The-magical sounding term comes from the Greek οὐ ("not") and τόπος ("place") and is used to describe imagined communities or societies that appear to be perfect.
A female undercover police officer, claiming to want to start a sexual relationship with Mr Stagg, encouraged him to describe imagined fantasies about the killing.
This kind of textual reclamation has been going on since a few bored Georgians had a go at adding new chapters to Samuel Johnson's deathly dull Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded — the most famous of which, Henry Fielding's absurdly unfunny but naughty for the time satire Shamela, basically led us to where fanfic is now: a smut-riddled-swamp of grossly described imagined sex between famous people.
He describes "imagining the body as a mirror of the world that sustains us".
Rolling Stone described "Imagine" as Lennon's "greatest musical gift to the world", praising "the serene melody; the pillowy chord progression; [and] that beckoning, four-note [piano] figure".
What I'm describing (imagining would probably be more accurate) is a process of viral social change, and change of this kind, which is nonlinear, is never something anyone can plan or predict or count on.
This creative capacity is what Jean-Paul Sartre is referring to in L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'ima-gination (1940; "The Imaginary: The Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination"; Eng. trans., The Psychology of Imagination) when he describes imagining as "the positing of an object as a nothingness"—as not being.
Some authors spanned the range: in one session Mohammed Hanif, author of the popular novel "A Case of Exploding Mangos," discussed extrajudicial executions in western Baluchistan Province; in another he had the audience howling with laughter at his account of describing the imagined anal examination of a former military dictator, Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq.
In addition, smart-beta funds are not buying the same stocks as most trackers; they act as natural balancers of the market.The PwC report on the asset-management industry in 2020 begins with describing an imagined young Chinese woman who uses her smartphone app to buy, in a single click, a range of funds that most meet her needs and risk appetite.
Conversely, of course, Simpson is describing his imagined version of the evolution of flightlessness in rheas.
In 1979, he authored a bestseller titled The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, which followed up on Capra in describing the imagined connection between modern physics and Eastern mysticism, emphasizing the holistic interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by the brilliant physicist David Bohm--who later became a mystic.
