The new sensibility that has come with these changes is as estranged from a hungry, stunted proletariat as this was from the slow, credulous country people out of which it was conjured.
Sickert's San Marco is leadenly, massily pinioned to the insecure earth on which is it is built – and this is in spite of the fact that Sickert is clearly striving to make the building look and feel fantastically airy, almost as if, as with Monet, he is seeking to demonstrate that it was light from which it had been conjured in the first place.
But it manifests itself as a pure explosion of now: it catches us in its mobile, flashing present, which is the living reality it conjures on the page at the moment we are reading.
This later strategy is central to Rich's mature poetry, which works against the effects it conjures as it brings us into the tug-of-war between literary aptness and actual pain.
It includes a few glazed tiles from which you are asked to extrapolate huge decorated buildings; it presents a couple of gold and silver medallions called paizas -- passports for imperial envoys in Mongol days (Marco Polo had a gold one) -- by which it is hoped you may conjure up a whole medieval world of caravans and diplomats on horseback crisscrossing continents.
(And you should pronounce that as in the phrase "Win one for the Gipper," after George Gipp, the legendary football star played by Ronald Reagan in one of his more memorable roles before he became a politician. Don't pronounce it "gyp," which conjures up unfortunate images).
For Franzen, this is the imagination's price, the arduous means by which he conjures a fictional world and reproduces it on the page.
Everyone loves silicone when it comes to toys because it's so easy to clean, and comparatively easy to mold into different shapes, but it never degrades, which conjures an image of a floating island of dildos somewhere out in the middle of the ocean.
Today Somalis carry many labels, each of which conjures its own fears and stereotypes in the popular imagination: Refugee.
