Sentence examples for particular imagination from inspiring English sources

Or, to be specific, one particular imagination, that of Alice Liddell, the little girl for whom he wrote the Wonderland books.

Baruch Spinoza, the great philosopher of wonder, awe and astonishment, defined the latter in his seminal "Ethics" of 1677 as "the imagination of an object in which the mind remains fixed because this particular imagination has no connection with others".

But in his praise of their wonder, there is a note of condescension: "Admittedly, the ship spotters do not respond to the objects of their enthusiasm with particular imagination.

For that matter, even the constant attention to the material circumstances of the action is realized without any particular visual imagination (with the unique exception of a very brief but wild scene involving flames), without any personal or inventive approach to Nancy's physical struggles.

But on this particular Saturday, imaginations were not directed toward pleasant summertime fantasies.

To study ancient Rome from the 21st century is rather like walking on a tightrope – a careful balancing act, which demands a very particular sort of imagination.

Gross, who had warned earlier this week that "there is a particular boldness of imagination that is alive in the Welsh culture that needs supporting", also welcomed the change of heart.

Gray's point was that so many of the novels that we rejected displayed a particular poverty of imagination in which the writer's autobiography, barely transformed or even disguised, became the basis for a rather plodding novel.

One card trick, in particular, captured his imagination as he set about his research.

One course in particular captured his imagination: a lecture series on building machines that could manipulate molecules.

Nineteenth-century writers in particular had outsize imaginations when it came to doomed child saviors and their sacrificial deaths.