Sentence examples for suppress imagination from inspiring English sources
Suppress depictions of lust and horror, Tashlin implies, and you suppress imagination itself which nonetheless is often better left imagined.
Suppress depictions of lust and horror and you suppress imagination itself — which, however, is often better left imagined.
Although Cook is maddeningly coy about who actually killed whom, he writes eloquently about the fears that lead people to equate intelligence with madness, suppressing the imagination and taking refuge in mediocrity.
Written by a group of young intellectuals, it decried China's "infatuation with America," which had suppressed the national imagination with a diet of visas, foreign aid, and advertising.
Essinger writes that Lady Byron wished to suppress her daughter's imagination, which she thought to be "dangerous and potentially destructive and coming from the Byrons".
Jia's tenderness for his characters is infused with a quiet rage: as the wide-screen views freeze them in a confining emptiness, dead zones of action and dialogue suggest a land where imagination itself has been suppressed.
When Ingi Friedlander and Jonty Jack sit in his lonely desert studio, sipping marijuana tea and talking art, you sense how famished South Africans became, after long years in a penal camp, where imagination was banned and feeling was suppressed.
Freud would appreciate its assertion that "civilization only works if instincts are suppressed," though he might warn against its methodology: "Confine your imagination".
