You may find Ballard's willingness to imbue the cadaver, during the very act of its disincorporation, with the mortal elements of an individual life … well, disturbing.
(Although, in the end, the 1997 referendum ended up aiding the devolution process by imbuing it with a popular mandate).
I ask him, too, for his response to the somewhat religious language (references to the "spirit", the "fallen" and "sacrifice" for example) that have imbued the public conversation, especially among political and commemoration leaders, about Anzac.
Yet, unlike the English (and Italians), I am imbued with an Australian contempt for divisions of class, for overt shows of elitism and blatant nepotism.
In the case of two major sponsors, this meant imbuing them with evangelical Christianity, and in another famous case it meant having a fully functioning stock-exchange trading floor in the basement, to show pupils what really matters, which is, of course, making lots of money.
Led by contemporary art critic, editor and Goldsmiths university lecturer Gilda Williams, author of How to Write about Contemporary Art, this highly practical course shows budding arts critics how to imbue both specialist and casual audiences with the excitement of contemporary art.
It is a genuine linguistic affliction that causes confusion and imbues our everyday speech with a clumsiness and imprecision that can be maddening.
It is an undeniably beautiful part of the world; a seductive combination of sea, lemon groves, vineyards and towns imbued with the faded grandeur of a gracefully ageing ballerina.
If you're an optimist, the fact that there are 1.3m apps out there provides a delightful affirmation of human ingenuity and creativity: all those programmers, each imbued with a great idea, beavering away writing code.
"The meat of this turkey," he writes, "is the most flavourful and moist you will ever taste, deeply imbued with the multitudinous perfumes of the stuffing".
Even referendum day was imbued with historical significance, taking place exactly 100 years after the ill-fated Government of Ireland Act had received royal assent on 18 September 1914, the British state's final attempt to appease Ireland on the eve of the first world war.
