But in an act of wonderfully independent imagination, she has concentrated the narrative of "Falling to Earth" on Paul and Mae Graves, the only couple in Marah whose house is untouched, whose children are safe, who lose nothing while everyone else loses everything.
If we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination -- thought-forms that don't flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50.
To be frank, I have difficulty in adapting to mainland CHINA's education system which neglects independent thinking, imagination and stress tolerance.
For this reason, Popper places special emphasis on the role played by the independent creative imagination in the formulation of theory.
Extract from a SoP written for a master program in journalism studies To be frank, I have difficulty in adapting to mainland CHINA's education system which neglects independent thinking, imagination and stress tolerance.
What makes a woman independent is her imagination, a desire to become the shero in her own story and the master of her fate.
It is hard not to look at the world around you and see only the destruction of the things that Miyazaki holds dear, things like the environment, female empowerment, independent spirit, the imagination, artistic craft, and, yes, old-school aeroplanes.
Rudabeh was no feminist, but a thousand years ago she existed in a poet's imagination, an independent woman, knowing the risks she had to go through for love, but also knowing what she wanted, and how to get it.
Kapoor may have made finer films (Awaara, Shree 420), but Barsaat's songs (marking the debut of music directors, Shankar Jaikishan) of vulnerability, innocence and heartache, captured newly independent India's fragile imagination.
But it's more impressive when a subject amply documented by historians is transformed into an independent work of the imagination, and we keep reading not because our knowledge of the past is being enhanced but because the fiction earns our attention in its own right, as a verbal adventure that uses historical material without being constrained by it.
Why is it that, when we invent characters, the process of invention involves an excavation from the subconscious, as if we were trying to remember someone we knew decades ago; while when we write of people we know, we see them in our imagination as independent entities who are essentially strangers to us?
