Sentence examples for an imaginative construct from inspiring English sources

Reagan was not introverted, yet from infancy he had the same kind of "happy" self-centeredness that Bradbury speaks of, the same need to inhabit an imaginative construct in which outside reality was refracted, or reordered, to his liking.

Like Dutch, he competed with a popular, extrovert elder brother by "making happy things for myself and creating new images of the world for myself". Reagan was not introverted, yet from infancy he had the same kind of "happy" self-centeredness that Bradbury speaks of, the same need to inhabit an imaginative construct in which outside reality was refracted, or reordered, to his liking.

Atwood calls debt an imaginative human construct derived from a sense of need or greed and a sense of fairness in reciprocity and equivalent values.

The potential intellect is considered unable to respond to these imaginative constructs on its own, it needs an agent to activate it, to move it from potentiality to actuality.

With his elaborate battery of imaginative constructs, Pullman is all set to make his assault on the demands of his plot.

Others are just pure imaginative constructs but of course the Legion sequence is just one section of the book, it's not all that is in there.

Scholem was determined to uncover the more exalted strata of a suppressed tradition, partly to complete and clarify the historical record, and partly to disclose arcane and majestic imaginative constructs, themselves marvels of the human intellect.

Religions, nations, and even races are all shared imaginative constructs (although nations and races have other characteristics as well) and if you really want to extirpate them, you must extirpate the people who imagine them as well.

Striving to assemble language into art, I want to construct an imaginative world that is entirely my own, which is neither confessional nor abstract.

And, yes, it would be possible for an imaginative remuneration consultant to construct a spreadsheet showing that, even though Sutherland's salary will be bigger than that of any chief executive of a FTSE 100 company, his total package is somehow the "going rate" because the Co-op, as a mutual, hasn't got a share price and thus can't dangle share options in front of its executives.

This goal of constructing a "green GDP" is an imaginative one.