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Sentence Examples His obsessive imagining of a lost civilization seems to have joyfully regressed to the thrill-seeking bent of an adolescent model-builder. Death can only be thought of as mysterious when we try to understand it by imagining it. His secret masters of the world may be a myth, but imagining they exist can make for an enjoyable reading experience. I bought it on Friday, imagining that we'd spend the weekend raking up leaves together in the warm winter sunshine. I used to spend idle spite-time imagining new slogans for its advertising campaigns. But while it has plenty of gentle slopes, do not let this fool you into imagining that it is purely for softies. I thought of her as I wrote it, enjoyed imagining her having it always near at hand, lying on the wicker stool by her armchair at home. You tend to think negatively and torture yourself endlessly by imagining the worst and procrastinating about major decisions and changes today. I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like. You breathe in reluctantly, imagining you're inhaling the fumes from your shoe. It is also no good imagining that landslide victories are any guide to legitimacy. But the world was to pay a price beyond imagining for the consolidation of bureaucratic misrule in the Soviet Union. Bolyai's new world can be visualized by imagining a triangle drawn on the surface of a saddle. A lot of magic is about visualising, imaging, strongly imagining in your mind's eye. The main reason we have a hard time imagining these scenarios isn't just that the technical problems are daunting. Caci began hallucinating, imagining Bailey there at the hospital with her, talking with her. I used to sit and stare at the sky for hours just imagining what was out there. I sealed the letter and stared out the window at the starry night sky, imagining that Alex was staring at the same sky in Krakow. When Debbie brought up the matter, the other woman insisted she had said nothing of the kind and told Debbie she was imagining things. Scene after scene I kept imagining some off-screen trainer with a grub in his hand, prodding Link to do his bidding. Show More Sentences It was told with such passion and energy that it was difficult imagining a hurdle they could not overcome together. Macbeth cannot contemplate kingship for himself without imagining turning his sword against the king. It's about imagining how to implement different program management styles, or how to collect data, or how to advocate on issues. A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way. I said imagining her putting on her best frock and heading for the bright lights that is Blackpool illuminations. Eve rents a summerhouse in the village of Norfolk, imagining that it would be an ideal summer retreat set amidst an idyllic surrounding. We've moved from imagining a little homunculus lurking in the sperm to one hiding in the genome. Unfortunately however, they were the only landscapes that painters and illustrators were in the habit of imagining. The uninitiated could be forgiven for imagining that the tradition of heading to a holiday camp for a summer knees-up was in terminal decline. Hold the image of that person in your mind, imagining that their suffering is alleviated. Relaxation exercises, deep breathing or simply closing your eyes and imagining a peaceful scene may help. I spent nights lying in bed imagining I was presiding with Warren Burger or John Jay. Gone is sophistry, the elegance of understatement, the joy of imagining the concealed, regaling in the revealed. I watched a man struggled with the stubborn engine and the snow on his car, imagining that he wouldn't be in the best of moods. Each of these is based on some subtly revisionist imagining of history that ring as falsely as Spielberg's film. We have all kinds of ways of imagining the future that distract us from actually living in the present. There are also the businessmen with briefcases who look nervously at my camera, imagining that I am a paid spy. As in most of Polanski's films, the world is so dauntingly evil the protagonist grows incapable of imagining an alternative future. A long time ago he began to lose his mind and he started imagining things that are not real. He slips it into his pocket, almost imagining that he can smell lavender and cigarette smoke even in the damp of the city. Show More Sentences The foundered journalists standing for around two hours outside were imagining the headlines. This woman was all curves and surprises, and I immediately began imagining the secrets that lush body probably cradled. I ask someone to ask him what they catch with them, fondly imagining that it must be some tasty, exotic marsupial. At the very least, it is a considerably malnourished imagining of how, why and for whom intellectuals write. Where he went wrong was in imagining that the same small numbers could then sustain occupation of the country. The man lightly traces his hand over the fabric, feeling the texture and imagining the day it was worn. At first I thought I was just imagining it, but then it became clear that the trees were thinning out. You torture yourself endlessly by thinking negatively and imagining the worst today. Low instruments such as tuba and baritone horn make a sonic imagining of the hippo. He likes to look at the handsome couples and the odd couples, imagining how they met and what will happen to them next. Deduct 10 points for imagining that George might apologise to all concerned. It would be like imagining that ancient Mediterraneans thought and behaved like middle class Americans. When the actors aren't really inhabiting it and imagining, it can feel like a University revue sketch going on for hours. There are, of course, some writers who would dissuade us from imagining any radical change in this area at all. Taking hold of the oars, I would row the punt around and around in circles, imagining that I was captain of my own craft. He answers by imagining how our liberated civilization will mesh with the genetic revolution. Ali rolled her eyes, imagining being ordered to read and copy chapters about having proper posture. Were the jurors who looked over this degrading garment imagining one of their own children being forced to wear it? Danielle snapped out of her trance of imagining construction workers dancing around while trying to wipe dirt out of their eyes. Then he employed his tactics in his mind's eye, imagining various scenarios which would call for certain actions. Show More Sentences Two short years was enough to take me from imagining what it must be like to be that person, to actually being that person! Yet, put simply, movie-makers have budgetary reasons for imagining that the worst will happen. Only those moments that show democracy's birth and possibility, along with its decline and failure, become resources for imagining our future. So that's imagining the brain as something like a computer with inputs and outputs and a black box in between. Again, I have difficulty imagining anyone casting their contraceptives to the wind on hearing about this one. The conversations we are imagining are cooperative attempts to find joint solutions to common problems. If the trick works, the movements ranged against us will disperse, imagining that the world's problems have been solved. This inhesion may be imagined in many ways, but two major modes of imagining it come to mind from Tillich's pages. I talk myself out of imagining world war-styled bombing blitzes or trench warfare, and replaced them with images of land mines and machine guns. With all that physical toiling in the fresh air one could be forgiven for imagining farming was the ultimate in healthy occupations. Jenny loved the look of the school house and began imagining her new life in its charming, quirky interior. I had expected some reaction from imagining stories of those who did not make it home. If you look at dolphins, orcas, and blue whales, all fully aquatic animals, you would have a hard time imagining them walking on land. The images of them flying around the house imagining themselves as their favourite anime hero is too cute. You can see this by imagining two spots of paint on a strip of elastic or on a rubber band. Still I laughed, imagining the defiler, a disgruntled person with a black felt pen. Do we identify with the ungainly, terrified wretch who will soon be dead meat, or do we get a thrill imagining ourselves as the sleek, athletic predator? Hers is a dark response to his beautifully written coming out that invokes vultures in imagining the world he is entering. I swear she was wearing a beret and striped tights, but I might be imagining that. A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a Bona fide superhero. Show More Sentences He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin. And they end up drinking the same drink, in the company of the same people, fondly imagining that because they moved through several pubs, this is really where it's at! Cohn rejoins by pointing out that such an imagining cannot be discursive, because, for Foucault, discourse must be enforced across a single ontological plane. As a child, he worshipped leaders like Malcolm X and remembers having imagining Africa as a mythical place. Following an earlier argument for an apophatic approach to theologizing about judgment, this essay investigates some theological resources for imagining judgment. For just a moment, I froze and found myself imagining what it would feel like to break a pelvis. The monster was still beyond imagining when Prince, known as P.J., told his godmother that he wanted an Italian ice. I had just started a low-level job at the Village Voice, imagining it would be, even in this beleaguered climate, a bastion of what was left of the Left. There is a big difference between imagining not shaving and actually trying to not shave. The soul could conceivably exist without a body, as Descartes tried to show when he carried out the thought experiment of imagining himself subject to demonic deception. But I am communing with Handel, for example, who experienced the most powerful mystic exaltation as he wrote the Hallelujah Chorus, imagining himself in the presence of God. The commodore is probably imagining us in sleek, tippy competition shells. They diminish women by imagining them in a variety of uniforms from the very worst top-shelf publications because they know it's a foolproof way to put them in their place. He then murders his girlfriend and chops off a certain body part of his own, all while imagining the cause of this to some sort of supernatural evil. For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing. And if you are imagining Satine from moulin Rouge floating around on a diamond swing, think again. I was imagining yesterday what it would be like if those tanks were at San Francisco airport, motoring up Highway 101 into San Francisco, lobbing shells along the way. His play unforcedly implies that all of life is like that, social interaction being built on shared goals and the imagining of a project more important than its achievement. I bet she was imagining the horrors that we were going to go through. You need to be imagining a big slobbery dog chasing a stick now. Show More Sentences Every home game he maneuvers his classic Volkswagen bug down to the ballgame, finds his mid-mob box seat, and enjoys imagining himself in the game. In imagining new futures, it is strategic to reject a view of ourselves as neutrally immersed in a present beyond our control, determination, or hope. He was imagining and piecing together the possible happening. The straight-laced history of the capital became a focus for dreaming, a site for imagining a city which could better shape the lives of its inhabitants. The villagers slept peacefully, never imagining the fate that was to be. He is good at imagining the details of these hypothetical lives. Caught in my imagining, I miss the U-turn of the escort truck and am jolted by the roaring four-by-four off-roading as it swerves around our vehicle. But most Canadians have no trouble imagining that grim scenario. Presenting symptoms can come and go with such rapidity that even the patient herself may wonder if she is imagining things, although her suffering is real enough. For many years there's been a belief that this is a psychological condition, that it doesn't really exist, that the patients are imagining symptoms or malingering. With nothing tangible at stake in terms of league positions, one might have been forgiven for imagining that it would develop into a fairly mundane affair. We're imagining that the first show will run something like this. Em wasn't imagining the bitterness she fancied she heard in her voice. The points are found, explains Sara, by imagining a baby in an inverted foetal position, with the earlobe representing the head, the concha the internal organs and so on. Sam chewed contemplatively on her spoonful of lukewarm bean-and-asparagus stew, imagining what it would be like to be a graduated member of the League. Once, imagining he was playing in front of an audience, he finished with a flourish, and stood up and bowed to the applause thundering in his ears. There were young couples like us and old crusty looking investor types measuring the land and imagining how many units they could squeeze onto the property. Like hypochondriacs constantly imagining they have various fatal illnesses, cyberchondriacs declare themselves outrageously sick after reading medical material on the Web. I was busy imagining the eccentric old rock polisher who donated these wonderful little irregular cubes of wonder to the store while on his deathbed. Human beings debate and discuss ideas, constructing arguments, drawing on past experiences and imagining future possibilities, in order to change the opinions of others. Show More Sentences A deep laughter coming from beside me completes the illusion of devilry, and in imagining my assailant images of animalistic ritual costumes spring to mind. We found rare edelweiss by the path and picnicked on a grassy shelf, imagining free climbers, like spiders on the soaring pinnacles around us, mocking our apprehensions. I had no problems imagining the fear gripping those on board. Frail elderly people could be excused for imagining that our society offers them little beyond goodwill, sympathy, and the hope that they will stay out of sight. I've lived existentially for 25 years, imagining a moment at a time. There's something delicious about imagining Snow White with a reciprocating saw, and it's true. Leveen imagining the fourteen years leading up to the events in the play from the point of view of the nurse. After release, Scottie frequents the places that Madeleine visited, often imagining that he sees her. Before imagining that any cyber squatter can take a gTLD and abuse it, know that owning one of these domains doesn't come cheap. They say imagining the audience naked is the best way to tackle stage fear for a host. It is an imagined community in the sense that the material conditions exist for imagining extended and shared connections. Though weAAEd never make the mistake of imagining Parisians eating lutefisk, weAAEre happy to imagine Dunne-za communing with whales. I don't get such a kick out of anything as much as out of imagining a crime. It's all about imagining being outside and enjoying an exquisite yet rustically inspired meal. However if you're imagining Gruff Rhys is some zoot suit wearing hepcat, think again. As long as no rational person dares utter it people will go on imagining it means stoning us all to death, and the yellow press will have won. It sounds a bit actressy but it was a very odd and emotional experience imagining what it's like to die. Philip Stone argues that dark tourism is a way of imagining one's own death through the real death of others. The mutiny marked a crucial shift in the colonial imagining of India as unantagonistically feminine. His inferiority complex means he spends all his time imagining how he wouldn't have lived up to Robinsons from previous generations. Show More Sentences Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves is a novel imagining how the version we have might have been invented out of older tales. However while diasporic imagining might be homogenizing the diaspora has not been formed by a singular process, are not culturally very similar. What feminists, especially intersectionalists, have been imagining as identities needs to be exchanged for descriptions of social circumstances. The team has established a vulval sentinel lymph node imagining service across three sites. When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society. Johnny has state-of-the-art access to the Net and I've been in cyberheaven, staring at images of Sarah Bernhardt and imagining her with my greatgran. He might have been imagining substances such as dopamine that are released by the brain under certain conditions and produce rewarding sensations. She would sit here sometimes, perched on a bag of concrete looking at the big lumps of four by two and imagining what she might do with them if she had a chance. This transformed and enriched countless girlhoods and, more broadly, signified recognition of a dignity in womanhood largely beyond the imagining of many earlier cultures. I HAVE spent many a happy hour imagining myself as a human Wile E Coyote, spraying the road with industrial a strength glue or scattering tyrepoppingly-sharp thumbtacks. Inhale, then exhale again and flex at the hip, lifting one leg, then the other, gently unweighting the legs by imagining they're levitating off the ground. But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet. When the itchy scratchiness crept, literally, onto my head I started getting suspicious but managed to persuade myself that I was just imagining things. Examples from Classical Literature There was Byronic pleasure in imagining the loneliness that would be his lot. I lived for men on the pretext of living for God, while she lived for God imagining that she lives for men. They are searching the shop, knocking the books about, imagining we are hidden among them! This was no implausible ground for imagining that his death had some other cause than the yellow fever. She's too charming a person to grow restless and faddish, imagining she wants occupation and not a husband! She smiled to herself again, imagining question and answer with Ruffo. He clasped her gently, imagining that he might calm her by his embrace. Could they be wrong in imagining that they had reached the Ionian Islands? He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were. That King, flushed with his victories, and imagining to fight was undoubtedly to conquer, sought all occasions of giving the Abyssins battle. Instead of imagining a character simply, they realize it, objectify it. At the lake he became afraid, imagining that a mountain lion was near. She was always imagining him ogling at every woman that he came across. For the record, my wife tells me I'm imagining both my fidgetiness and balloonlike qualities, but let's face it, she's biased. The National Guards, imagining that Petion was to be berated, let him out. I can't help imagining that perhaps just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us. And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word. His earthly future, a future of his own imagining, drew him. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly discipline and zeal in the service. But they turn delusional in imagining that military prepotency and projections of armed force will reduce China to a marginal player in the region. Show More Sentences Then he privily took a dose of active poison, imagining that it would not fail to kill either himself or the devil that possessed him, or both together. In the darkness the young reporter found himself imagining that he sat on the railroad ties beside a comely young man with black hair and black shining eyes. Teta Elzbieta would put the clothesbasket in which the baby slept alongside of his mattress, and Jurgis would lie upon one elbow and watch him by the hour, imagining things. Lichtenstein used comic strip clippings instead of live models for his series of nudes, imagining how the comic book characters would look nude and then painting them. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of imagining? Words that rhyme with imagining What is the plural of imagining? What is the adverb for imagining? What is the adjective for imagining? What is the noun for imagining? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words imaging imagines imagined imagine imaginativeness imaginatively imaginings imagism imagist imagistic imago imagos 9-letter Words Starting With i im ima imag imagi imagin imagini imaginin