Sentence examples for history imagination from inspiring English sources

For more than 100 years, the firefighters of New York have been devising clever slogans for their firehouses, drawing on history, imagination and quirks of personal character to identify themselves and to distinguish their companies from the rest of the department.

Mine is just one version out of a million Larry fanfics, I just happened to work with my own history, imagination, and skills in creating live performance.

"Twilight's Last Gleaming" epitomized a paranoid, quintessentially '70s moment in American history and imagination.

The author is an influential Cambridge historian.The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination.

Tatarstan's capital, Kazan, fell to Ivan the Terrible in 1552 a defining moment in Russia's imperial history and imagination.

It can only lie in what are rightly called the humanities, the history and imagination of human beings.

A fanciful device born equally of history and imagination, the Telectroscope will visually connect New Yorkers to people in London.

His fear, he wrote, was that unless children could be won over to history, "their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of the eternal now".

Here and in the final story, "The Star Attraction of 1919," the distance of history — and imagination — brings the emotion and freshness of his writing to the surface.

Mr. Naipaul has also been acclaimed for "A Way in the World" (1994), a sprawling work that attempts to fuse many of his favorite themes, freely mixing fiction and nonfiction, novel and memoir, history and imagination.

A daring novel, the winner of the National Book Award this year, in which, off and on, narrator merges with author and history with imagination in the career of a grand 19th-century Polish actress who knocks 'em dead in California.