Sentence examples for disaster imagination from inspiring English sources

The students of São Luiz took part in the Protection Map Game (PMG), designed by Cemaden and inspired by the Disaster Imagination Game, a Japanese method for disaster prevention.2 The aim of this workshop was to develop a response capability among young people during an imagined emergency.

In the popular imagination, disasters give rise to disorder -- looting, pillaging, society unraveled.

It reminds us that our imagination of disaster is dangerously more fertile than our imagination of the ordinary.

As is normal in such situations, epically shocking events open up the imagination of disaster.

"Omniscience strikes me as an incomparable disaster, paralysis of the imagination, universal silence," she says.

As different as he was from Henry James, he possessed a full measure of what James called "the imagination of disaster".

"Ours is indeed an age of extremity," Susan Sontag concluded in her 1965 essay "The Imagination of Disaster".

In her 1965 essay "The Imagination of Disaster" the literary critic Susan Sontag reflected on psychological meaning of such escapism.

ARTS An article last Sunday about three recent films that focus on survival misstated a word in a passage from Susan Sontag's essay "The Imagination of Disaster".

But, even if we go with the conceit and give it its proper name — metaphor — it is striking how conventional Aronofsky's imagination for disaster is.

Cinematic visions of apocalypse, as Susan Sontag wrote in her 1965 essay "The Imagination of Disaster," allow the viewer to "participate in the fantasy of one's own death" and "the destruction of humanity itself".