One of the central techniques used by dancers in FLEXN Evolution, an improvised performance addressing racial equality and social justice, is called "bone breaking," imagined as the process of being physically or emotionally broken each day and having to rebuild oneself.
We need not wait for a major catastrophe to hit our favorite break to imagine what devastation might ensue; there are heartbreaking reminders coming out of the Gulf of Mexico every day since the spill.
Advocates of a break-up imagine an amicable split.
It was 20 years ago this month, after pursing my first love of football and looking at every possible job in the NFL, that I got the biggest break I could imagine – a job offer from the American League Champion Cleveland Indians.
I began to imagine "break points": Would they come when I can no longer brush my teeth?
The last thing they need now is a generation that refuses to acknowledge that it is growing old, a thick stratum of privilege, desk-blocking new talent, better ideas, fresh approaches, mainly interested in funding a three-holidays-a-year habit and looking forward to the next chance to romp across the beach to the breaking surf, imagining themselves as lithe and toned as they were in their 20s.
But when these rules are broken, our imagined construct of the world begins to crumble.
It's one of the easiest weekend breaks you could imagine.
And now Don Epstein, cradling her hands in a grip that she couldn't imagine breaking, was sobbing.
"Then she speaks and it's like the finest glass you can imagine breaking: 'Wawrt are you doing here?!'" He insists he has "great respect" for the Queen.
"Can you imagine breaking up the Prado Museum, leaving perhaps only copies in Madrid and taking back each painting to its place of origin?" Mr. Sánchez is awaiting a court ruling after suing the Catalan authorities, accusing them of mishandling documents.
