Sentence examples for imaginary set from inspiring English sources

She is a fictional character, drawn from Lewis's life but endowed with a completely imaginary set of circumstances and actions.

"He had these big goggles on, with an elastic safety strap, and he would do this occasionally" — she craned her neck and raised her hand to an imaginary set of goggles — "and then look at me, as if posing".

Mr. Greenspan sets the scene himself, transforming the mundane stage directions ("Left, just below the stairs, is a small stand and a telephone... ......) into an involving little prologue, conjuring an imaginary set in precise detail.

State of Wonder is passionate about nature – but Patchett has used a real jungle as a setting for a fictional conflict, and an imaginary set of dilemmas based around an invented ecosystem.

And just as the threat of Communism was wildly exaggerated 50 years ago, so, these days, "the global war on terror is in practice an American war in the Middle East against a largely imaginary set of enemies".

"He had these big goggles on, with an elastic safety strap, and he would do this occasionally"—she craned her neck and raised her hand to an imaginary set of goggles—"and then look at me, as if posing".

Falls, North Carolina — maybe named for a street in Gurganus's actual home town of Rocky Mount — has been the imaginary setting for most of his fiction.

Its imaginary setting is Comenia, described as a Czech land that remained independent when Bohemia and Moravia joined Slovakia to become Czechoslovakia.

Now, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and the imaginary setting he painstakingly built, Middle-earth, has become that "vast game".

Falls, North Carolina maybe named for a street in Gurganus's actual home town of Rocky Mount has been the imaginary setting for most of his fiction.

Groell discovered more about Martin's imaginary setting while editing The World of Ice and Fire, a forthcoming companion book to help fans navigate the expansive areas described in the novels.