In a toast at their wedding, he called Power "one of the keepers of idealism in America," who "remains almost giddily unreconstructed in her imagination of justice".
Sylvia Plath's baroque Daddy, overseeing her imagination of herself as the archetype of wandering suffering, is the great gift that never stops giving, and Olds has no shame in exploiting this figure over and over.
It's a tribute to her imagination of last summer in her garden, and a perfect excuse to dodge the CMJ melee and escape to an organic good-vibes past.
Now, as the passage on the garden smells shows, she is more likely to trust the sensuality of her imagination, to glory in the world.
She coaxed from the players, an uneven lot, a mystery and grandeur that spoke as well of her imagination as of her technique.
She had imagination — the muscle of the soul — and her imagination was of a particularly strong, almost masculine quality.
For three minutes, she swans around the stage in bra and panties — a yenta's idea of recklessness — while recounting any old thing from the bargain basement of her imagination: the price of her belt, the name of her cobbler, the year she bought her cowboy boots.
Nina retreated into books and her imagination instead of being worldly from the travelling she has done.
Meanwhile, a writer's true success — in the sense of her ability to write something original and meaningful — also depends upon the range of her imagination, the precision of her critical faculties, and, crucially, the extent of her capacity for empathy.
This man, whom Lauren names Mr. Tuttle and who may be no more than a figment of her imagination, demonstrates unusual gifts of mimicry and prescience, qualities uncannily reminiscent of those possessed by the character Karen in "Mao II".
Throughout the book there is the continued sense of the substantiality of her imagination, from the detailed map of Earthsea on the frontispiece to the learned, almost austere, essay about the history, culture and magic of Earthsea at its end.
