Father and son feature in "The Ulysses Syndrome," which sets out to explore the cross-cultural identities shared across the generations and the psychic dislocation of transience; fine fodder for Mr. Bokaer's rigorous, acute imagination.
Reviewing "Michael" in 2005 for The New York Times, Roslyn Sulcas wrote that Ms. Young "is interested in bodies in space, and her vivid, rigorous theatrical imagination keeps her deploying them in challenging and mostly intriguing ways".
To look at the litany of Friel plays is to witness a rigorous and restless imagination in full flight; from the early radio plays to the growing assuredness of The Enemy Within; from the breakthrough play, Philadelphia, Here I Come! to the annus mirabilis of Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations and on to Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee and The Home Place.
The Higgs mechanism was proposed on the basis of imagination and rigorous thinking, with only crude guidance from experimental data.
If Ishioka had a problem, it was that her commissioners sometimes couldn't match her combination of wild imagination and rigorous discipline.
Just as his spirit takes naturally to "rigorous content," so his musical imagination takes naturally to contented rigor.
An essential modernist experiment, as rigorous and unsparing in its imagination as the glare of the midday sun that falls upon its cynical protagonists.
Eric Cantor's most recent tantrum in response to the Occupy Wall Street is characterized by false outrage and political analysis that cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called rigorous, or even thoughtful.
As for the question of jobs, we hear much about the need for entrepreneurs in business and technology, but what we also need for future prosperity will be an entrepreneurship of the imagination, encouraged by a rigorous immersion in the liberal arts, which might lead to currently unthought-of solutions to currently unimagined problems.
I don't write fiction, but I'd think that a rigorous combination of observation, reflection and directed imagination would have a similar result.
