The amount of time expended by children indoors on screen-based entertainment and the "remarkable collapse of children's engagement with nature" has drawn criticism for its negative effects on imagination, adult cognition and psychological well-being.
In 1977, Chatwin described the region as having "an effect on the imagination something like the Moon".
For Scott the effect of going further back in time to the reign of Richard I had a loosening effect on his imagination.
To grow into adulthood aware that someone, somewhere, can destroy the world with a nuclear bomb, does tend to have a profound effect on the imagination.
Lucy Ellmann says she resents and fears Christianity because of, among other reasons, "its deadening effect on the imagination".Last time I checked, Christianity was the inspiration for 2,000 years of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music.
5), illustrates what I would call secular fundamentalism when she writes that she "resents and fears Christianity not only for its sexism and incitement of violence but for its deadening effect on the imagination".
How strange, we think, that a sentence that was written to explain an aspect of modern poetry can have roughly the same effect on our imagination as science fiction".
Those intimate stories had never been shared in such a wide and public fashion and the reception of "Roots" had a catalyzing effect on the imagination of many black writers.
In an essay published on the Web site of Powell's City of Books, an independent bookstore (www.powells.com), Mr. Martel wrote that even though the review he recalled "oozed indifference," Dr. Scliar's concept had "the effect on my imagination of electric caffeine" because of its "perfect unity of time, action and place".
Sweetest of sounds now to be heard is the jingle-bells of the peepers from the marsh: their phantom sleighs ride by at dusk laden with unremembered and unheard-of things, the effect on the imagination like that of sleighbells in snowtime.
