The implications of such findings, that poverty of all kinds literally reduces imagination and the ability to shape one's own life, are presented as somewhat revolutionary.
Thus while taste is "itself a species of sensation … in respect of its principles, [it is] justly reduced to imagination" (Gerard 1759, 160).
A national network that helped to medicalize depression in the public imagination would reduce sufferers' shame.
The electric blinds rose like a curtain on a West End production and there stood the protagonist: the former general charged with crimes against humanity that almost defy the imagination, reduced to a hollow-looking old man in a blue-grey suit and matching tie.
If you look at it like a game, it helps reduce stress, helps gain some imagination, AND it could make the whole thing a little bit more fun.
A central part of the political regime in 1984 was the removal of words to reduce their force and shrink our imagination.
Strategies to reduce complexity are manifold: examples are system modelling, contradictory analysis or prospective imagination.
For Bradshaw, slavery has been reduced, in the public imagination, to sex — miscegenation.
For Bradshaw, slavery has been reduced, in the public imagination, to sex miscegenation.
The one contributes real-world relevance, the other reduces didacticism and enhances imagination.
