We have better and more elaborate imaginations — and, one presumes, a greater capacity for being haunted.
Murray was drawn inexorably to planners and designers, people whose structures of thought, elaborated in the imagination, might someday thicken into what she called "firm reality".
Mr. Tirelli considers himself neither a figurative nor an abstract artist and draws on a vast archive of accumulated objects, drawings and photographs to build his images, which are finally elaborated in his imagination, rather than taken directly from nature or actual objects.
This freedom to elaborate with your own imagination appalls many other evangelicals.
If the Caucasus becomes a burial ground of nations, he writes, "all of us will be so much the poorer, our civilization closer to a dull uniformity, our imagination less elaborate and our minds a bit more inclined toward the simplistic".
But Maria, who works in book publishing and possesses an exceptionally active imagination, embroiders elaborate mental fictions about Luisa and Miguel.
The girls, played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, are both possessed of rich, even febrile imaginations, populating elaborate make-believe worlds with princesses and princes (who tend to resemble their favorite film stars) and mythical beasts, which become more real to them than their everyday schoolgirl lives.
"I would elaborate on those in my imagination, almost like meditating, I would sit and imagine those horrible experiences and eventually your muscles connect to your brain and it settles in.
With an air of objectivity and spontaneity, his productions are closely dependent on his own powers of imagination and an elaborate technique.
"Dinotopia," which has its premiere tonight on ABC, was born more than a decade ago in the mind of James Gurney, an illustrator and author who while on assignment for clients like the National Geographic Society would let his imagination loose, sketching elaborate fantasy cities.
