Points for imaginative language.
Imaginative language intensity will be high.
In retrospect, all of the obvious signs of Autistic Spectrum Disorder were there -- delayed speech, lack of imaginative play, repetitive behaviors --but not a single professional had picked up on it.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
Yes, phrases like "on the whole" and "to say the least" are "incessantly deployed in Brodsky's poetry and prose", but these ostensibly redundant parts of speech act like springs, coiled with imaginative force subsequently released.
If it's not too great an imaginative leap, ask yourself how big-shot comics such as Jimmy Carr, Al Murray or Joan Rivers would deliver a bucket speech on the Free Fringe.
All this is told with perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the workaday and the imaginative.
Instead of this limited repertoire of either tolerance or nationalism, what is required, what has been required long before May's speech, and what I continue to believe we are capable of, is an intelligent and imaginative engagement.
In an imaginative stroke, Schoenberg etched Giraud's verses of love, sex, violence and piety in approximately pitched sing-speech over a restless musical terrain.
