Sentence examples for imaginary figures from inspiring English sources

But like the imaginary figures conjured by the painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, or the archetypal "Afro Muses" in Chris Ofili's watercolors, they contain multiples.

Leo Burnett centered his empire in Chicago, where he created imaginary figures to sell products — Tony the Tiger, the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Jolly Green Giant.

Other of these imaginary figures are naive science-fiction writers, or the creators of adventure stories, or, in the case of Argentino Schiaffino, the poet of myth and epic for the thugs of the football terraces.

And hence, too, the lure of entirely imaginary figures: the sadistic emperor Saturninus, in "Titus Andronicus"; the corrupt deputy Angelo, in "Measure for Measure"; the paranoid King Leontes, in "The Winter's Tale".

But, just as Chekhov never resolved his ambivalence toward actual guests, so he never resolved his ambivalence toward the imaginary figures who, peering over his shoulders when he wrote for the theatre, inhibited him as he was not inhibited when he wrote stories.

They were able to perceive God's revelation through their imaginative faculties via words or real or imaginary figures.

Who was that imaginary figure: Western hero?

Alotrios, an imaginary figure sets forth his ideas on fame and theology.

Furguson turns out to be an imaginary figure representing Old World/New World anxieties and antipathies.

Old Yang made a sweeping gesture, as if following the trail of an imaginary figure moving beyond the range of our vision.

Like Ms. Lohse, who joins them later, they sometimes do vivid facial and gestural mime, alternately addressing one imaginary figure stage right (cheerfully) and another stage left (alarmedly).