Sentence examples for imaginary meaning from inspiring English sources

The former would find in art all the rest of history (social conditions, biography of the artist, etc)., but would omit that part which is proper to art; the latter would judge the work of art in abstraction from history, depriving it of its real meaning and giving it an imaginary meaning or testing it by arbitrary standards.

Unfortunately the physical meaning of imaginary time is not clear.

It provides no answers (true or imaginary) about the ultimate meaning of existence.

Don't be confused by the tendency in English and many other languages to use the word "imaginary" as opposite in meaning to the word "real" -- and neither should it be confused with the term "image".

Female bodies are defective male bodies, marked by lack, the lack which forms the necessary and negative opposite to the plenitude of masculinity; meanings matched with imaginary associations in which female bodies are experienced as chaotic, formless and threatening.

From what we gather, this project can give meaning to the whole "imaginary travel" fantasy.

It is real and imaginary and it is a repository for meaning, memory and human interaction.

If such larger questions are "pataphysical" – meaning they, like their answers, are imaginary – are they even worth asking?

Furthermore, the red curves obviously shift towards the lower photon energy in Figure 2, meaning that both the real and imaginary parts of GaAs29/32 N1/32Bi1/16 have redshifted.

The symbolic is Lacan's term for the way in which reality becomes intelligible and takes on meaning and significance, through words; the imaginary refers to the mode of intelligibility offered by images.

When he recorded the song he was 33, meaning he was singing to an imaginary girl less than half his age.