Sentence examples for imago from inspiring English sources

The life cycle of mayflies consists of four stages: egg, nymph, subimago, and imago.

The difference in organization is so profound that the transformation cannot be achieved gradually, and an intermediate resting, or pupal, stage is interposed between the larva and imago.

For example, the standard periodization for post-embryonic ontogeny in arthropods is a barrier to evolutionary analyses of molt-timing evolution because the conventional periodization is in terms of molt-to-molt intervals subsequent to hatching, which are then grouped into stages (larva, pupa, and imago for insects), irrespective of differences in the timing of the molts (Minelli et al. 2006).

It is from essence in this sense—say, human being as rational animal or imago Dei that ancient philosophy drew its prescriptions for an individual's way of life, its estimation of the meaning and value of existence.

A favourite imago mortis was to show the kings, splendidly clad and with hawks still on their wrists, holding their noses as they gazed in horror.

Heavy pigmentation along the veins may give the wings of the subimago a mottled appearance that rarely persists in the imago.

This imago-Gestalt of virtual wholeness, identified with by the infant in a jubilant moment of "Aha!," lays down the imagistic nucleus of the thereafter ontogenetically accreting ego as a series of self-objectifications in images and, soon after with the event of language acquisition, words too.

For Lacan, identification with the imago-Gestalt of the moi entails alienation and this for additional reasons over and above those given in the preceding paragraphs.

The ego is an "other," a not-me misrecognized as "me," insofar as it is brought into existence through a combination of an object external to the (proto- subject (i.e., the imago-Gestalt of the body image) and the interests of Symbolic and Real Others investing this object through words and behaviors.

The exhibition at the Biennale runs through Oct. 27, but Benetton plans to install "Imago Mundi" permanently at a later date.

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