Sentence examples for imaginative experiment from inspiring English sources

What does it mean to be born into a world of risk and imaginative experiment, the novel seems to be asking, where the boundaries of the self and the body politic are suddenly remade?

A more engaging, because more imaginative, experiment, elaborately developed over many pages, is an ironic inversion of "picturesque Austria" that makes up the book's central image: a man-made lake on whose dead waters, thick with malignant algae, no ducks will alight, where children instinctively fear to swim, and where, almost fittingly, two strolling men find the corpse of a murdered girl.

Zeki has gone on to test part of his thesis in a fascinating and imaginative experiment, recruiting a group of young men and women who claimed to be "truly, deeply and madly in love" and imaging their brains as they look at photographs of their beloveds.

In this imaginative experiment, in which the spectator is operating on the edge of a contradiction, the spectator's idea of the agent's situation plays a large role while his idea of the agent's actual feelings has a role only in that the agent's happiness is itself evidence of his tragedy.

His answer was to perform imaginative experiments with students.

But if e-voting is no panacea, there are no good technical or political objections to imaginative experiments with this and other new forms of popular participation.

Sociological themes with a marked political thrust and imaginative experiments with composition and form are dual passions for Graciela Iturbide, the widely admired Mexican photographer whose touring retrospective exhibition is now at the Parrish Art Museum.

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.

Sensible analogies, metaphors, imaginative thought experiments, stories, and anecdotes: he utilizes these devices because they allow readers that are accustomed to conceiving of things by means of the senses and the imagination to attain an introductory understanding of theses and principles that are abstract and distinctly conceivable only through the intellect (not the senses or the imagination).

Cushnahan said the "courageous and imaginative" power-sharing experiment of 1974, set up under the Sunningdale agreement, had been destroyed by a combination of IRA violence and the Paisley-led "fascist" Ulster Workers Councill strike.

Many of these points were made through the imaginative use of "thought experiments" in which Darwin constructed possible scenarios through which natural selection could bring about substantial change.