Sentence examples for imaginary enemies from inspiring English sources
In the final battle, Richard is alone on stage, sword-thrusting imaginary enemies.
I would kick and strike at the air, at imaginary enemies who had killed my imaginary family.
Perhaps so, but I read this account as the chilling self-description of a powerful nation obsessed with imaginary enemies.
When I looked outside, I saw a military-police unit of the Yugoslav People's Army, wearing gas masks, firing blanks at imaginary enemies, and charging uphill.
Admirals watched as the ships fired off volleys of missiles at imaginary enemies — all of it shown in loving detail by Chinese television".
One is reminded of the tawdry fictional dictators of Huxley or Orwell, always tilting at imaginary enemies to motivate the people and bolster their crumbling regimes.
The closest thing to a race was the "chase," when the "fleet" pursued an imaginary enemy.
Excessive detail is your enemy," Mitchell told me, squeezing the imaginary enemy between his thumb and index finger.
By Robert McLaughlin The New Yorker, July 3, 1943 P. 23 How a thirty-five-year-old soldier, with a heavy cold, reacts to a long march, a skirmish with an imaginary enemy, and a gas attack.
Those chemicals lead to the release of still more chemicals, and the chemical cascade escalates in a self-sustaining feedback loop until the response causes the heart or the lungs to fail, and the person collapses — a victim of friendly fire in a battle with an imaginary enemy.
