During the voyage many things, some real, some imaginary, happen.
And this, in other, therapeutic, adult hands, became: The two younger children refused to collude with the imaginary creation of the elder child and so she, already pathologically dissociated from the idea of the sovereignty of other people (due to sustained violence at the hands of the father), unleashed her ability to make the imaginary happen.
Mother worked extra hours at the bureau in Rostov, rewriting events so that the human heartache she encountered daily would sound as if it were happening to imaginary people living in far-off places.
She was like an imaginary friend who happened to be visible.
And as you'll notice, in both cases the imaginary history just happened to be one more comfortable to status quo interests.
"It's a distinct idea of a woman I have in my head, but it's almost an imaginary figure that happens in the process of creation rather than at the end".
"I think that people think this is folklore, like maybe this is an imaginary event that happened," Costner said.
In Seven, sound designer Ren Klyce sets the audience on edge during indoor shots by mixing in muffled recordings of arguments and scuffles happening on the (imaginary) street outside.
Is the author really arguing that, because there are potentially nicer people out in that great big world outside the house, the woman should be a shut-in so there is no chance of her happening upon these imaginary people?
"By ensuring we have evidence-based policy and engaging in the debate that is happening, not in some imaginary one".
