"To some extent, merely
imagining an experience is a substitute for actual experience.
The 6 career statuses in the INCOME framework, which occur across demographic and cultural groups, are
Imagining, iNforming, Choosing, Obtaining, Maintaining, and Exiting.
One of the favorite subjects of artists is "the future" and
imagining how things might be someday.
First, Spiegel took the girl aside and asked her to trick the physicians by first
imagining that a balloon tied to her wrist was taking her anyplace she wanted to go and by then picturing having fun with her friends there.
I'd learned the trick years earlier, when I cut through my supercilious teenage scorn of my too-loving mother by
imagining what my life would be like if she hated me.
At Microsoft Business Solutions, we're
imagining that world every day.
Okay, now you're on your way to
imagining the life of Anna.
So next time you're
imagining something, imagine the trees that are being cut down to support your 'exploration of the possibilities for progress and reform in the metropolitan area.' I say let's give the trees a break, and get back to news and analysis that is grounded in reality."
Confino's contribution to Burgertumsforschung analyzes how the bourgeoisie shaped German national identity in their own image, the vehicle of which was the "Heimat idea", a way of
imagining the nation in terms of the local.
In
Imagining Rabelais, Anne Lake Prescott, a scholar whose previous work includes a study of French poetic influence on Renaissance England, examines Francois Rabelais's impact on English Renaissance writers, from the very obscure to the most well-known, in the first half of the seventeenth century, up until, as she puts it, "Thomas Urquhart's obstreperous 1653 translation made him part of English literature" (vii).
Paley recognizes the moral responsibilities of all people, including creative writers: "The word `imagination,' as we're given it from childhood on, is really about
imagining fantasy.
Within this general definition, Currie then introduces two distinctions: perceptual versus symbolic
imagining, and personal versus impersonal
imagining.
I am struck by how similar the act of
imagining the future of gay parenting is to the act of
imagining my son's 30-year-old face when I have yet to see his baby smile.
Imagining the Middle East, written by Thierry Hentsch of the Universite du Quebec (Montreal), serves this purpose through detailed investigation of Western imagination as reflected back to us by our view of the Orient.
