A photo of only the bride makes it the groom seem imaginary.
Then, the incident seemed imaginary.
Why do we villainize our rapists in a way that makes them seem imaginary?
"It seems odd to have an imaginary playmate who's always too busy to play with you," Martha, my wife, said to me.
And everybody, it seems, is shadowed by an imaginary other person, a lucky counterpart, who gets all the happiness going; Lacan writes of "the jealousy born in a subject in his relation to an other, insofar as this other is held to enjoy a certain form of jouissance or superabundant vitality".
Literary historian Jack B. Oruch points out that the holiday had no romantic pretenses "either literary or social in customs, before Chaucer". Given the thousand-year gap between Lupercalia and the imaginary avian assembly, it seems unlikely the two were related.
I've been playing with it for the last 10 minutes or so, typing out imaginary to-do lists ("challenge unicorn to fight"), imaginary love letters ("Dear Jessica Rabbit…"), and imaginary headlines ("Unicorn slayer Simon weds Jessica Rabbit!"), and it seems to be doing well.
It is an imaginary story whose truth is assumed because it seems to make morality possible.
Yet his imaginary island somewhere in the Americas is not all it seems.
Duncan (and Ms. Orlean, it seems) was annoyed by comparisons people made between Rin Tin Tin, a real dog, and "the pretty but imaginary Lassie".
As the car worked its way closer to Kandahar, the spiritual heartland of the Taliban, it seemed to cross an imaginary line.
