Sentence examples for the common imagination from inspiring English sources

In the common imagination, though, they have come to represent the actual women: women so bound up in sex and money and performance that they seem in themselves to be some sort of heady, rare narcotic.

But they are part of the common imagination of childhood, and, with the release of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" as the first of a series of film adaptations, they are likely — if the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is any indication — to become still more deeply implanted.

There's the Australian summer of our common imagination – a beach and bleached-out days of names you forget and don't need to remember.

Al-Kindî is more conventional philosophically in his magnum opus, On First Philosophy, when he highlights the mechanics of perception as proceeding from the sensible object (via the sense organs) to the common sense, imagination and memory.[7] Elsewhere, he mentions the role of the imagination in both abstracting and presenting images apart from their matter (Ivry, 135).

Waithe's hope fits into the tacit expectation that it is now the province of artists to correct the images of people who have been rendered in the common American imagination as flat and uncomplicated.

Mr. Sarkozy talked about "this feeling of sharing less and less a common culture, a common imagination and a common morality".

This, in turn, means that we no longer have a sense of shared reality, a common imagination that underlies political life.

His company makes its Joyce début with "Elements," in which Keigwin's uncommon imagination works the common theme of earth, fire, air, and water, to music from Mozart and Chopin to Patsy Cline and Devo.

The most direct textual evidence that Aristotle considered the imagination and the common sense to be fundamentally the same faculty is to be found in De Insomniis (459a) and De Memoria (450a).

The Man Booker is, after all, a Commonwealth prize, as well as a British and Irish one, and the shortlist reflects the common wealth of many nations, many imaginations.

The common faint was enshrined in my adolescent imagination by movies.