Sentence examples for wholly imaginary from inspiring English sources
This is wholly imaginary and deeply offensive – for concealing a spy would have been an extremely serious matter.
In their view, stagings are a test of a director's ingenuity and serve simply as a springboard for a new and wholly imaginary dramatic construct.
In his paper, Dr. Bendersky points out that the painting is not wholly imaginary but based on a shark attack in 1749.
Even those writers who preferred, like Dunsany, to set their fiction in wholly imaginary worlds — Tolkien is the best-known example — felt their work shaped by the war's horrors.
The events it depicts are wholly imaginary, and, rather like Delibes' later Lakmé and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, centre on the impossibility of a European hero living happily ever after with an Asian – not African – princess.
Like a doctor responding to a wholly imaginary complaint – the perennial rightwing fantasy that someone somewhere is trying to kill Christmas – May was prescribing a placebo, a soothing assurance that the thing that isn't happening anyway, definitely shouldn't happen.
Or was it totally imaginary?
It is either a portrayal of the author's father, the playwright Denis Johnston, in wayward old age; or a wholly invented narrative featuring imaginary characters who share a few traits with people remembered from the past.
Deeply influenced by Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil" and bookended by two renditions of the song "You Kill Me," the movie is part documentary ode to its title subject, part imaginary confessional and wholly personal.
