Mr. Corigliano regarded this as a test of imagination rather than technique, since the number of repetitions affect the shape of the piece.
It is a test of political imagination — of our ability to accept basic, necessary changes in structures of governance — but also a test of moral imagination.
The true test of the imagination, noted Samuel Butler, is to name a cat.
This might be explained by the fact that the TAS questionnaire is, in some ways, a test of the imagination which is an important component of hypnotic ability.
After the Bucks Free Press he went on to the Western Daily Mail, and by 1973 he'd jumped across the fence to be a PR man for the nuclear-power industry—a decent early test for his powers of imagination.
Democracy may yet prosper in Iraq; the Taliban may yet be stymied in Afghanistan to greater regional security in a largely unseen and unappreciated game of regional strategy; or each shall embody, in retrospect, an utter failure of imagination to test its theories before turning them into policies.
It was the social event of the Paris season that tested the imagination of the fashion crowd: a masked ball to celebrate French Vogue's 90 years young.
But the prospect of such leisure vanished as she returned home to look at her country with new eyes: India was jubilant at its first nuclear test, and Roy penned The End Of Imagination, a furious attack on this symbol of national pride.
Besides, designing tests of oral ability demands creativity, imagination, time, and highly motivated practitioners, all of which seemed to be in rare supply.
Like the 140-character limit on Twitter, Vines have exploded because the six-second limit of the video posts tests the imagination.
