"It requires little imaginative power to see what conclusions will be drawn in Pyongyang," he said, adding that anyone in the senior leadership who favored denuclearization "will now be silent".
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
I find the analysis straightforward and highly convincing, and the conclusions, even though daring and imaginative, are well within the expected limits of scientific interpretation.
In conclusion, I outline how the concept of imaginative geographies provides a useful lens through which the often fragmented and conflicted nature of territorial identities, both during and after the colonial period, can be explored.
The result is a drama of cues and clues, not conclusions, the kind of self-spooking vision an imaginative, bookish kid might cook up in the cellar of his parents' house.
It contains a vivid imaginative thought experiment that is presented in support of an anti-materialist conclusion, namely that perception is inexplicable by means of shapes and motions.
One can reject a conclusion, but it is much harder to reject a process of imaginative expansion, and if we take the link with drama seriously, it might seem as silly as "rejecting" King Lear or Hamlet.
With a conclusion like this Magnus was soon being compared to Mikhail Tal, the most imaginative world champion.
Mallon provides, among other things, an imaginative treatment of the Nixons' marriage, and persuasively teases out the psychological drama of a story with a foregone conclusion.
