(Though having watched my mother die, I can now perfectly imagine my own death).
"You can perfectly imagine that these machines would be sitting in a dusty basement, and no one could remember what they were for," Dr. Brenner said.
I can perfectly imagine the struggling young writer stretched on her bed in the tiny dark bedroom bolting down Colette and Henry Green or bending over a notebook at the kitchen table, as the Little Bride in "Cortes Island" does, "filling page after page with failure".
The solo horn opens the work, adds perfectly imagined atmosphere to the songs, and then, in Pears's words, "winds the work into stillness".
A strong sense of being caught up in change pervades all of them, even if history is observed from a very particular perspective - that of a perfectly imagined town peopled by a cast of colourful and eccentric characters.
All praise to the much-sainted Steven, then, but let us add a few words about, well, Lincoln's words, so perfectly imagined and recast by Tony Kushner, and so perfectly inhabited by the great Daniel Day-Lewis, who in his last few roles has been acting on some other plane than any we have been familiar with before.
Death is "endlessly drifting" on the stormy seas "with the family ghosts". This should be a sort of hell, but Kunitz perfectly imagines the relief of relinquishing perhaps our greatest burden, our "name-tag" and the cumbersome relationships we have with ourselves.
The main character is a perfectly imagined twelve-year-old named Julia, but this is not young adult fiction.
Our high school glory days may behind us, but Wareheim perfectly imagines hometown camaraderie in this empowering-yet-somewhat-surreal clip. .
Performed by singers Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton and Lisa Fisher -- all featured in the documentary about professional back-up singers "20 Feet from Stardom" -- they embodied the spirit of a song so perfectly imagined that that it felt centuries old.
The Great American Novel: A book that most perfectly imagines the kaleidoscope of our nation, its social fabric and its troubled conscience, its individual voices and strivings, our loves and losses.
