The first was Waiting for the Barbarians, a parable about the use of falsely imagined enemies for social control.
Many falsely imagined that their pupils were doing well, the study found, and thus did not push them to achieve better.These problems have been perpetuated by an almost complete lack of accountability in education.
In the last act, when Tristan falsely imagines Isolde coming to him, his delusion is expressed by the violins' effervescence and its baselessness by the inactivity of the double basses, declining to participate.
If there's one thing that economists, right and left, agree on, it is that, as Paul Krugman puts it, globalization "is not a problem we can address by lashing out at foreigners we falsely imagine are winning at our expense".
Tsongkhapa has been the subject of poor, misleading scholarship — particularly in the 19th century when so-called "Orientalist" scholars (e.g., Monier-Williams, 1888: 277, 277) falsely imagined him as a "reformer" who founded, or rediscovered, the rational and ethical school of original Buddhism.
Many people, like the woman in my painting class, falsely imagine disease and pain as afflictions confined to old age.
As much as we want to see the person who hurt us as an evil person -- as if they were a major exception to the rule, since we have falsely imagined a perfect world -- we need to realize that we're all an exception to the rule of perfection and expectation.
Many late 20th century philosophers held, in effect, that 'imagine' is a polysemous verb, used to mean different, sometimes quite unrelated, things on different occasions: visualize, think creatively, believe falsely, suppose, pretend, and so on (e.g.: Flew, 1953; Strawson, 1971; Gross, 1973; Dix, 1985; Newton, 1989; Sparshott, 1990; Walton, 1990; Stevenson, 2003).
It was always falsely comforting to imagine that Trump's supporters were far away, marooned in economically distressed corners of the country, places so battered that, frankly, it was easy to understand why Trump appealed.
When we compare, we are usually imagining someone else's life falsely.
Because the boys could more easily imagine being falsely accused of rape, they were more empathetic toward the perpetrators than the victims.
