The phrase "concrete imagination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vivid and tangible form of creativity or visualization.
Example: "The artist's concrete imagination allowed her to bring her fantastical visions to life on canvas."
Alternatives: "tangible creativity" or "vivid imagination."
A French alpine town that exists both in concrete and in the imagination.
Until now, there had been only a vague, mysterious sense of an invisible microworld; Dalton's atoms gave the imagination something concrete to chew on, made this tangible and real.
In a way, his argument gives us students hope too, that designing architecture isn't just shots in the dark and pure imagination, but concrete and reasoned problem solving.
In the migraine sufferers group, quality of life (WHO) had as predictor, with negative charge, the capability in expressing emotions and fantasies (ALEX3), and in the control group, a concrete thinking style, without imagination and fantasies (ALEX2).
The binary regression analysis of the division variable of both clinical and control groups revealed that migraine might characterize individuals with high anxiety, low quality of life in the physical domain (WHO1), and presence of a concrete thinking style, without imagination and fantasies (ALEX2).
Far from being the dull, drab concrete monstrosities of western imagination, most of them are tall, awe-inspiring buildings.
Penned-in, straight-sided deadly green lines of sitka spruce are no closer to the woodlands of our imagination than a concrete road: the antithesis of freedom and nature.
A mysterious work for six dancers — set to a wide-ranging score by Michael J. Schumacher and using video imagery by Willy Le Maitre as its décor — "she dreams" shows Ms. Gerring's poetic imagination and very concrete ability to create fascinating dance that can look simultaneously simple and complex, drawing on ordinary movement and showing us its complicated underpinnings as we watch.
When I think of works of fiction set in Paris, I immediately enter a mindset that is ruled by excessive imagination and visually concrete detail; I am reminded of Muriel Barbery's "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéryrince".
