Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the famous editor of the Encyclopédie, declared it a "question of national honor not to let the Earth have a foreign shape, a figure imagined by an Englishman or a Dutchman".
The actors play their characters like storybook figures imagined by a smart, curious child.
But I'm pleased to report that I haven't made any unsavory bonds with father figures, imagined or real; that I didn't date the guy on that basis; and that one of my preferred games playing "teens"—pre-dates my father's death.
But I'm pleased to report that I haven't made any unsavoury bonds with father figures, imagined or real; that I didn't date the guy on that basis; and that one of my preferred games – playing "teens" – pre-dates my father's death.
She is too retiring a figure to imagine that the Serbian government would have produce Mr Mladic just for her.
Spender published relatively little poetry in his later years and was inclined to see himself as a neglected figure: "I imagine the young reading nothing of me but the bad notices to other young critics".
(Mr. Iacocca, one recalls, was appearing about a thousand times a week on television in Chrysler ads, and was almost a pop figure. His advance was in the six figures. Imagine what it would be now!) Publishing books is always about speculation, whether a publisher or an editor is taking a plunge with a $15,000 advance for a first novel or a $100,000 advance for nonfiction.
The undercover figures we imagine are not snooping cops but rather heterosexual men who might pretend to be women "that day" to follow women and girls into restrooms.
It draws on personal experience, voting records, demographic studies and polling figures to imagine what the parties would look like, who would vote for them, and which politicians might gravitate to each.
But perhaps the way to think of Fela Kuti is not so much as the African Bob Marley and more as the figure he imagined himself to be – the African Handel.
