"popular imaginary" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most often used to describe a widely-held notion of something, either real or imagined. For example, you could say: "The popular imaginary of the perfect job includes a high salary and flexible hours."
However, at the same time, lahars were still seen as a danger (just less so than those threats embedded within the popular imaginary).
The real problem is that highly complex geopolitical situations are being reduced in the Western popular imaginary to apocalyptic fantasies.
Rahat and Jack Vale are back with another photo prank, this time doing the inverse of their popular imaginary friend gag.
By its inventive attempts at visualizing the secret workings of the mind, it carries ambitious educational potential and contributes to shaping a popular imaginary of human psychology.
Through a more context-sensitive analysis of this data, this paper argues against this popular spatial imaginary and the notion that the Louisville's West End is somehow separate and apart from the rest of the city.
The golden age of the pulps came to an end in the 1950s, as paperback novels, comic books and television became more popular means of delivering imaginary adventure and melodrama.
Or is their music more likely to be filed in the "popular" section of your imaginary record shop?
Despite the public's political exhaustion after a decade of real war, imaginary war remains as popular as ever.
(3+) The Gruffalo Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 20 Dec - 7 Jan 0207 722 93011 Touring stage version of the wildly popular children's book about an imaginary monster.
Mr. Eno has said that for him making popular music is about "creating new, imaginary worlds and inviting people to join them," a sentiment that Mr. Assayas no doubt understands.
Even more derisive, Stéphane Calais turned down the invitation to travel to India thus ensuring that his drawings retained all the exotic spice of popular fiction, deliberately conjuring up a wholly imaginary vision of India.
