The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
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In the battle of imaginary bad men, the hostilities between Satan and Santa are more or less an anagrammatical draw. |
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She has her imaginary gay friend, Stephen, who my brother encourages her to spend time with, antiquing and seeing certain movies. |
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A largely scientifically correct version of an imaginary radio broadcast with apologies to HG Welles. |
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Unfortunately, too, they direct the question at an imaginary West that serves as stage, audience, and arbiter of taste, all in one. |
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In 1834 Jacobi proved that if a single-valued function of one variable is doubly periodic then the ratio of the periods is imaginary. |
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With your arms hanging loosely at your sides and your toes pointed slightly outward, perform an imaginary seated leg extension. |
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As the first step, the aspirants were invited to call a number and leave a one-minute commentary piece on an imaginary situation. |
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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. |
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Except there is a love interest in his latest novel, a spiritual thriller set in an imaginary country very much like Tibet. |
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He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down. |
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For Rodney the imaginary hotel was an idealized vision of an elegantly-appointed hotel, aswarm with chic guests. |
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Although it kept him from becoming entirely eccentric, sadly this imaginary power was not without its drawbacks. |
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The tagua nuts are carved manually with tools to create a unique and imaginary art inspired by the surrounding flora and fauna. |
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I remember a time as a child when my sister and I shared an imaginary world of made-up creatures. |
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Xander gave me a wink before taking one hand and scratching off an imaginary tally mark in the air. |
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Are they all totally imaginary, inspired by real people, or just an amalgam of the make-believe world and the real one? |
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Several blows and parries were executed as images of imaginary foes continued to appear all around him. |
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Making turns, parries and blows against an imaginary opponent Alaina got lost in a constant rhythm. |
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This time, a lonely little girl's imaginary friend turns real and decides that adults are scum. |
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He pretended to dust an imaginary piece of lint from the dark material before returning his gaze to the other man. |
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Colgan said he used the two imaginary crew members as bargaining chips in delicate negotiations with the festivals. |
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A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc. |
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In my dad's game, you turn a threesome into a foursome by adding an imaginary fourth player, a kindly old grandmother named Mrs. Murphy. |
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At least in the imaginary versions for bass tuba or kettledrum I wager to say that he is right. |
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The audience surveys a melange of imaginary figures, and historical ones both famous and obscure. |
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She hurried down, to shoo it off Zed's doona, guiltily brushing away imaginary hairs. |
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As a preliminary step to painting, we briefly discussed the fact that dragons are imaginary creatures. |
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The fantasy creature category contained such imaginary creatures as fairy, hairy Cyclops, and gremlin. |
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To everyone else, all that existed about unicorns was that they were imaginary creatures that roamed the world. |
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In the late 1990s the FDA silently banned Mercurochrome because of its imaginary danger to humans. |
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But is a call to metaphorical arms against an imaginary adversary counter-productive? |
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He jumps to his feet and draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table. |
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The two-ref system sees the soccer pitch divided down the middle, from goal to goal, by an imaginary line. |
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Joyce used his own life and the social milieu of Dublin through which he took an imaginary walk every day of his exiled life. |
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Well I can factor out the imaginary unit number and plot the result on the same graph. |
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Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death. |
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Others hang half upside down off the monkey bars, shooting imaginary spider webs out of their wrists. |
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You basically start out at half court, groups of two, and play one on one from the sideline to an imaginary line that divides the court. |
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He cleaved the head off of an imaginary foe before turning about, parrying a blow by another imaginary enemy. |
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I noticed that his face had turned red and he disguised it by taking off his monocle and cleaning off imaginary dust from it. |
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Carson would then perform a comic monologue which would end with an imaginary golf swing. |
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A family sleeping together is safe from things that go bump in the night, whether imaginary monsters or real predators on the savannah. |
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They loved to tiptoe dramatically across the bridge grimacing in anticipation of waking their imaginary monster. |
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For some of us it was a 'blanky', for others it was an imaginary friend, and for many, it seems, it was a teddy. |
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These people are typologists, and for them every member of a race has all the actual and imaginary characteristics of that race. |
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Kevin Kline addressed the question in the imaginary audience of courtiers that would soon surround the platform stage. |
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Slowly slide your back down the wall until you are in a sitting position, as though seated on an imaginary chair. |
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Although imaginary in itself, the Blue Riband offered immense tangible rewards. |
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Kati whistled happily as she skipped down the sidewalk, walking her imaginary dog. |
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Things actually become worse when Emily befriends an imaginary friend whose erratic behavior eventually turns murderous. |
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In the twisted world of this movie's story line, the young pimp is a good guy, and the mayor of its imaginary city is sleazy. |
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Her imaginary gentleman caller bowed gracefully and dropped the lightest and most proper of kisses on her ungloved hand. |
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They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings. |
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From the point of view of taxation, there is nothing unreal or imaginary about that. |
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The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar. |
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Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale. |
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It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory. |
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It appears that it may have originated in an unsourced, wholly imaginary Wikipedia entry. |
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He has become social with other children, engages in imaginary play, and has started to potty train! |
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Using ArchiCAD as a design and visualization tool, entrants were challenged to create virtual representations of these imaginary places. |
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This is achieved by placing imaginary planes at the mouths of a channel that separates the pore region from the bulk water. |
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The current is computed from the number of ions that pass through an imaginary plane near the end of the channel during a simulation period. |
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The two orthogonal nodal planes separating these quadrants represent the fault plane and an imaginary plane called the auxiliary plane. |
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This indeed was the time that some of the hallucinators had mentioned as the time of the appearance of the imaginary gorilla on the stage. |
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Thus, it appears that our obsession with this imaginary family is flourishing healthily online! |
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He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon. |
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She anxiously put a hand to her bangs, fixing imaginary strays and adjusting the many colored, chunky plastic bracelets on her arm. |
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It's one thing to cast orcs or some other imaginary monsters as being evil. |
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Perez starts mapping the plate with his hands and an imaginary strike zone. |
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Unfixed subjectivity has easy access to resources of imaginary compensation. |
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It said it was meant to be an imaginary episode and no offence was intended. |
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His move into fine art was marked by an exhibition of drawings of imaginary footgear. |
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In play, children create an imaginary situation in which rules of behaviour are formulated. |
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They organised elaborate hoaxes like the bestowing of imaginary honours, which he appears to have accepted with due solemnity. |
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The cheerfulness extends to the look of the film, in particular to its vulgar and loving recreation of an imaginary Swinging London. |
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He peers down at you, over imaginary specs, from the summit of the hill of great wisdom. |
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Her mother raised a hand to her impeccable chignon, patting an imaginary hair into place. |
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In that imaginary reality what drives people to act in one way or another is ideas of honour, chivalry, nobility and heroism. |
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So they started swanning around the room taking elegant drags off their imaginary cigarettes and then immediately pretending to hack up a lung. |
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It is based around the condition of paramnesia, where people completely invent imaginary lives. |
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Patients should be advised that this is a real condition and that their symptoms are not imaginary. |
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These are imaginary landscapes, but within the rich classical Western landscape tradition. |
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He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician. |
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It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis. |
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They conduct imaginary conversations and write letters to their loved ones, bringing closure not completed at the time of death. |
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As I grew older, my imaginary friends took on the personas of real living people. |
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Obsessed with the sky, he watched the stars and the moon, peopling them with imaginary inhabitants. |
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Coquette and cocotte were equally part of the era's imaginary representations of women. |
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It seemed as if people were competing with each other for an imaginary prize for being the most rowdy and ill mannered human being in that room. |
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The imaginary takes on a life of its own, a facticity no less than the now popularly acclaimed facticity of embodiment. |
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My imaginary software company was going to have coffee breaks with free donuts every hour. |
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There exist countless instances of the type, present and past, real and imaginary, actual and potential. |
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The mandala represents an imaginary palace that is contemplated during meditation. |
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I couldn't go into my own imaginary world far away and try to block out all of these problems. |
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How they coped with this transfer of power is a vital part of these imaginary conversations. |
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In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters. |
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The blood was fake and the flames imaginary, but the task facing the emergency services could have been very real. |
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The only saving grace is that most children take it for granted that spirits and the like are imaginary beings. |
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This would mean that your imaginary satellite would need to be located out beyond all the planets, a dozen times as far away as Pluto. |
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These fears are mainly imaginary, and most are born of a highly developed imagination gone astray. |
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He invented imaginary worlds in which he was the king, and everyone had obey him. |
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Is an imaginary campaign manager really the worst political decision you've heard lately? |
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Not only is he a modern star playing a classic star, he's playing him as an imaginary figure. |
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Fears of vote-tampering and vote suppression are far from exaggerated or imaginary. |
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It lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland on an imaginary line dividing the North Sea from the North Atlantic. |
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I bowed to an imaginary crowd and pretended to thank my parents and all who believed in me. |
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The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfilments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date. |
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What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations. |
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It also only worked, he noted, when certain imaginary parts of two complex numbers cancelled out. |
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Another very significant application of the imaginary number to the physical world comes from quantum theory. |
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Furthermore, the images had a dreamlike or phantasmic quality to them, which supported this internal movement toward the imaginary. |
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It is conceivable that the story of our imaginary graduate student might end more happily. |
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They were conceptualized as an imaginary solution to the social problems faced by young, working-class men. |
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A gap inevitably opens up between the imaginary casting of an event and the factual details of that event. |
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The film contains an imaginary radio broadcast in which listeners are alerted to be on the lookout for fifth columnists. |
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I like the way this refers back to the modelled figurines and the imaginary landscapes that fill so much of a child's psyche. |
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Early in their lives, they often spend entire afternoons play-acting imaginary scenarios. |
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No one can ever be really available on our imaginary Pacific desert island mentioned earlier. |
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An imaginary corkscrew and a mimed bottle pouring has stood me in good stead, even in parts of Italy where they barely speak Italian. |
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As the flower girl teetered down the aisle, scattering imaginary petals, Paul started to think about his future again. |
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The rest of the young cast follows suit, miming up a storm, sipping imaginary sacramental wine from invisible chalices. |
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The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass. |
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This phrase originated in theatrical circles where the fourth wall is the imaginary wall that separates the actors and the audience. |
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Beth rolled her eyes at her, then put up an imaginary microphone, pretending that she was a game show host. |
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In the home center, children prepare a pretend picnic for an imaginary vacation. |
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As the subject increased the imaginary voltage, the man who was supposed to have his memory improved screamed in pretended pain. |
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It is the city and the mob that have created the imaginary lives of giants out of the experience of dwarves. |
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In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this imaginary journey and who will tell the tales. |
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He ruined her with his empty, broken promises and his declarations of imaginary friendship. |
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Critics could rightly charge that the report had waxed nostalgic about an imaginary golden age. |
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He said that works of art creations are the imaginary gratifications of unconscious wishes. |
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In this nostalgia for community some would discover utopian impulses, others would decry imaginary fulfilments as ideological. |
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Derek posed for an imaginary camera, blew a kiss to the audience in his head, and promptly bowled a gutter ball. |
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As a result, the dualities of realistic and imaginary, iconic and perspectival, sacred and secular, and copy and prototype begin to break down. |
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It usually involves constructing imaginary walls around minorities and euphemizing the situation by describing it as a mosaic. |
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In the end, one might think that goodness was only imaginary, an exaggerated western virtue. |
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Step four involves creating in your mind an imaginary dress rehearsal that includes calm, confident feelings and a peak performance. |
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Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that. |
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The idea is based on an ingenious use of the properties of imaginary numbers. |
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Chittamatra, or Mind-Only school, presents a threefold classification of reality as the imaginary, the dependent and the absolute. |
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Historically, imaginary numbers first came to light when trying to solve cubic equations, rather than quadratics. |
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The imaginary quickening, marks the period when our ancestors believed the foetus to become endued with life and soul. |
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The breast is examined in a segment arranged in an imaginary radial pattern centred on the nipple. |
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Isn't it a bit weird, conducting an imaginary interview with yourself, on a blog already devoted to furthering your growing egomania? |
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He lives in Jenkins's favourite imaginary town in the west of Scotland, Lunderston, where he is the star player in the local golf club. |
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While the rest of us are barking at imaginary voices and foaming at the mouth, your mind is sitting on a tuffet eating curds and whey. |
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Fogarty shoots off into a rapid-fire imaginary conversation between an agency executive and a newspaper ad sales person. |
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His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water, conducting an imaginary silly symphony. |
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The assortment also includes a space-age ray gun and other imaginary hardware for orbital combat. |
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It may be expressed as IX, where X, the reactance, is the imaginary part of the impedance. |
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Emma's classes have stomped on imaginary snow monsters, jumped like bunnies, and learned to follow like choo-choo trains. |
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Her opponent was left to side-step to stay warm and play air shots to an imaginary opponent. |
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On the other, his film is only a metaphor for an imaginary America so not to worry. |
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Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one. |
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Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too. |
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In a world that was hostile to their practices and beliefs, the Anacreontic tradition will have given them a more sympathetic imaginary home. |
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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! |
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Understandably, the Royal Society of Chemistry has just honoured Holmes with a fellowship, the first time an imaginary character is being recognised. |
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Children would especially be interested in Durer's humorous woodcut of an imaginary rhinoceros that displays an intricate decorative surface that covers the entire creature. |
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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. |
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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. |
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We never see Lisa as others do, nor do we exactly see what Lisa is seeing, for she sees not with an outward regard but with an inner one, an imaginary self, years afterward. |
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She tells him the name of a real ship and says his father is a sailor, even writing letters from this imaginary dad and sending them via a post-office box. |
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You won't find a better dance ensemble this side of that imaginary line that separates the US from the wild and beautiful lands and music to its south. |
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Just as small children project their fear of the dark on to an imaginary bogeyman, the protagonists of the Western economies lay their fears at the door of the Iraqi dictator. |
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Allyson squeezed her eyes together tightly, trying to shove away the images of imaginary green bogeymen running through her blood, attacking her from within. |
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The family had never owned one, but when the boy was supposed to be working, he would be battling imaginary monsters and fiends with his father's scythe. |
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For example, when straightening your legs in cancan or crisscross, imagine reaching your toes as far away from you as you can, as if to touch an imaginary wall. |
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I left my customers to the mercy of an extremely stoned and paranoid Benji, plagued by imaginary ringing bells, and sneaked off to the bar next door. |
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The ordinary numbers sat on the number line running East-West in this map of imaginary numbers, while the North-South direction corresponded to the imaginary part. |
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To escape reality, I invented an imaginary world and began writing poetry. |
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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. |
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They occupy the liminal space between us and other, civilization and barbarism, human and beast, the real and the imaginary, attraction and repulsion. |
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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. |
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One activity is the milkshake laugh, which involves vigorously shaking a milkshake and then letting rip a roaring laugh once the imaginary drink is finished. |
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Pretending and imaginative play also flourish, and imaginary friends are common companions to young schoolchildren. |
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So the only thing she could do was fight imaginary creatures. |
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The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence. |
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And, of course, the imaginary little green man is exactly right. |
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It could be said, however, that the imaginary slide show monologue begat the very real novel. |
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The second-hand bookstalls on the Passeig de Gracia will sell you yellowed copies of Civil War newspapers celebrating exaggerated or imaginary victories over Franco. |
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You small-mindedly assume that without the governance of an imaginary sky cop, a person will just naturally fall into self-serving, pleasure-seeking, negative behaviour. |
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As an autumn wind makes mischief with David McLetchie's remaining locks, Annabel Goldie draws an imaginary halo above his head, while Bill Aitken pulls a face. |
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As the production gags on a surfeit of imagination, you find yourself filling in an imaginary multiple-choice list, ticking off the useful and crossing out the padding. |
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The imaginary surface defined by the stable, or static, water levels measured in wells completed in a confined aquifer is called the potentiometric surface. |
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The passage might suggest, however, that privative time is just imaginary. |
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An attractive young woman, she also sees imaginary people, in the form of her uptight immigrant sister, her dead alcoholic father, and her sex-starved ex-boyfriend. |
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It is almost uniquely Finnish, lines in descriptions of the trip to the imaginary world having counterparts in the Kalevala and also in Sami practices. |
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It's the story of Max, a chronic daydreamer on the brink of adolescence whose crumbing homelife and bully problems are averted by his vivid visits from his imaginary friends. |
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She offered him some imaginary tea, which he politely declined. |
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Little Chelsea seeks solace in her imaginary friend called Jodie. |
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At this point the imaginary cops are throwing me down and tear-gassing me, so I retreat from the Wonderful World of My Imagination, back into the far-safer reality. |
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The men pass the time by dictating letters that will never be sent home, acting out films they will never make, and pouring imaginary drinks that will never touch their lips. |
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But to the girls he was a dirty old man who, real or imaginary, insisted he stand as close to female students as he could to provide math sum explanations. |
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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. |
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Ticknor took place in an imaginary 19th century Boston, The Middle Stories took place in some imaginative realm. |
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It's dredged up from the imaginary cinematheque of Maddin's own mind. |
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Using a combination of real and imaginary numbers, known as complex numbers, turns out to be sufficient to solve virtually all mathematical problems! |
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So could Putin turn inside, Stalin-like, and find imaginary Trotskyist cells among his own cadres to purge? |
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Immortality, he had learned young on, was something his grandmother would speak about when she told them about elves, trolls, and the imaginary world of fancy. |
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When this sound duets with a real or imaginary thumb piano as the track comes to a close, another aesthetic plateau is reached and the music's place in time becomes fuzzy. |
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A doctor friend of ours kindly provided a large supply of surgical masks which I wore constantly to mask the imaginary offensive smells emitting from the kitchen. |
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So that's where a theory or a conception of the imaginary and of the imagination which has traditionally been in the care of our artists, our writers, and so forth comes in. |
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Starting at the ground surface of the foot, an imaginary dot is placed on the toe, coronary band, fetlock, top of cannon bone, carpus, top of carpus and top of forearm. |
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These heroes have served culturally and historically to personify and embody Manifest Destiny, the best of America's imaginary frontier in the flesh. |
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The excitement it caused can be likened to a desperate family's reaction to an imaginary movement made by a comatose patient. |
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Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements! |
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I am not happy with this linear story that branches out, this too-facile mapping of narrative over music, mediated by an imaginary structural diagram. |
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These imaginary inaugural orations are, of course, complete fiction. |
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We live in terrifying isolation, companioned mostly by imaginary others. |
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The first look that copping sent out was an elegant pencil silhouette for an imaginary woman named Catherine. |
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The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room. |
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Even though I am in a happy relationship I plan on purchasing two imaginary girlfriends in the near future so that I can imaginarily cheat on one of them. |
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You have posed a counterfactual question, an imaginary question. |
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They invite the gravel-voiced stranger to rendezvous with the imaginary seductress in the hotel room beside them, which happens to be occupied by an abrasive businessman. |
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Climbers suffering from acute mountain sickness have been known to chat with imaginary companions, see strange visions, and lose touch with reality. |
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The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. |
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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. |
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It lay on an imaginary map of Europe, somewhere between Minsk and Vienna. |
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Rob finished cleaning his empty gun then pointed it at an imaginary target and dry fired. |
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The fourth wall is the imaginary barrier between the stage and the audience, and the phrase is a metaphor for the dramatic frame. |
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I swear it, she was lipless, it was the lipstick that painted imaginary ones on, maybe that's why she was so pale, to hide her liplessness. |
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He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. |
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Sometimes the arches depicted were not even real structures but existed entirely as imaginary representations of royal propaganda. |
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Both Romeo and Juliet struggle to maintain an imaginary world void of time in the face of the harsh realities that surround them. |
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In many applications, the real as well as the imaginary part of the solution have certain physical meaning. |
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The chart at the right analyzes the effect of the imposition of an import tariff on some imaginary good. |
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Fantasy literature is set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. |
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Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. |
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In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan. |
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Instead, he began to focus on groups of figures and odd imaginary characters. |
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He also had occasional spells of imaginary illness, and he is reported to have had books and papers placed in tall stacks in his study. |
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Fordun says that the name came from the grandfather of the imaginary king Eugenius son of Farquahar. |
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It is a derivative of ideal circular cities, notable Filarete's imaginary Sforzinda. |
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On that imaginary island, gold is so abundant that it is used to make chains for slaves, tableware, and lavatory seats. |
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Now slowly lower the imaginary sea level and an imaginary island appears beneath your feet. |
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In a broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story, popular misconception or imaginary entity. |
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Landscape views in art may be entirely imaginary, or copied from reality with varying degrees of accuracy. |
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The object has been claimed by some to represent a Muktaphala, an imaginary fruit bedecked with pearls. |
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The account of Prester John is taken from the famous Epistle of that imaginary potentate, which was widely diffused in the 13th century. |
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In engineering, pro forma drawings are used to facilitate the drawing release of imaginary pieces. |
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The poem re-enchants the bull by setting imaginary walls and thresholds around it. |
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The name evolved into the imaginary General Ludd or King Ludd, who, like Robin Hood, was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest. |
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The axial surface is an imaginary plane connecting the hinge of each layer of rock stratum through the cross section of an anticline. |
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When you are on the weak side, sag off your opponent and form an imaginary flat triangle between you, your opponent, and the ball. |
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The real part is represented by the x-coordinate and the imaginary part by the y-coordinate. |
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It is a strange mix of humour and sadness but there is also an imaginary part, perhaps at the end of the world, but it is still optimistic. |
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However, the racketeer is not simply an imaginary figure concocted by anti-union forces. |
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For obvious reasons the x-axis is called the real axis and the y-axis is called the imaginary axis. |
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Yet, as it currently operates in the social imaginary, yoga can be seen to recenter women as docile bodies. |
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Cue one of the greatest sights seen in a visitors' section as the goalless draw was celebrated with imaginary glowsticks. |
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Claiming his bodice ripper is by this imaginary woman, he wins first prize in a women-only fiction contest and a lucrative publishing contract. |
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Within the solar nebula, lies an imaginary temperature line called the frost line. |
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Perhaps we need voyages to both realms, on either side of the normal imaginary that our bodies inhabit, disappearingly. |
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A snipe hunt is a prank where people are sent on an imaginary quest they think is real. |
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I have an imaginary place, and these are the people who live there. |
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Did you make up any imaginary friends while you were in the caves? |
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The prime meridian is an imaginary line that runs between the North and South Poles. |
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Yes, yes, I know this pair never played the same characters, but read the bit in the standfirst again about some of this being imaginary. |
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Bigby is a sheriff of a town called Fabletown, an imaginary part of New York City. |
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Notice the imaginary part that seems to signify there is no such place, society, or situation. |
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We need no imaginary superbeing to believe in, just believe in yourself and in our human race. |
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This latter analysis yielded an estimate of the imaginary part of the index of refraction. |
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The imaginary part of the complex permittivity shows a clear peak which moves progressively up in frequency as the temperature is increased. |
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She... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world. |
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Bogus biogs are imaginary bionyms which could have provided the celebs concerned with a Bogus more flamboyant title for their life story than history has assigned to them. |
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That's because people use their noses to sniff imaginary as well as real aromas, and the mere act of sniffing scentless air kick-starts odor perception, a new study finds. |
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But in the lyric, the soliloquy is the norm, and many conversations are imaginary, notably in the projective modes of apostrophe and prosopopoeia. |
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Ukrainian, Vitalyj Gummenyi, showcased his robotic interpretation, a move he invented, as he walked the flag up imaginary steps before muscling-up onto the high bar. |
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Thursday 6pm, Newport Library, Blyth Hall, 3 Scott Street, Newport-on-Tay Hamish McHaggis and his creator Linda Strachan take children on an imaginary tour in the Whirry Bang. |
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But if the imaginary Spaniard thought he was leaving industry and all its concomitant unpleasantries behind, he had reckoned without the Black Country. |
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The imaginary frequency of the transition state of the trans-deprotonation step corresponds to the elongation of the C-H bond of the acetylenic proton. |
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He called this imaginary paracosm Ejuxria, and laid out its geography and history with great care, explaining everything to Derwent as he went along. |
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This means that sedimentary facies can change either parallel or perpendicular to an imaginary layer of rock with a fixed age, a phenomenon described by Walther's Law. |
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The imaginary hypotenuse looked along the line of sight to the celestial body or marked the edge of a shadow cast by the vertical leg on the horizontal leg. |
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Most early landscapes are clearly imaginary, although from very early on townscape views are clearly intended to represent actual cities, with varying degrees of accuracy. |
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Other imaginary lines can be drawn, for similar purposes, between the Severn Estuary and the Wash, and between the Severn and the mouth of the River Trent. |
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Producers of the show say it will transport children to imaginary lands with lush jungles and dancing elephants and Arctic ice floes with tap dancing penguins. |
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Highland Single Malts are produced at distilleries north of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock, thus including all of Aberdeenshire and Angus. |
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Francis Godwin's 1638 The Man in the Moone recounts an imaginary voyage to the moon and is now regarded as the first work of science fiction in English literature. |
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That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. |
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Previously in order for unions to be able to qualify, imaginary numbers were used, Celik said, since if real numbers were used only a handful unions could have qualified. |
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The 1979 Michael Apted film Agatha features a disclaimer in the opening credits stating that what follows is an imaginary solution to an authentic mystery. |
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If you're struggling to picture what I mean, imagine someone climbing an imaginary ladder, or a small child doing the doggy-paddle in a non-existent swimming pool. |
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Dishonorable people came to play an important place in the social imaginary of honorable guildsmen way out of proportion with their actual numbers. |
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The dielectric spectroscopy showed that the real and imaginary permittivities increased tremendously as the MWCNT concentration approached the percolation threshold. |
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Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts. |
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He had seen many people die in accidental shootings or, as happened on border duty, someone went bosbefok and let loose with a machine-gun, screaming at an imaginary enemy. |
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I watched you describe how the Lebanese youth inspire you, with their own utopic, imaginary, clean, creative bubble, away from the reality everyone else is living in. |
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As such it is also the key image of its imaginary matrix, its seity, purposefulness, archetypally determined intentionality, and existential project. |
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I've learned to be more comfortable and adept at working with the blue screen where you're talking to an imaginary figure rather than another actor,' said Natalie, right. |
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Walgreens' assortment, which was later pulled from shelves following consumer protests, included a space-age ray gun and other imaginary hardware for orbital combat. |
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Rwanda stands, emblematically, for the stamping out of life on the continent, for the existential negativity that African often emblematizes in the global imaginary. |
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The imaginary Kow is the superhero who battles the Dark Contaminator. |
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