Touches like doors with wrought-iron strap hinges and windows with muntins also hint at Mr. Schafer's predilection for the past, while adding to the imaginary sense of a house that has grown and changed over time.
Incidentally, he and Ms. Herzog are married — a fact I normally wouldn't note in such a context, except that it somehow seems to underscore my (perhaps imaginary) sense that these young writers and their sympathetic acting and directing colleagues form a small but important new school of contemporary theater, or to put it more sentimentally, a new family.
Hawking and the American cosmologist James B. Hartle have proposed that it may be possible to avert a beginning to time by making it go imaginary (in the sense of the mathematics of complex numbers) instead of letting it suddenly appear or disappear.
She is an imaginary person in another sense too in that Eileen has imagined her.
(My notebook from the concert includes the phrases "hymnlike" and "pastoral Americana," along with "anthem to that imaginary land"). But the sense of longing in that melody also had to do with the circumstances of its creation.
A novel is in that sense entirely imaginary, but in the film of a novel even a minor character, evoked on the page in a phrase or two, needs a frock and an accent and something plausible to do.
Still, despite the virological liberties of "28 Days Later," Mr. Boyle and his collaborators, including Alex Garland, who wrote the screenplay, have imbued the virus's imaginary properties with a sense of political and social purpose, giving the movie a power that exceeds what is often expected of the sci-fi horror genre.
Her feverish monologues about giant catfish and migraine headaches and imaginary friends clearly make sense to her, if not always to the audience, but that's fine; soon enough the band kicks in again for another electrifying confrontation with Southern musical forms.
On the one hand he emphasised modern science's aversion against images and the imaginary, notably in the sense that scientific research challenges our narcissistic self-images (the idea of human beings as something exceptional and unique) and tends to disrupt imaginary (e.g. mythological and religious) worldviews.
Roger Dean, who designed album jackets for numerous bands and worked extensively with Yes, created imaginary worlds with a sense of imagination and grandeur that matched the music.
Image, impersonation, celebrity, performance: all are questions in a sense of our imaginary identification with other people.
