Sentence examples for imaginary foundations from inspiring English sources

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Like the "enchanted palaces of our old romances," his theories were built on "imaginary foundations," so that, while they might "amuse the imagination of a poet," they could not "for a moment bear the examination of anyone who has dissected a hand, a viscus, or even a feather".

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The novel is made up of the rambling thoughts of philosophy professor Eddie Coffin: a disorganised middle-aged lush who has stumbled through an academic career at Cambridge and now finds himself, after defrauding a philanthropic foundation with imaginary research, friendless and penniless in southern France.

They further agree that these imaginary constructions lay the foundation for the sort of social, engaged agent we will become.

Fiction is a creation of imaginary things, imaginary people, imaginary events, and imaginary places.

(c) Such theories distract people from recognizing, and working to reinforce, the real foundations of morality: not an imaginary theoretical insight of some sort, but a set of causal mechanisms for inculcating and sustaining the moral sentiments.

Facebook, on the other hand, is based on a solid foundation of angry birds and imaginary sheep.

Much of Słowacki's work was in dramatic form, and although written for an imaginary stage rather than for an intended production, it laid the foundations of Polish tragic drama.

Imaginary kingdoms.

Imaginary characters in an imaginary world.

TERF fears are imaginary.

He created imaginary owners, imaginary jockeys, imaginary track conditions.

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