If, therefore, the highest good is impossible in accordance with practical rules, then the moral law, which commands us to promote it, must be fantastic and directed to empty imaginary ends and must therefore in itself be false.
I'd like to think of self-help in this way not as a ten-day program, a book to complete, a juice fast to endure, a conscious rebirthing, or any other means to some imaginary perfect end where I arrive whole on the other side.
'When I derived the idea for the book, I thought of setting it in an invented place with an invented language.' That this imaginary place ended up as Hungary was inspired in part by a Hungarian girlfriend, as well as memories of the 1954 World Cup.
Football is ripe for satire, of course, with its undisguised militarism, its unfamiliarity with the language of irony, its Lombardi-esque moral elevation of stakes that are, in the end, imaginary.
In responding to an imaginary threat, we ended up making the economy less dynamic and less flexible.
Among other things, she imagines herself as the prosecutor questioning key witnesses and writes long sections of imaginary testimony — most ending with Perry Mahon-style "ahaha!" moments.
His Sunday performance delivered adrenaline in the form of loud space rock, shredding through classics off Melted like "Girlfriend" and "Imaginary Person" and ending on the title track from Slaughterhouse.
That project is a series of crime novels set in a Russia of a more gilded -- and, some critics say, largely imaginary -- era, the end of the 19th century.
David Cone, who left the Yankees for the Red Sox this week, rides back into the Bronx with the bad guys, breaks up the place and swaggers out, blowing imaginary smoke from the end of his extended index finger.
The team saw those movies, set in a world of futuristic bikers, as a sort of antimodel: a fanciful, imaginary version of the end of the world, not the grim, all-too-convincing one that Mr. McCarthy had depicted.
