Sentence examples for imaginary adversary from inspiring English sources

He punches an imaginary adversary on the the floor Brett Lee-style.

It was another common city sight, except that his words were completely comprehensible, as if he were talking to a real person, not some imaginary adversary.

Come on, what's better than that?" During his audition, the Ukrainian-born Mr. Treybich emptied the pockets of his blue jeans and unleashed a side-kick so fierce that he sent his foot through the chin and nose of his imaginary adversary.

Travis is the actor's signature role, and the improvised scene in which the taxi driver, armed to the teeth and glaring at himself in the mirror, rehearses a confrontation with an imaginary adversary -- "You talkin' to me?" -- is one of the most famous passages in American film, right up there with Brando's "I coulda been a contender" aria in "On the Waterfront".

Though the auction houses make it devilishly easy for spotlight-shy art lovers to bid in absentia relaying their bids to a client-services representative stationed in the salesroom you can easily wind up bidding against an imaginary adversary, a practice affectionately known in the trade as "bidding off the chandelier".

So maybe, since it turns out Cowherd is the one hostilely opposed to the free market, he should take the advice he gave to his imaginary adversary -- move to Norway.

But if we put historical experience and inflammatory rhetoric to the side, it quickly becomes clear that both countries are shadow boxing with imaginary adversaries.

His name is Mr. Zero, and he's the ultimate imaginary accomplice and adversary -- the menacing black man as scapegoat.

His name is Mr. Zero, and he's the ultimate imaginary accomplice and adversary -- the menacing black man as scapegoat -- programmed both to live forever and never to exist at all.

He sets up an adversary, an imaginary person from the opposition to "debate" -- first argument, then counterargument.

The magazine L'Express said the poster controversy threatened to harm Dujardin "in the final straight" of the Oscar race, which it said was like a political campaign where "everyone is ready to exploit the slightest weakness of their adversary", real or imaginary.