Sentence examples for thinly imagined from inspiring English sources

The novel, the first of a projected series, frequently reads like an assembly-line product, poorly written and thinly imagined, but it has one diverting idea.

In these short narratives, as in his ample novels (the best known are "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray"), an isolated protagonist wanders through a richly recreated past — or, in one case here, a thinly imagined future — yearning for human connection.

You can practically hear the author yawning as he bangs out the off-the-peg CIA background for his menacing patriarch (the old judge in Christina Falls is a masterpiece of morally equivocal portraiture by comparison), or the equally thinly imagined crusading career of his burned-out journalist.

There's little distinction between the two thinly imagined guys, other than the fact that Peeta has a dopier name.

Though it takes place on an imaginary island, this novel by a Cuban émigré is actually a thinly disguised imagining of life after Castro, as it recounts the orgy of privatization and free-market free-for-alls following the death of the island's aging dictator.

In this age of memoir and thinly veiled autobiographical fiction, writers who take high dives into deeply imagined waters have become increasingly rare — and valuable.

Imagine an abandoned theme park taken over by thinly veiled rub 'n' tugs, roti shops, and police stations.

He even eats it "thinly spread on rye" with spiced salami, which I can't imagine, but I share his love of the stuff, especially when it is homemade.