Sentence examples for imaginary living from inspiring English sources

Conversing over hot button issues that affect New York, and determining wealth factors of imaginary living spaces, the citizen curators may start off timid but are soon completely engaged, putting passion into the discussion, as they realize these scenarios are not just games, but affect them too.

In Ms. Ephron's "Imaginary Lives," with the men in their lives relegated to the role of supporting player, the two women continue to hold center stage.

The author is well aware of the jarring contradiction between her real and imaginary lives.

Since then, people in the photos have acquired names, relationships and imaginary lives.

A history of Latin American literature could be compiled following that genre alone: the classic example is Jorge Luis Borges's A Universal History of Infamy, based on real characters and inspired by Marcel Schwob's Imaginary Lives, in turn suggested by Aubrey's almost imaginary Brief Lives.

But their strangeness shook something deep within, and instead of helping to resolve troubles in practical ways, they expanded the very sense of what it was to have inner worlds and imaginary lives.

On Saturday evening, at the climax of the opening week of the 2013 Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Discovery award was won by Yasmine Eid-Sandagh and Rozenn Quéré for their Possible and Imaginary Lives project.

Great writers hit us over the head because they present characters whose imaginary lives have real consequences (at least while we're reading about them), and because they see the world in much the way we do: complicated by surface and subterranean feelings, by ambiguity and misapprehension, and by the misalliance of consciousness and perception.

As I watch their gestures — head bending over a menu, hand reaching for a hand across the table — I wonder how it is being just this person, or that one, and soon I'm engulfed in a city of imaginary lives.

In their introduction, the artists write: "Far from being a factual or historical portrait of Graziella and her sisters, Possible and Imaginary Lives is an attempt to convey the eccentricities and imagination of these women so as to give their imaginings the same status as reality.

When the novel won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literary Award in 1991, one of the judges, John Updike, wrote that "McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own".