But I think he's absolutely pragmatic, and he very successfully imagines an audience that's also very pragmatic.
These films bring to mind a remark by Norman Mailer to the effect that the one character that novelists can never successfully imagine is a novelist greater than themselves.
I'm reminded of a remark by Norman Mailer to the effect that the one character no novelist can successfully imagine is a greater writer.
Lewis then suggests that we can successfully imagine ourselves occupying different "epochs"—specific recurrences of history from the inside.
(It is hard, for example, to see how we might successfully imagine our own nonexistence from the inside).
A world in which similar guarantees to de facto members of our economy, our global culture, our global society, even, if we can successfully imagine these units.
And, since we can equally well imagine living the life of the firstborn twin and that of the second-born twin, while holding the qualitative character of the world fixed, it seems that we can successfully imagine possibilities that differ only haecceitistically.
When she feels sexual or romantic attraction, she eats soap, which, as can be imagined, successfully distracts her.
Sounds and, to a lesser extent, imagined sounds were successfully classified in a network of frontal regions, including superior and middle frontal sulci.
One reaction, nearly universal, was shock that a meeting that few had imagined possible had been successfully negotiated in secret.
