Sentence examples for the very imagination from inspiring English sources

But Sontag's new principle is a recipe for silence, not to mention an assault on the very imagination that makes art, and most other forms of knowledge, possible.

COMMONLY for fiction writers the choice of a fiction-writing protagonist constitutes the worst sort of laziness, a failure to exercise the very imagination they are paid to exploit.

The earlier film conveyed an awed and even terrified sense of the colossal, a delight in the cinematic ability to realize wrenching destruction and, at the same time, to shiver at the very imagination of it.

Our guide tells us to use "very, very imagination" to see shapes in the stalagmites and stalactites, from dolphins to monks, but you really don't need any imagination to appreciate the beauty of the place.

In our very imaginations?

Marie, it seems, is a stand-in not just for Maria Rama but for the very power of imagination, for inspiration itself, the ability to conjure fanciful images and knit them together into stories — in short, Grass's muse.

Before the Jewett, Mr. Rudolph had been known mainly for a series of light, tensile modern houses in Florida, beautifully composed buildings that possessed the very spark of imagination that seemed to be missing in so much modern architecture of the 1950's.

And that's why the director doesn't bother to fully imagine Brandon's story: the very stunting of the imagination is both the film's subject and its method.

For it is the very freedom of the imagination.

But the bias against the common good goes deeper, into the very cortex of the imagination.

Some will find these rich concoctions of genres and parts a profound, life-giving elixir, the very stuff of the imagination itself.