Sentence examples for imaginative explanation from inspiring English sources

But while the effort is appreciated, the chronic recitation of one imaginative explanation after another easily veers into the ridiculous.

And the European commission has swallowed this line with the imaginative explanation that the two banks are too small to matter from a competition perspective.

Asymmetry is a bizarre anatomic condition, and, right or wrong, this certainly is an imaginative explanation of its presence in this animal.

The study of dreams — which for centuries was more of an exercise in imaginative explanation than anything approaching science — started properly in 1953, when Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman at the University of Chicago hooked volunteers up to EEGs that detect electrical activity in the brain and woke them during different sleep stages.

One 25-year-old told me she had been to every single one of their tours since 1998, and then absentmindedly rattled off each band member's age, spouse, and various childrens' names, as well as a long-winded, slightly imaginative explanation as to why Kevin, age 39, had left the band.

The imaginative explanation of science can inspire them a new interest in real science.

This week Mr Despretz, 41, will publish a volume of the most amusing and imaginative explanations and excuses that he has heard in more than a decade as a flic (plus some gathered by his colleagues).

On the one hand, as French philosopher of science Gaston Bachelard argued, modern science is decidedly "iconoclastic" (Bachelard 1947, p. 77; Bachelard, 1953, p. 122), i.e. bent on replacing images and imaginative explanations by tested, rational concepts and quantitative relationships (measurement, equations, mathematical symbols and the like).

Only the characters' names remained the same; their costumes, locales, and identities were altered, and imaginative scientific explanations for their superpowers generally took the place of magic as a modus operandi in their stories.

The unexpected details in the pictures demand equally imaginative acts of explanation.

A long, imaginative list of alternative explanations was offered: It was a false flag attack, executed by Mossad to fuel anti-Muslim sentiment; it was carried out by the CIA for the same reason; it was French Jews; it was a "black-op power bloc operation" to back up the war on terror; Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the West "playing games with the Islamic world".