DealBook » Wall Street as Mystery Theater | In "Red Cloud Rising: The Fifth Wall," the director Gyda Arber has carefully constructed a fictional world of intrigue around Bydder Financial, a powerful (albeit imaginary) investment bank.
This exclusivity is now entirely academic – the images are widely published on the internet – but it sets a context no less powerful for being imaginary.
Perhaps so, but I read this account as the chilling self-description of a powerful nation obsessed with imaginary enemies.
She was a 5-year-old's imaginary friend: powerful, loving, able to fly through the air whenever he needed her.
Yet for something imaginary, it retains a powerful hold on modern thinking.
As a result, the notion of alief may explain how content that we explicitly recognize to be purely imaginary may nonetheless produce powerful emotional and cognitive responses.
But the blending of the real Wes and the imaginary Wes is very powerful.
The Congolese artist's imaginary cityscapes demand an oxymoron: daintily powerful, say, or deliriously serene.
Mostly these messes resolved into imaginary landscapes, but here he saw powerful animals, crouching, dormant, their force momentarily contained.
The reason, though, is not that he had access to the deeper truth about the Holocaust, but that powerful longings are easily, if temporarily, drawn into imaginary satisfactions.
