Imaginative

Examples

• But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A visual image, or mental picture, is popularly taken as characteristic of the imaginative process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Above all a reasonable and practical proposal must not require any imaginative patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Science is still too recent to have been absorbed into imaginative and emotional disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• More alert and imaginative than other boys, and with an uncommonly good memory, he made great headway at Mr. Coryton’s grammar school, where he went when he was six. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That sense of an impersonal machine going on with endless reiteration is an experience that imaginative politicians face. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Unless such activity reacts to enlarge the imaginative vision of life, it is on a level with the busy work of children. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But a politician with some imaginative interest in genuine affairs need not be seduced into the learned folly of pretending that reality is something else than it is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more argumentative, as Glaucon in the lighter and more imaginative portions of the Dialogue. Plato. The Republic.
• In the sense of being accompanied by imagery all thinking is imaginative. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Theory, and--to some extent--practice, have advanced far enough to recognize that play-activity is an imaginative enterprise. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It continued to be a theme of curious interest to the imaginative, and the subject of much fiction, while its neglected commercial possibilities were still more or less vaguely referred to. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• That is why imaginative socialists have shown so great an interest in syndicalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was naturally sceptical of the imaginative will, and with a great respect for and comprehension of established fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In that respect he had an imaginative greatness Napoleon lacked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus old Featherstone was imaginative, after his fashion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When a man tells me anything about imaginative qualities, I always tell that man, whoever he is, that I know what he means. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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