Sentence examples for catastrophic imagination from inspiring English sources

But I'd been cursed with a compulsively catastrophic imagination, and had often involuntarily imagined the worst.

It's as if Freud was trying to sequester not only the past, but the catastrophic imagination that made it into an artefact, the ruin aesthetic itself.

A book-length poem in which the painter Matthias Grünewald, the naturalist Georg Steller and the author himself inhabit a meditation on the sources of the catastrophic imagination, the continuities between nature and human nature, and issues of coming into being and passing away.

This is a catastrophic failure of imagination and a signal absence of a sense of the true values of civilisation.

This was the point at which Adorno — together with legions of German musical pundits and pontiffs who followed him — experienced a catastrophic failure of imagination.

This was the point at which Adorno together with legions of German musical pundits and pontiffs who followed him experienced a catastrophic failure of imagination.

Unfortunately, the governments, militaries, and philosophers leading us there appear to be suffering from a catastrophic failure of imagination.

The Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Joseph Thomas, described the situation in northern Iraq as "catastrophic, a crisis beyond imagination".

Given what Pinto and his brothers were doing in 1960, it beggars my imagination what catastrophic antics their predecessors were up to; in fact, I dont want to know.

But what "Mother!" achieves, by the catastrophic reach of Aronofsky's imagination and the grand scale of his filmmaking, is an object that fuses with its subject, a movie that thrusts its bottomless maw of voracious ambitions and desires at viewers and defies them to see his world, and their own, in it.

She identifies, for example, Austen's overwhelming "need for everything to be settled to let imagination flower", and the catastrophic results when she was torn from her home.