe this trait, yet when I look up into her eyes -- eyes, remember, which are mere fictions of my imagination -- when I look into her face, when I see her move so statelily into my presence, I recognize there that portion of her which she has inherited from the Aphrodite of other days; and this I know is beauty. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Let this burden your mind and spark your imagination. Christianity Today
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Josh Billings
In an instant her mind learns so many things at once that if the imagination and intellect spent years in striving to enumerate them, it could not recall a thousandth part of them. The Interior Castle or The Mansions
It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted.
The emotions are held to the experience and worked into its unity because they go to intensify the thought and imagination, and thus vitalize those activities (1). 2009 April 16 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
She lived entirely by spiritual values, in a world of poetry and imagination.
Johnson, on the other hand, with his razzle-dazzle style, had captured America's imagination, in many ways overshadowing Bird. Bird-Magic showdown of 1979 was start of something special
It was only his imagination, fallible and untrustworthy, that had caused his anxiety. DANSVILLE
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon
His imagination was captured and these formative experiences set him on his career path. Times, Sunday Times
Let this burden your mind and spark your imagination. Christianity Today
But it was Jaguar's E-type that really captured the imagination, combining classic British engineering with stunning good looks and supercar performance.
The eyes of the two men were held on the still hovering crystals as they once again began to pulsate with a mysterious power beyond the wizards' imaginations.
That child has a very active imagination.
She was no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality.
Their imaginations are dominated by the ghosts of the past, in intimate communion with the shimmering world of the dead.
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. William Faulkner
Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality.
They look as if you have something to hide, and the imagination always conjures up something worse than the reality. Times, Sunday Times
She was no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality.
I understand imagination, no doubt a complex epistemological process, to be the capacity to entertain images of meaning and reality that are beyond the givens of observable experience.
The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago.
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. Criss Jami
Many feel the same old idea's are being rehashed and recycled because the respective companies have lost they're inventive imagination when creating new episodes in gaming series.
The story shows plenty of imagination.
Normally I would hop on a bus to get me back home, but this time I decide I'd walk, up the hills and down the valleys one day I'll get lucky (or buy the right equipment) The curlew is a bird that has captured my imagination since I was a child, we used to travel by bus each Thursday afternoon (along the road in the second picture) to school swimming lessons and from the bus I could see the curlews with their scythe like beaks striding through the rough pasture, they seemed very exotic to me. Uphilldowndale
The other Congress chief minister cannot be described as pusillanimous by any stretch of imagination.
Let your imagination roam freely over the facts you have collected.
So any perception by conservatives that progressives are intractable is itself only further demonstration of THEIR absolute unwillingness to engage in anything which might, by even the most reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for reasoned discourse or genuine political interchange. Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
One can imagine that it was the great Earl or Sir Philip Sidney that gave his imagination its moral and practical turn [Edmund Spencer's now], and one imagines him seeking from philosophical men, who distrust instinct because it disturbs contemplation, and from practical men who distrust everything they cannot use in the routine of immediate events, that impulse and method of creation that can only be learned with surety from the technical criticism of poets, and from the excitement of some movement in the artistic life. from → Quotations As Yeats Put it: « Unknowing
A good looking, eye-popping building with zest and imagination at its core is needed to build on York's ‘historical importance’.
Yet the framing of hypothesis is no mere random guesswork; it is left not to the imagination alone, but to the _scientific imagination_. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
Ideal and absurd, they bespeak a wonderfully eccentric imagination.
That seems to be beyond the imagination and capabilities of the sweet-tempered, passive, over-educated, please-play-nice Obama staff whose Democratic-controlled congress has just stripped $12bn from a long-term food stamps program precisely at the time when more Americans than ever hunger, literally, for such assistance. Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win
It would not take a fortune to create a clean and tidy looking river bank and with a little imagination a very good amenity could be created in this area.
Here we highlight five of this year's award winners:Katie CleminsonKatie captured the judges' imagination with her dreamy illustrations, which she creates using inks applied with pipettes. Picturebook perfect
Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
Yah, you better choose something more allegoric like a DNA helix or whatever catches your imagination. Tree Change
Though it follows no known pattern of quiltmaking, and though it is made of bits and pieces of worthless rags, it is obviously the work of a person of powerful imagination and deep spiritual feeling.
Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination.
You are thinking faster and smarter now your mind and your imagination are working well. The Sun
a boy, that diabolized my imagination, -- I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Not by any stretch of the imagination was that swollen, engorged face the same one I'd seen in Buxton and later in Cheetham's office. KICK BACK
I am sorry to say that a pestilent stricture of the imagination, or rather, of the compositive faculty so constrains me that I have not yet finished the poem I have been writing with regard to the discovery and service of this beast. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland
The fertility of his imagination opened up the possibilities of crime as a genre. Times, Sunday Times

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