Tóibín's skill lies in imagining Mary's embittered perplexity without shutting the door on the story's miraculous element.
Athletes and dancers improve their work by imagining themselves practicing physical skills, and musicians get better after imagining a performance.
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In the rest of article, "spatial skills" refers to the spatial visualization skills that carpenters use to imagine a 3D object from a 2D paper representation, and the other way around.
If when creating a scene the floor is critical, then imagining a floor item should supersede imagining an SD object in our scene construction paradigm.
So, last August, I wrote a column quoting Andreas Schleicher — who runs the global exam that compares how 15-year-olds in public schools around the world do in applied reading, math and science skills — as saying imagine, in a few years, that you could sign on to a Web site and see how your school compares with a similar school anywhere in the world.
That's an oversimplification, but you can see a shift in emphasis and imagine a difference in skill-set accordingly.
In contrast, imagine a second example.
It is hard to imagine a more vital skill to lifelong success than reading.
And yet in another 5 years, it isn't hard to imagine a workplace where those skills are an absolute necessity.
Try to imagine a Prince in shining armour, now imagine him sparking up a fag.
