The phrase "capacity for imagination" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person's ability or potential to think creatively and come up with new ideas. Example: "The teacher praised the student for her exceptional capacity for imagination, as she consistently wrote imaginative and captivating stories."
We're skinny and bright, with a capacity for imagination that lends itself to paranoia and social anxiety.
Out there, in eternity, the human version of living stands as one of the richest, valuable in its capacity for imagination and spontaneity, gentleness and courage.
The medievals had a tremendous capacity for imagination and enchantment, and while nobody but the deepest romantic would want to go back to their way of thinking (let alone their way of life), it's a tonic to visit from time to time.
In an era of cinema where drama is primarily used to provoke an emotional response, rather than to stimulate thought or engage one's capacity for imagination, the finer subtleties of a novel are often lost in a dizzying haze of bright lights, fast cars and CGI upon transferral to film, Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia being just one of a cornucopia of examples of this that come to mind.
And is it possible to know whether our brains' capacity for imagination is still evolving?
In The Creative Spark, Fuentes makes the case that human innovation, past and present, is ultimately a result of both humans' innate capacity for imagination and our primate ability to collaborate.
She encourages us to expand our capacity for empathetic imagination by cultivating our curiosity, seeking friendship across religious lines, and establishing a consistent ethic of decency and civility.
One of the enduring lessons of Mandela's legacy is shining the light on the power of empathy the subject of my discussion today even empathy for our former enemies on the human capacity for moral imagination and understanding.
But, as with McDermott's other books, its satisfactions lie not so much in its story as in its language, which is glorious, and in McDermott's capacity for sympathetic imagination with the inhabitants of the world onto which she opens a window.
The skill of acting well in complex social situations has interesting links to the capacity for moral imagination.
To the Fed, we should send the inscription from an address delivered by Ronald Reagan in 1983: "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder".
