As many eloquent observers of far-flung places — from Graham Greene to V. S. Naipaul to James Fenton to Pico Iyer — have shown, scenes of misery that would appall the eye in more fortunate nations can captivate the literary imagination in the third world.
As "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" sparked readers' imaginations in the nineteenth century with its portrayal of the rather elfish and jovial Santa Claus, his scarier companion, Krampus, had remained, perhaps appropriately, in the shadows.
Not that I bail on any movie that fails to spark my imagination in that first 20 minutes.
"The Tree of Life," Malick's latest, is his fifth feature in thirty-eight years.… To understand what Rabindranath Tagore meant to the European imagination in the early twentieth century, it's not enough to look at the rapturous response to… Epidemics have piggybacked their way on wars across the world for thousands of years.
What were you are looking at here is different from the "lingerie dressing" of seasons past, a formula of satiny slip dress, fishnet stockings, maybe a bit of lace or fur trim, that left little to the imagination and required still less imagination to conjure in the first place.
The freedom of the current age of sexual explicitness invites realms of characterization — and of intimate imagination — that the first film in the "Fifty Shades" series hints at and the second one utterly ignores.
Even the cult of white supremacy on which his movement depends has its origins, too, in the positive-negative structure of the Western imagination, a structure erected in the first place to keep Jews in their place.
Once again it is useful to begin from Kant, who distinguished two uses of the imagination: the first in ordinary thought and perception, the second in aesthetic experience.
In May, Sorenstam captured the sports world's imagination by becoming the first woman in 48 years to play a PGA Tour event, the Colonial, where she did not make the cut.
