Sentence examples for local imagination from inspiring English sources

Yet O'Neill's take on the notion of the American dream is both unsentimental and cleverly attuned to that notion's grip on the local imagination.

He came here once, for "Tintin in America" (1932), but though the visit ended with a ticker-tape parade, it was not a success, for Tintin failed to root himself in the local imagination.

In Jamaica, this would include dub poetry, story-telling, theatre (ranging from Jamaicanised pantomime to street theatre) dance and music, all of which are firmly entrenched in the local imagination.

In "Edmund Burke in America" (Cornell), the historian Drew Maciag inventories the many contradictory roles that Burke has played in our local imagination, where, as he notes, "homage to Burke was more a profession of faith than an explanation of policy".

It's like it doesn't even exist in the local imagination.' We stand on a mound of weed-covered landfill near the cycle track, and look left towards the twin towers of the Clays Lane estate, the only housing conurbation in the Lower Lea Valley.

Leo comes from Johnstown, Penn., where a decades-old flood still haunts the local imagination.

And in Cacak, southwest of Belgrade, plans are under way to build a statue of a former topless model, Samantha Fox, a Briton who recorded the hit song "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" and who captured local imaginations when performing in the town.

We had to walk a fine line between too great an informality, which would undermine the fact that he was seeking to promote futures work as a valid and sophisticated tool for thinking about alternative futures for the region, and an authoritative delivery which would stifle local imaginations and stymie his attempts to empower those attending the workshop.

So it's natural that this carbo-rich food sparks the locals' imagination, with dishes that can easily be made in advance.

In India and Indonesia they have entered local Muslim imaginations by way of the Qurʾānic descriptions and Arabic literature.

The image-making has grown in sophistication, but it has long left room for local perceptions and imagination to fill in some of the blanks.