| 单词 | figment |
| 例句 | “I don’t have just one fig. I have a whole figment.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “This can only mean one thing. It has to do with Time. Yes. You are a figment of the Past!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z For years after whenever Ridgeway saw a bonfire, the smell reminded him of the sweet smoke of Carter’s house going up and a figment of a smile settled on his mouth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As far as she was concerned, East Shoal and everything that had happened was nothing but a figment of my imagination. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It was as if they all believed as Thomas did—that Gaily was only a figment of their imagination. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The girl from his dreams wasn’t a figment, and she wasn’t the goddess of despair, and she wasn’t dead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The whole article is just a figment of the imagination.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was a figment of my imagination. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z To her horror she saw that the sticky goo had been no figment of her imagination. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “A whole figment of figs! Oh please, can I have some? I...” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This felt like a figment of her mind, the man she’d imagined her father would have become if he’d lived longer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I stared, wide-eyed, at Mr. Gunthrie, praying nothing about him was a figment of my imagination. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Her child—not a figment of her imagination, but her child in the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Pretend that everything that I’m going through is nothing more than a figment of my imagination. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He is real—not a figment of my imagination! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a silly figment of my imagination. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “But it was probably just a figment of my overly active imagination.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Bailey is debating whether or not it is a figment of his imagination when the man looks over at him, his eyes surprisingly bright, though Bailey cannot discern their color. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes I try hard to believe Dad's right about me imagining stuff, and that's all Miss Willis was—a figment of my imagination. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z That I might have actually died, and that he’s a figment of my imagination in a personalized heaven. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The integers represented the purity of God, while the irrationals and other bizarre sets of numbers were abominations—figments of the imperfect human mind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The whole thing was a figment of his imagination. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The only proof he has now that the girl even existed, and was not a figment of his imagination, is the glove. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s merely a figment of your overly active imagination,” Lori said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I began to doubt the prior day’s events, as one would suspect a vision of the open heavens to be a figment of the mind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His “enthusiasm” for the weapon was a figment of Alvarez’s imagination. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Achilles runs smoothly past the tortoise because the infinite points are simply a figment of Zeno's imagination, rather than a real-world construct. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z That we’re the figment of someone’s imagination, some crazy person or maybe spirit or god that’s just dreamed up each and every single one of us. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For though her gran insisted that the woman in the white cloak had only been a figment of Ivy’s imagination, Ivy knew what she had seen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The others are, for the most part, figments of someone’s imagination, self-interest, or wishful thinking. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "Wishful figment" is about the perfect way to describe a golem; weighed down with its creator's wishes, it is indisputably a figment, a creature made by others' agency, to fulfil others' plans. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z The lesson is that Jesus is not just a figment of religious imagination but a metaphysically real being who comes to those who earnestly pray. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z Made famous by Mitchell’s “Professor Sea Gull,” Gould wrote to the author, “I was only a figment of your imagination.” What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z They may be slaves to their master or plotting his overthrow; or they may be figments of his imagination. Dance Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Are they zombies or robots or creatures from space or figments of their imagination? Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z These striped bowls, pitchers, pepper mills, funnels and egg cups may be figments of Mr. Bailey’s imagination, but they appear to be subject to the laws of gravity and cast very persuasive shadows. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z Turns out she's not Rachel Menken's ghost or an angel of death or a figment of Don's imagination, as she seemed to be in "Severance." 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Whether all-singing, all-dancing, engaging in a dialogue of the dispossessed, or bewailing a lost companion, the shepherds and nymphs of pastoral poetry were figments of imagination from the start. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z The latter character may be a figment of the man’s — or the artist’s — imagination. Review | In the galleries: The unique perspectives of the Washington Women’s Art Center 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “We demonstrated that this prejudice is a figment of their imagination,” Benjamin Sarfati told reporters outside the courthouse. Paris court keeps filmmaker Gilliam in suspense over Quixote movie 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z I only knew him as Hiroshi and no one seems to know where he ended up, like he was a figment of my imagination. A candid discussion with a semi-finalist for a James Beard Award for Best Chef Southeast 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s clear from the beginning that he’s no figment of the imagination, but even once Julie, the girl’s mother, recognizes the threat, it’s far too late. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Better Call Saul’ and ‘The Plot Against America’ 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Inside this complication there may be a stark figment of architecture. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “This is what the real Mr. Darcy looks like, except for the fact that he is a figment of the imagination,” Stig Abell, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, wrote on Twitter. Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Nabokov dismissed Wilson’s analysis as “figments of his warped fancy.” Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z On one hand he advances the theory that the accusations are mere figments of the hysterical female imagination. Bret Easton Ellis goes on a misogynist rant to defend his buddy, accused rapist James Deen 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He's such the benevolent guardian angel figure that the cynical viewer half-expects him to be revealed as a figment of Cal's imagination. The offensive movie cliche that won't die 2010-09-14T13:01:00Z That shows thrills largely rely on schemes conjured up by the living; the dead woman might be real or figment of the guilty party's imagination. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The view that overpopulation is a figment of the dark reactionary imagination is undoubtedly the current orthodoxy. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z The witches are heard but not seen; instead there is a group of men and women in the shadows, perhaps figments of the central couple’s imaginations. Operas in Contrast: ‘Macbeth’ and ‘La Donna Serpente’ 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z So he cannot blame Gould for the grand figment of the Oral History. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z The first time I saw her, I wasn’t sure if it was a figment of my imagination: a lone mermaid, casually swimming along a retaining wall on the 10 Freeway. We found the guerrilla artists who surreptitiously put a mermaid on the westbound 10 Freeway 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “When I see him now,” Josh said of their father, “it’s almost like he’s a figment of my imagination.” Josh and Benny Safdie?s Film ?Daddy Longlegs? 2010-05-14T04:00:00Z As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Grier, a figment of his imagination, flashes a look that suggests he doesn’t believe that. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z He could be a shared hallucination, a figment of their AI software that all the Hosts experience, but which would be invisible to the Guests. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 3: Don’t Make Arnold’s Mistake 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Unless the human characters are figments dreamed up by the landscape. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z There is more leeway, and less potential to offend, when villains are clearly fantastical creatures, unreal figments of imagination, like the Shadow Monster in “Stranger Things.” Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Once, after having lunch with President Allende in Chile, Greene was briefly taken to be the "unreal Graham Greene", a fake, and started to wonder whether he was just a figment of the impostor's imagination. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z That world, after all, must have suddenly seemed rendered a figment. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The dragon Rembrandt drew was a figment of his imagination. When Rembrandt Met an Elephant 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z What I got instead was a demented funhouse fantasia of fear, real fear, the kind of immediate visually – sourced fear completely alien to a child theretofore frightened only by the figments of his own imagination. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z How much of this story is a figment of Philip’s vengeful imagination? Books of The Times: In ‘& Sons,’ David Gilbert Looks at Uneasy Family Dynamics 2013-07-28T18:50:19Z His nickname made him seem elusive, a figment of her outsize fantasy life. Motherlode Blog: Widowed, and Keeping Dates Like ‘Glamourpuss’ and ‘Crunchy Dad’ at a Distance 2013-07-14T14:02:31Z Halley VI is a line of four-legged mechanical beasts, seven blue and one red, like a desert caravan gone astray or a figment of science fiction. Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review 2013-02-10T08:00:03Z Even the man she says she’s seeing is a figment in this movie, cropped from images, a hand-holding blur, a ghost. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Finally, it is not that all his creations are projections of himself, but the opposite: in his novels, he becomes a mere figment of his characters’ reality, a shadow in their dreams. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Because he’s closer to autobiography than anything else in the play — everyone else is pieces, figments, fragments. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But as the home of not only the production, in Belfast’s Titanic Studios, but also Westeros itself, Northern Ireland has been transformed in fact and figment. ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Ending. But You Can Still Visit Westeros. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But Trump Mingle is only a figment of Seth Meyers’s twisted imagination. Seth Meyers Thinks Rep. Steve King Is the Real Horror Master 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Readers often infer that Mr. Tuttle is a ghost, a figment of the body artist’s imagination. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The first ghoulish figment of the subconscious, then, is the terrifying Amy Adams, crossing from the gloomy animated world of Disney fable to the Elysian plain of Times Square in Enchanted. Clip joint: manhole covers 2011-02-23T13:59:15Z For that matter, are all such scenarios mere figments of Nora’s overheated imagination? Books of The Times: ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud 2013-05-02T16:47:10Z The look is strenuous, yet each figure is airy, a figment of outline and wash that lives in the page. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z Real or a figment of the lead character, mutant David Haller’s imagination? 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It is unclear whether he represents God or a figment of Moses’ imagination or an angel or something else. Exodus: 4 Differences Between Film and Bible 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The people whose lives I was appraising are figments. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z It's also just possible that the phantoms she thinks she sees are figments of her overactive imagination. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z It’s possible she is a ghost, or a figment of his imagination. Review: A Restless Spirit Haunts a Family in ‘A Season in France’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Readers in the know will soon realize that Kalo is a figment of Seth’s imagination, but no one will doubt that his love of old New Yorker cartoons is real. Cover Story: Seth’s “Virtual Music” 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Objects materialising on the page like mirages; and simultaneously, like mirages, disappearing; figments surfacing and fading from memory. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z Never mind that they don’t exist, figments of a few lines of computer code. Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Bohemia may be only a figment of Mr. Lauren’s fashion imagination, but he made it sweet and compelling. Special Report: Ralph Lauren's Downtown Boho 2010-02-18T17:42:00Z It gave us a slick fantasy infused with mysticism, positing that capitalism's toxic corporate system is a massive multiplayer role-playing figment built to enslave us, and that the machinery was built by machines. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Then another figment comes: a slave auction with Jones on the block, Southern belles fanning themselves in the crowd. Review: Emperor Jones, Fearsome and Fearful in a Roaring Revival 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Then again: She might be a figment of his imagination, unless both of them are figments of the directors’. ‘Closed Curtain,’ by the Iranian Dissident Jafar Panahi 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z These may be signs of a cosmic or metaphysical presence, or they may be figments of Dinesen’s increasingly desperate and fevered imagination. Review: ‘Jauja,’ a Desperate Odyssey in the Argentine Desert 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z He’s helped collapse the nation’s financial markets, and has discovered that the anarchist ring-leader played by Christian Slater is both his father and a figment of his imagination. “Mr. Robot” in moral free-fall: Groundbreaking season 1 sets up intriguing stakes for next act 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The play’s characters turn out to be figments of her imagination or emanations caused by her faulty neural wiring. ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z In my mind, his Catholicism is a figment of his imagination. Talk: Joe Eszterhas Sure Cleaned Up 2012-02-02T22:07:16Z But over time, she seems to have accepted that she can talk to and pick the brain of this figment of Alan's imagination. From Poirot to Pünd: How "Magpie Murders" evolved its outsider detective 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z He needs a fairy godfather to save him, and, miraculously, one appears and offers to pay for his ticket on condition that he offers to help a figment of Hans Christian Andersen's imagination. No Wise Men ? review 2010-12-10T22:30:00Z Booker tells the Times that being vegan on the campaign trail “means veggies on the go,” as if curly fries are just a figment of one of my better dreams. A number of Democrats running for president are kind of weird about food 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z “We can’t use cabbage roses with those new car designs,” she recalled being told, to which she replied, “Those designs are just a figment of my imagination; they’re not on the market.” Ruth Adler Schnee, Exuberant Designer of Modernist Textiles, Dies at 99 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z A dream, a figment of silent beauty, a futile gift for one of the loneliest figures in modern literature. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z Mr. Russo’s people prefer to sideswipe, wisecrack, sneak, scheme and talk to figments of their imaginations. Review: Richard Russo Returns Upstate in ‘Everybody’s Fool’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But what if Walter White was just a figment of another hapless father’s imagination? Breaking Bad‘s Brilliant Alternate Ending 2013-11-17T16:24:57Z Those monsters are not a figment of infant fears; they are a race of ogres from an alternative world whose only energy source is a high volume of audible nightmares. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z Until humans find a way to get along with each other and with nature, Arcadia will remain a beckoning, tantalizing figment of the collective imagination. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z They may be slaves to their master or plotting his overthrow, or they may be figments of his imagination. Dance Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z When we began dating for real, I joked that his son must be a figment of the imagination. Modern Love: Exit Left, Wordlessly 2012-01-12T21:14:33Z Liberated, she wanders, dances and finds her romantic foil, in a series of scenes that could either be a figment of imagination or as real as it gets. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Five stations respond to sound or motion: Claps cue rain or lightning, while proximity to one wall summons a figment of fall in the shape of the visitor. Review | In the galleries: Tim Doud takes a tactile turn 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z She concludes that the woman is an illusion, but whether she is real or a figment of her mind doesn’t matter: The narrator carries the scent of carnations with her like a curse. Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z “It’s always been questionable as to whether the dancer was a figment of the singer’s imagination,” says Large. Storm Large blows into town with Oregon Symphony on May 3 2013-05-01T20:59:34Z It’s no wonder too, given that Stella, a beauty in luminous white, periodically hovers around him, either because she’s a ghost or a figment of his enduring longing and grief. Movie Review: ?The Woman in Black? Starring Daniel Radcliffe 2012-02-02T17:15:11Z Spectacular modern installations appeared on remote corners in the most far-fetched of places, that they sometimes seemed like a figment of my imagination. Where the Journey is the Destination 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The baritone Samuel Youn, even with his strong, solid voice, lacked the suavity and charisma for Méphistophélès, particularly in a conception of the plot as various figments of his imagination. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z Although they dismissed the notion as a figment of their imagination, eventually they couldn’t ignore the fact that the hair was growing. The homeless couple living in Walmart and 7 other urban legends that won’t die 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z He is not a figment of their imagination; that much is clear. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z The evil that exists in the world is too real to be dismissed as a figment of his fervid imagination. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “He lived some sort of a fictitious war, it was a figment, a fantasy, it was fever dreams in the jungle, but he solidified the fiction into a real war,” Herzog said. Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Other characters drift into the room, figments of Woyzeck’s imagination or scraps of his memory. Review: ‘Woyzeck, FJF’ Is a Quixotic Adaptation at the New Ohio Theater 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z If Norm and Corky are thin caricatures, Gerald and Laura are less than that; they are figments of pure theatrical necessity, existing only to forward the plot, and sometimes to rewind it. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z So identities of class, nation, religion and gender are less figments of intellectuals' imaginations, dreamt up to divide humanity, than powerful political forces that are often rooted in real differences of power and status. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z Some contain fantastical pencil-drawn figments of the imagination, some colorful watercolors and others intricate collages. Fun between the covers: Sketchbook Project in Seattle 2011-06-09T20:45:17Z One student expresses doubt that the spirit people she met were more than figments: “I don’t know – is it just in my mind, or is it really real?” What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z When Eurydice dies the second time, vanishing without a trace, it’s as though she’s a figment of Orpheus’s imagination, more an archetype than anything else — the ill-fated lover, the tragic dead wife, another muse. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z I always believed meat juice was the culprit for spreading bacteria; it was the reason for my disgust and not just a figment of my imagination. Washing meat is cultural, yet mandatory 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z If it is all a figment of Golding's imagination, and there was no Jocelin, or anyone like him, The Spire becomes a tremendous mental exercise. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z This smart, saucy redhead, first glimpsed as a hazy silhouette emerging out of the sunlight in a brief opening dream sequence, is a figment of his imagination. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z Between seasons he did Popeye, and a series of epochal one-man concerts that crowded the stage with figments of his teeming brain. Robin Williams: The Comic Who Was Hamlet 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Rosenthal’s other children’s titles included “Uni the Unicorn,” which takes place in a world in which a unicorn imagines that little girls — considered figments of the imagination — are real. Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of best-selling children’s books, touching farewell essay, dies at 51 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z For black followers, it’s affirmation that daily racist treatment isn’t a figment of their imagination. ‘Dear White Women’: The Public Classroom of Rachel Cargle 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He dismissed English's allegation that she had been pressurised into taking the YouView job as "total garbage" and her claim that she was ostracised by colleagues at Viglen as "a figment of her imagination". Alan Sugar alleges disgruntled apprentice is 'suspicious and untrusting' 2013-03-07T19:58:43Z As cops are tracking down a brain-stealing killer, she plays a woman who may or may not be the figment of a mathematician’s imagination. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It takes a while for Jay to convince her friends that the danger isn’t just a figment of her imagination. Review: In ‘It Follows,’ a Shape-Shifting Horror Stalks a Teenager 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Read this book and then tell me the patriarchy is a figment of my imagination. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Maybe the phenomenon of Ellis the literary rock star is just a figment of his fans' imagination. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Could he be a figment of Elliott’s imagination, just like us? Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z They could be figments of Nina's fervid imagination. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z I’m certain that I’m not / as I appear, that I’m a figment and / you’re not really here. The best poetry books for January take on race, current events, love and loss 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z What of the hackers, proven real beyond any figment of public imagination? Werner Herzog: 'I'm not a pundit. Don't push me into that corner' 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Knowing that my feelings were nothing more than a figment of my imagination was like rubbing salt in the wound. A letter to… my therapist, whom I fell in love with 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z So in a sense Beethoven’s orchestra never really existed; it was a figment of his vivid aural imagination. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It is left to the viewer to ponder whether she is the figment of a misogynist fantasy or the projection of a subversively feminist vision. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z Are the minstrel characters mere figments of Richard’s imagination conjured by his ambivalence about assimilation? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z The only problem is that Mr. Ozkaya’s find may be nothing more than a figment of his perception. Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Duchamp From Beyond the Grave 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Gerry Liston, one of GLAN's lawyers, said: "Portugal stood up on behalf of all respondent states and claimed what the applicants had been describing was just a figment of their imagination and that's gaslighting." Youth vs Europe: 'Unprecedented' climate trial unfolds at rights court 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z "For all intents and purposes, it is a figment of their imagination," Malaya said, challenging China to produce evidence of the promise. Philippines says 'promise' to remove grounded warship a figment of China's imagination 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z We see what happens when freedom becomes a mere figment of a populace’s imagination. Why a North Korean toddler’s Bible arrest offers a dire warning to America 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Shortly after the release of Durham's report, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tweeted that "the Russian hoax was a figment of Hillary Clinton's imagination." "Nothing is off the table": Jim Jordan says he'll give a "hard look" at launching new Hillary probe 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Dall-E: This is one of the AI technologies that lets you describe a figment of your imagination — “a stained-glass window depicting cats riding horses” for example — and have computers generate images at your command. Six simple technologies that quietly make life better 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The idea of an unqualified passenger landing a plane is not a complete figment of Hollywood action-adventure-reptilian fiction. Think you can land a plane in an emergency? Pilots explain why you can’t. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Robinson pointed out that “voters chose a fictional character, a figment of Santos’s fertile imagination.” Opinion | Finally, someone tells the truth about George Santos 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Those voters chose a fictional character, a figment of Santos’s fertile imagination. Opinion | George Santos is a fraud. Expel him from the House. 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But in contrast to the public actions or statements made by Greene and Gosar, widely condemned at the time, these expulsions appear based on figments of imagination. Analysis | McCarthy’s specious attacks on Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Trump produced no receipts, no invoices, no work papers — nothing indicating the 1984 consulting business was more than a figment of his imagination. Trump’s brazen tax cheating revealed 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But if you've ever put a digital toe onto Twitter, it is also undeniable that woke bullies are not entirely figments of the reactionary imagination. A resolution for 2023: Time to say no to the "woke wars" 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z There could be no further evidence that the concept of “home team” is a figment of loyal fans’ imagination. Letters to Sports: Dodgers fans will miss Justin Turner and his good deeds 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Worries about a new censorship are not figments of left-wing imaginations. Opinion | Book banning is bad policy. Let’s make it bad politics. 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism. Germany just averted its own Jan. 6, and maybe the Fourth Reich 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Among other instances, he insists her complains over the constant dimming of their London townhouse’s gaslights is a figment of her troubled mind. What headline? ‘Gaslighting’ Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The local police investigate for weeks, but no trace of Wayne is found; there’s no evidence the man in the windbreaker was anything but a figment of Cee’s imagination. Namwali Serpell probes the disorienting flow of grief in ‘The Furrows’ 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Some of those comments were made by individuals who weren't even a figment of one's imagination in 1952 when a young Queen ascended the throne. Who produced his best Man City display? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The second is: a figment of the imagination. Review: A British cult favorite crosses over with a blistering novel about an inscrutable mum 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Anti-monarchy groups dispute claims that the royal family brings in money — “a figment of the spin doctor’s imagination,” they say — and contend that the monarchy actually costs the country about $400 million a year. Who inherits the queen’s money? The secretive rules of royal wealth. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z It is but a figment of your imagination! Introductory Statistics 2013-09-19T00:00:00Z Still, that status quo — long identified as “strategic ambiguity” for the U.S. and quiet but determined Chinese opposition to any figment of Taiwanese independence — appears to be no longer tenable for either side. US-China ties on a precipice after Pelosi visit to Taiwan 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Abortion opponents must aggressively insist upon this "insta-life" figment of the patriarchal imagination in order to support the claim that "abortion is murder." Justice Alito's bad theology: Abortion foes don't have "morality" on their side 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z She is something more horrifying; in her role as a mother, Hen is only a figment of Bridget’s imagination. Review: A British cult favorite crosses over with a blistering novel about an inscrutable mum 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The new faces around the DAR are not figments of her imagination. Perspective | A war without end: The DAR and the 40-year fight to honor Lena Ferguson 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z “It’s not a figment of our imagination. It’s not political, you know, ‘Republican right-wing talking points.’ Hochul Emerges From Budget Talks Unbowed, but Not Unscathed 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Serenades were played to sound like figments of the imagination. Review: The hidden message for Ukraine in Mahler's Seventh Symphony 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Two figures near the end of a dock in one large painting barely materialize; time and distance have rendered them figments. With four L.A. shows, Enrique Martínez Celaya displays the breadth of his artistic range 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “When voters send her to the general election, voters will be voting for a person, not a figment of Republicans’ imagination.” Republicans celebrate in Texas, as Democrats gird for November 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “This is a figment of his imagination. This is a man — if you look in his eyes, you see someone who has gone completely mad.” Cable News Covers Ukraine With On-the-Ground Reporting and In-Studio Rhetoric 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Super Bowls have become so colossal in scale and technology that the players can seem as remote as game animations, framed figments in 4K HDR video. Perspective | Aaron Donald, the Super Bowl’s true MVP, finally gets his ring 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The main difference is, a few former Communists actually served in the U.S. government, whereas the fraud perpetrated by Donald Trump remains a figment. Opinion | The GOP hounding of Liz Cheney recalls the McCarthy-era smearing of another woman who took a stand 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, began as a figment of the media’s sick imagination. Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself against lawless vigilantes 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “The people who allowed this to happen are not ghosts or figments of our imaginations. They are real and should be made to face the law immediately.” Nigerian security forces committed ‘massacre’ to stop peaceful protest, report finds 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Dr. Brain is most intriguing when its characters are unsure whether other people they are seeing are real or figments from a glitchy brain sync. Apple’s Dr. Brain is a bold, genre-bending thriller 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It would do wonders for the president's reputation if he stood up and admitted that his loyalty to the filibuster was a misguided figment of the past. When to admit you're wrong: JFK's lessons for Joe Biden 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z "It is not in any way a figment of my imagination," he added. Fox News host questions Tucker Carlson about spying claims: "This is the stuff of banana republics" 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination,” Mr. Carlson maintained. Tucker Carlson says NSA leaked his private email to use as leverage against him 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z He darts past defenders as if they are figments of his imagination. Belgium’s Golden Team Searches for a Silver Lining 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z "But don’t worry -- there is no global warming because it’s just a figment of our imaginations." More deaths linked to dangerous Northwest heat wave being reported 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “But don’t worry – there is no global warming because it’s just a figment of our imaginations.” Biden and Harris to meet western governors amid historic heatwave – live 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z "But don’t worry — there is no global warming because it’s just a figment of our imaginations." Record temperatures gripping northwest linked to at least 2 deaths in Washington 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “Playoff P” is once again a figment of his imagination, and there once again will be legitimate questions about whether he can ever lead a championship team. Plaschke: Clunking Clippers rebuild curse brick by brick in Game 4 loss 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z But neither is there an “Orient” or “Orientals” — those fantastic figments of the Western imagination, as Edward Said argued. Opinion | The Beautiful, Flawed Fiction of ‘Asian American’ 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Prosecutors called the testimony a "figment of his imagination." Tibbetts trial juror says case was 'very emotional,' feels confident with guilty verdict 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Prosecutor Scott Brown called Bahena Rivera's testimony "a figment of his imagination." Mollie Tibbetts murder trial: Jury finds Cristhian Bahena Rivera found guilty 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Of course, conservatives have always argued that racism is a figment of the liberal imagination, but now they declare it with a righteousness and open hostility that’s shockingly new, and old at the same time. Op-Ed: Derek Chauvin is in the courtroom, but the character of Black people is on trial in Minneapolis 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z This causes first-time customers to step a little to the left and peer in the full-length window to ensure that this wood-fired pizzeria in the middle of nowhere isn’t just a figment of the imagination. The best pizza in Washington is in a former coal town 20 miles from Mount Rainier 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Second, both turned out to be superfluous, undertaken in response to threats — monolithic Communism and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — that were figments of fevered imaginations. Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z In 2020, while Broadway is closed and TikTok is king, some of the most exciting theater is a figment of our imagination. The most exciting theater now is a figment of our imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But the impression is that whatever is recognizable from the past has disintegrated into figments of a foggy memory. Schoenberg knew. When the world goes mad, send in the clowns 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z India termed the accusations as “figments of imagination”. India summons Pakistani diplomat over Kashmir gun battle 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z The 60 Minutes television program talked with owners of benefitting businesses, who said the claims of added jobs are figments of presidential imagination. Trump’s wildly exaggerated help for Black voters 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “President Trump likes to say he passed VA Choice. Just like everything else he seems to be saying, this figment of his imagination is a flat lie,” Biden said. Joe Biden visits battleground Florida to shore up support among Latinos, veterans 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The line could hardly describe Kaufman better, all the more so because it’s spoken by a character that may or may not be a figment of subconsciousness. Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The rapacious Snopes family is not just a figment of William Faulkner’s Mississippi imagination; there is a living analogue from Manhattan. Opinion | Biden needs a Sister Souljah moment 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z That appeal is a figment of your imagination, as she did not even stick around for Iowa and New Hampshire, having abandoned her campaign on December 3, 2019. Taking Biden from one basement to another 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “What we’re seeing today is a sort of national convulsion over the recognition that racism in America is real and it’s not a figment of the imagination of Black people in this country.” Opinion | We Interrupt This Gloom to Offer … Hope 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “This reflects the present climate of intolerance to names, statues, figments of our past that are racist in nature or otherwise imply racism,” Norton said. Activists, politicians, players weigh in on Redskins name change: ‘Start of the new era’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Norton said in a phone interview that the team’s move “reflects the present climate of intolerance to names, statues, figments of our past that are racist in nature or otherwise imply racism.” Washington’s NFL team to retire Redskins name, following sponsor pressure and calls for change 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z "So when Trump talks about the destruction of American history or the cancel culture, all of this is a figment of his imagination?" Ben Shapiro sounds alarm over media's 'gaslighting' of Trump's July 4th remarks: 'You're not crazy, all this stuff is happening' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z “I don’t believe, capital-B believe, in anything. You might be a figment of my imagination.” From his rustic cabin, 85-year-old geologist and artist Jack Holden has his offbeat off-the-grid lifestyle down to a science 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z "He's the one that made up this figment Ramos lady," Stewart added. How profit and incompetence delayed N95 masks while people died 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z A figment of Plimpton’s vivid imagination and a grand and elaborate hoax. Column: Remembering Sidd Finch, the Mets prospect who seemed almost too good to be true 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The man’s birthright is a lie and his girlfriend is just a figment. From first love to unfollowing – culture that sums up romance in 2020 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Natalia Prilutskaya, a Russian researcher for Amnesty International, said that the charges were a figment of the Russian security services’ imagination and that the trial was a sham. They were Russian vegans, environmentalists, antifascists and airsoft players. Then they were accused of terrorism. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Before the sentences, a spokeswoman for Amnesty International called the terror charges "a figment of the Russian security services' imagination that was fabricated in an attempt to silence these activists". Russia 'Set' activists jailed on terror charges 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Of course, since these are all the figment of a computer’s imagination, you’re bound to see some gruesome deformities. Facebook’s revised political advertising policy doubles down on division 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z For a long time, modern scholars believed that the Amazons were little more than a figment of ancient imaginations. Amazons were long considered a myth. These discoveries show warrior women were real. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z In that case, tossing in unsavory characters who may or may not be figments of his imagination, along with random and unprovable references to possible criminality, only muddies the issue. Review | The financial system is supposed to serve the economy — not harm it 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It is that they recorded their interactions with bank employees, preserving a record of what white executives otherwise might have dismissed as figments of the aggrieved parties’ imaginations. This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z He is apparently a figment of Navarro’s imagination — an anagram of Navarro’s surname that the trade adviser created as a Hitchcockian writing device and stuck with as something of an inside joke with himself. Peter Navarro, a White House trade adviser, invented an expert for his books, based on himself 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “No taste. Does this chip even exist? Or was it a figment of my imagination?” another said. Perspective | We tried 13 popular potato chip brands, and our top and bottom picks might just surprise you 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Russell was a fake, a figment of imagination, somebody’s bad idea of a way to market a website. Fake ‘expert’ diminishes the value of genuine financial help 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Over the years since, I’ve known any number of boys who thrived as Scouts — and yet Bud’s concern was no figment of imagination. Opinion | Why is sexual abuse so often common knowledge before it becomes a lawsuit? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z There are now enough figments to fill an entire town, dubbed Lake Duck Pond. Welcome to Lake Duck Pond, a fake town of 82,000 people 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z You could also say that this America never really existed, except as a figment of privilege and exclusion, and that the conjuring of it, on such a scale, is a kind of provocation. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z While there are now more women writing for late night shows than ever before, female hosts, like female presidents, largely remain a figment of the Hollywood imagination. ‘Late Night’ makes late night look bleak for women. So we asked how bad it really is 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Or the lines of dialogue addressed to some figment in the next room. “Javi” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Each is a figment of his imagination — a fake publication in a fictitious series. In Robert Russell’s ‘Book Paintings,’ what you see is not what you get 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z "All of the defendant's wire transfers are merely a figment of her imagination," McCaw said. NY jury hears conflicting portrayals of Fake German heiress 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Since I knew that Don was a far-fetched figment on my astral plane, I settled for men whose lives intersected mine less ethereally. Dating at 61 is like a scavenger hunt 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Once thought to be figments of theorists’ wildest imaginings, black holes are now known to be crucial arbiters of cosmic structure, profoundly affecting the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies across the universe. At Last, A Black Hole's Image Revealed 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The insistence underlying the presentation was that his sidelines had been real businesses, even though prosecutors had dismissed them as figments or exaggerations or fronts. The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z For all I knew, Michael Furey had been a figment of Joyce’s imagination, as perhaps the boy was of Lily’s. “All Will Be Well” 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z "The purpose of blackface was mocking… and erasing black culture, turning it into a figment of the white imagination for entertainment," says Prof Carr. Behind the legacy of America's blackface 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z I call them my figments, but maybe they’re things from long ago returning from the dead, creeping in. Love in a time of trash-eating mushrooms 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Those trophies almost seem like figments now, prizes won by a different team in different times. Perspective | Redskins fans are furious with Bruce Allen, and that’s just how Dan Snyder likes it 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z That is, if Teddy even is a character, and not just a figment of Darius’s imagination? 2018: the year in pop culture 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1749, he published a 90-page book proclaiming that the Christian God was little more than a nefarious figment of people’s imaginations. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z He then tweeted about how he used the time to reflect on how pain is a figment of the imagination, which came as news to the many chronic pain sufferers who proceeded to ratio him. Facebook’s role in the French protests has polarized observers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z He added black employees who turn to the company’s HR for resolutions are made to believe such “disheartening patterns are a figment of our imagination.” Former Facebook worker says firm not doing enough to deal with... 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z This is not a figment of Trump’s imagination, such as the presence of “unknown Middle Easterners” among a caravan of Central American refugees. Opinion | On the INF Treaty, Trump finally gets something right 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The soap Rickrolled us 11 years too late, with the singer appearing as a figment of kidnap victim Kim Butterfield’s imagination as she lost her mind. 2018: the year in pop culture 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The billions China is supposedly paying “in tariffs” are figments of the president’s remarkable misunderstanding of the protectionism that is the centerpiece of his agenda. Opinion | The U.S. takes a disturbing plunge into protectionism 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z For them, “justice” is a figment until we Lock Her Up. Opinion | Trump’s contempt for justice discloses his @real character 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Is Slender Man real, or the figment of an overactive, internet-obsessed morbid imagination? Review: Internet-generated ‘Slender Man’ is anything but scary 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The raised eyebrows they encounter along the way make it abundantly clear that Pooh is not a figment of Christopher’s imagination, though he is very much an agent of the man’s growth and recovery. Review: Pooh and his friends bring a moving spirit of renewal to Disney's ‘Christopher Robin’ 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The show is a figment of Hammerstein’s imagination, and he is to blame for what’s stupid about it. Anika Noni Rose’s Star-Making Self-Possession in “Carmen Jones” 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z I’m betting that the millennial gender war is a figment of the political circus, and will be washed away by the giant force looming on the horizon: parenthood. The gender war is fake — just ask a millennial 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Rick’s was just the figment of a writer’s imagination. ‘Play it again, Issam’: In Casablanca, a cafe is still a cafe 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Is it more foolish to chase what may be a figment, or to assume that our planet has no secrets left? The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s carnage is a figment of his imagination. Trump’s vision of immigration bears no relationship to reality 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But to watch him war with figments of his imagination — a fictional army of fraudulent voters — makes one think of that old ad campaign: A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Opinion | America’s No. 1 voter fraud conspiracy theorist goes down in court 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “I do take 100 percent seriously the idea that the world is a figment of the imagination,” he remarked to physicist/science writer Jeremy Bernstein in 1985. Do Our Questions Create the World? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Unless the current system of education changes, however, that difference will remain a figment of the legal imagination. In debt to the law: How law schools fail those who seek justice 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr Icke placed him directly in front of Claudius, turning the dramatic logic of the scene on its head: was this Claudius a figment of Hamlet’s imagination? The hazards of updating classic texts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The character is searching for her daughter, who may or may not be a figment of her imagination, a leftover fragment from a previous “script” of her android incarnation. Thandie Newton: ‘Being the first dark-skinned woman in Star Wars is great... and awful' 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Or is she, like so many other people he encounters in the film, merely a figment of that troubled mind? Review | ‘Aardvark’ is a portrait of mental illness that only scratches the surface 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Or is Sawyer the psychotic one and Mr. Stalker simply a figment of her tortured imagination? Review | ‘Unsane’: A lazy, B-movie horror flick inexplicably full of A-listers 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z “I’m a huge believer that pressure is just a figment of your imagination,” sophomore guard Kyle Guy said. Perspective | Virginia can’t let one broken wrist stop it from knocking down the door 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In a twist on ID theft, criminals are deploying figments of their imaginations, in what is often called synthetic-identity fraud. The New ID Theft: Thousands of Credit Applicants Who Don’t Exist 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z He also has a weakness for booze and opium, making it initially unclear if the ghosts he's seeing are genuine visions or mere figments of his druggy imagination. Helen Mirren does what she can to enliven the creaky haunted-house thriller 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Michael M. Gunter, a political scientist at Tennessee Tech who also studies the Syrian Kurds, said, “The Turks overplay the threat, but it’s not completely a figment of their imagination.” What’s Behind Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z In fact, responsible journalism today seems to be a figment of one's imagination, and has gone the way of the Dodo Bird. HuffPost, Breaking From Its Roots, Ends Unpaid Contributions 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The story is so manufactured out of thin air that it's hard to push back except to say that it's a figment of the imagination of two very flawed sources. Analysis | The Daily 202: The tax bill is likely to become more popular after passage. Here’s how Republicans plan to sell it. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z And as every capitalist knows, markets are figments of politics. Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z What if the voices that encouraged him to “burn them all” weren’t figments of his imagination? The most believable 'Game of Thrones' fan theories to propel you into the finale 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The oft-reported decline in post-WWII volatility in both output and employment also appears to be largely a figment of flawed data. Government money policy might be better handled by private sector 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Show us another player who has radiated as much influence as Eric Cantona and we will show you a figment of your imagination. Premier League at 25: the best player – Eric Cantona | Paul Doyle 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Soviet aggression in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America was by no means a figment of Mr. Brzesinki’s imagination. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Elliot himself lay bleeding, shot by a character he believed to be a delusional figment. 'Mr. Robot' hews close to current events, sometimes so close it's 'an out-of-body experience' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The empowered consumer is a figment of our imagination. Perspective | Our economy is a hellscape for consumers. The United flier is the latest victim. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s another early opportunity to render their troubles from 2016 a figment of the past. Lefties loom as Dodgers hit the road to face the Rockies, Cubs 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z She added: "Now the SNP's own economics guru has admitted promises of a land of milk and honey were a figment of Alex Salmond's imagination. "And that reality has hardly changed. Scottish independence: SNP's economic case 'should not include oil' - BBC News 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The perceived challenges that prevent many people from pursuing careers in technical fields are not a figment of their imagination, but real barriers to success. Her Scientific Discovery: Support 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Mutually beneficial, win-win solutions are a figment of some diplomat’s imagination. Trump and Trade: Extreme Tactics in Search of a Point 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Since the hellscape he describes is a figment of Trump’s imagination, it will be easy enough to say “Abracadabra” and convince his rabid followers that he’s made it all better. Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump’s brave new world: Believe our eyes and ears or “alternative facts”? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Like the boys in Maxwell’s novel, he seemed like a figment, or a fragile piece of memory that crumbles when you turn it in your hands. Reflections on True Friendship 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “This, coupled with the advent of social media technology that allowed them to post relentless ‘filtered’ images of themselves, led to staggeringly self-absorbed figments of their own perfection. Piers Morgan to anti-Trump millennials: ‘Suck it up you squealing softies’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Girl, meanwhile, is a figment of Newton’s imagination, twirling around him as if she’s singing China Girl on The X Factor. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Two-headed sharks may sound like a figment of the big screen, but they exist—and more are turning up worldwide, scientists say. Two-Headed Sharks Keep Popping Up—No One Knows Why 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Not all of the early-voting problems reported this year are figments of imagination. Scary Dogs! Rigged Machines! Votes From the Grave! This Election, Paranoia Reigns 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Once just a figment of the imagination, a navigable sea route through the Arctic is becoming reality due to climate change. These Maps Show the Epic Quest for a Northwest Passage 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Then again, the uncanny clown sightings might be more figment of the imagination than genuine fright. Clowns were creepy long before they were fun 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In fact, this urban apocalypse is a figment of his imagination; urban crime is actually at historically low levels. Black lead matters: poisoning kids is a partisan issue 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Were those FCC listings actually filed or just figments of our hype-fueled imaginations? Kobo is definitely coming out with a new e-reader this summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It remains a challenge to determine what is real and what is a figment of his imagination. 6 things to know before season 2 of trippy tech thriller ‘Mr. Robot’ begins 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z It is hard to overstate the Mexican rejection of this ludicrous figment of an orange imagination. What would electing Donald Trump be like? Like Brexit | Richard Wolffe 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The more the buyer is willing to pay, the more goodwill and other intangibles are added as assets; essentially, the more these figments are suddenly worth. The Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal Proves We Overvalue Goodwill 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z With apologies to anticipatory figures from Frederick Douglass to Jesse Jackson, a black President resided for decades in the realm of popular culture, a figment of the liberal imagination. Hillary Clinton’s Closeup 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z He thinks it's okay to repeat half-truths, whole lies, and figments of his deserted imagination. Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who’s King of the Hill? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Things take a more surreal turn in the stronger Act 2 as we are left to ponder if these murders are just a figment of Bateman’s imagination. Review: Darkly wonderful ‘American Psycho’ slays onstage 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not me. It’s a figment of George’s and Adrian’s imaginations. I was there doing the best I could,” he said. Golden Driller model celebrates Tulsa statue’s 50th birthday 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z “Ah,” the Trump campaign says, bending eight spoons and then vanishing into a telephone, “but what if the whole world exists only as a figment of our minds?” The day Trump killed the fact 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z In Clinton’s current commanding position to win both the nomination and the general election, it is almost as if America spewed forth Trump as a figment of its cultural anxiety about castration. Trump’s noxious virility myth: Why the GOP frontrunner’s “big, beautiful wall” is about more than just borders 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z But it appears that Rihanna sees the cattiness as a figment of the Internet's infinite imagination. Rihanna shuts down Beyonce rivalry rumors 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Bipartisan legislation is gradually becoming a figment of the modern imagination. Editorials from around New England 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z That little experiment convinced me that the length of the red light was a figment of my imagination. Drivers assess how they — and others — behave in traffic 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The idea that they want to use banned books to overthrow the Chinese government is simply a figment of someone’s imagination. Q. and A.: Bei Ling on the Missing Hong Kong Booksellers 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Many analysts consider China’s GDP growth statistics to be purely figments of official imagination. 5 myths about China’s economy 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A figment of all of our collective imaginations. An insider's cultural guide to Beirut: 'a beautiful, rowdy, intoxicated mess' 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z As Frank Ocean fans have joked on Twitter recently, the singer is beginning to feel like a figment of our collective imaginations after an almost-four-year wait for new music. Should Frank Ocean's lack of new album be a cause for concern or celebration? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Whether the witches exist or are a figment of his tortured mind is unclear. Movie review: Fassbender’s ‘Macbeth’ is ferocious, unhinged 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z I can prove I’m not a figment of my own imagination.’ Obama’s quiet transgender revolution 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Fidel Castro is more legend than leader in Cuba, more figment than threat in America. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z If Iraq was a European figment, Syria was stitched up, and Assad's family ripped it. Overrating Outrage in Obama’s Response to Paris Attacks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The reality is that the threat of radical Islam and the corrosive influence of Sharia law here in the U.S. is not just a figment of our imagination. Ben Carson: The U.S. Must Not Accept Any Syrian Refugees 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z “And this is why people see ghosts, demons, aliens or even figments from their past appearing to attack them.” Vampires, ghosts and demons: the nightmare of sleep paralysis 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z And yes, Slater will be returning for season 2, despite being a figment of Elliot's imagination. 'Mr. Robot' season 2 will be darker, 'if such a thing is even possible' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Significant parts of this world are figments of his delusion. The Year We Obsessed Over Identity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z This is neither a statistical mirage nor a figment of our imagination. Here’s why poor people are poor, says a conservative black academic 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I was among them—I graduated with the class of ’87—and for me, as for many former students, the school was a figment of recollection, frozen in its academic glory. The Life and Death of an Urban School 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z And perhaps more than anything, it is about tapping into a brave new world, one in which, when the first Halo arrived 14 years ago, was barely a figment of our imagination. Daily Report: E-Sports Continues to Reshape Gaming Landscape 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “I feel as if I was only a figment of your imagination,” he told Mitchell. The Long-Lost Tale of the World’s Longest Book 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The figment of a strategy embraced by the United States and the European Union calls for the implementation of a peace plan, known as Minsk 2, that Russia accepted in February but has never respected. Will we let Ukraine die? 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Roof saw the Confederate flag as a banner of white superiority—not as a figment of nostalgia but as an honest reflection of the contemporary racial order. Equality and the Confederate Flag in Charleston 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The great majority of Americans recognize slavery as a figment of history, interred in a receding past. Black Like Her: Rachel Dolezal and Our Lies About Race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The Athens official news agency is now reporting that Greek government sources denied that negotiators from the Brussels group would arrive tonight – describing the earlier report as a “figment of the imagination”. EU officials reportedly discuss Greek default, while S&P cuts UK outlook 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Let’s hope that one remains a figment of Hollywood’s imagination. Go Back in Time To Visit the Original Jurassic World 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But the “rough rides” given by cops to the Black and brown people they arrested were not figments of the collective Black American psyche. America’s grand historical deception: Why it pretends White Supremacy no longer exists 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Axact condemns this story as baseless, substandard, maligning, defamatory, and based on false accusations and merely a figment of imagination published without taking the company’s point of view. Text of Axact’s Response to The New York Times 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Currently, there is little in the market to suspect an rally in prices is anything but a figment of the imagination of traders, including the funds, and end users who are short bought. CA Drought Impact More Complex--Ag Grains Nearing Crossroads 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z BST06:14 The Athens official news agency is now reporting that Greek government sources denied that negotiators from the Brussels group would arrive tonight – describing the earlier report as a “figment of the imagination”. EU officials reportedly discuss Greek default, while S&P cuts UK outlook 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Sure, the Earth’s end trumps everything, but with that absurd comparison, then we should devote nothing to present danger and only fight future figments of imagination. Greg Gutfeld’s demented opposition to Bill Nye and climate change: It’s the “strawpocalypse” 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z And, like a cult leader, he was capricious in doling out extreme punishment for slight infractions, some of which were probably mere figments of his paranoid, drug-addled imagination. The Arrogance of Aaron Hernandez 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z In February, the IOM released a report affirming that chronic fatigue syndrome is a legitimate medical condition that many health professionals still misunderstand -- or even dismiss as a figment of patients' imagination. Clues to 'Brain Fog' in Chronic Fatigue Patients Found in Spinal Fluid 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In an interview, Hill said the reality TV show scam was a figment of Patrick Davis' imagination, one that Davis fabricated to distract from his own fraud. How a Conservative Oilman Was Fleeced 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z None of his designs are constructed from real structures – all are figments of his imagination. Japanese Artist Takanori Aiba's Tiny Kingdom Sculptures Celebrate The Art Of Bonsai 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Netanyahu’s panicked plea for what he called ”the survival of our country” is hardly a figment of his imagination. Netanyahu's missed opportunity 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z BPTP, in a statement, called the allegation “false, frivolous and a figment of someone’s imagination.” Amid Complaints in India, a Real Estate Deal in Manhattan 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z We imagine his girlfriend understands, unless she's also just a figment of his trolling. Here's what Anita Sarkeesian's harassers do with the rest of their Twitter time 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z As is now obvious, “no-go zones” in Europe are a figment of the far-right imagination, a fact even Fox News itself concedes. Jindal warns of American 'no-go zones' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The “good old days” are a figment of our imagination. Let's Give Thanks and Stop Whining This Holiday Season 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Social media didn’t exist, email was a figment of our imagination and contracting employees was not as easy as it is today. New Resources Provide Insight into Defining the Entrepreneur 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z So the power of the European example may not be a complete figment of officials’ imagination. The Environmental Union 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z "The labor market is still strong and any slack remaining is just a figment of the Federal Reserve’s imagination," said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Union Bank. Jobless claims jump, but one-month average lowest since 2000 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Yet the J.P.S. is entirely a figment of the artist’s imagination. ‘new. now.’ at Hamiltonian Gallery Unicorns are a figment of childish imagination, and so are Fed officials that possess a hotline to the future. Stanley Fischer's 'Systemic Risk' Hubris Sets The Stage For The Next Fed-Created Crisis 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z The Hamptons light has become something of a legend among artists, raising the question: Is it real or a figment of the artist’s eye? A Refuge of Natural Light 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Corporations don’t exist, except as a figment of our legal imagination. Burger King-Tim Horton: Scrap the Corporation Tax Completely 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Maybe Panahi is meant to be a figment from some other story. ‘Closed Curtain’ movie review: A puzzling picture from Jafar Panahi The ends are a figment of our imagination. Generation Blockhead: How Minecraft Mods The Grown-Ups Of Tomorrow 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z "For me this memo recounts only fantasies and figments of the imagination," he said. Raffaele Sollecito distances his appeal from case against Amanda Knox 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Terrorists who will do civilization great harm are not a figment of your McCarthyist imagination. N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z This was not "the figment of a scaremonger's imagination", he said. Centrica scaremongering, says Labour 2014-02-23T11:30:14Z "Being fake is meant to be an indication of the fact that in the end, everything is a figment," he says. In pictures: Philip-Lorca diCorcia 2014-02-15T01:56:37Z The firearm, prosecutors said, was a figment of his imagination, fabricated to make his self-defense story more believable. Weapon in Slaying of Florida Teenager Figures Again in Court 2014-02-13T01:52:48Z The identities may look real, but are entirely inventions, so are legal, a programmed figment of computer imagination. The Mormon Who Creates Billions of Fake Identities Every Month 2014-02-03T19:57:00Z He was a figment of our collective imagination almost from the start. Bob Dylan has always delighted in disappointing people 2014-02-03T18:55:00Z The United States they see — a nation with a pristine environment, perfect schools, generous welfare and complete political transparency — is a figment of their imagination, custom-made in stark contrast to the reality we live in. Sinosphere Blog: Back in China, Watching One’s Words 2014-01-19T21:00:04Z I knew all the time that these were just figments of my imagination. Conversation on Daydreaming with Jerome L. Singer 2013-12-10T22:45:07.126Z They are a theatrical figment on which floats an act. A Tap-Dancing Act by the Minsky Sisters 2013-12-06T19:10:06Z The legacy of that shocking instant is a troubling habit of the modern American mind: suspicion is a reflex now, trust a figment. JFK Assassination: A Moment That Changed America 2013-11-22T12:05:18Z Why are we not furious that official reports and spokespeople are merely phantoms, figments of the imagination, ghosts in a collective machine? The Area 51 truthers were right 2013-09-09T11:45:00Z Finally, a fifth figment about terrorism is that it works. The Five Myths of Terrorism Including That It Works 2013-08-19T11:45:00.900Z The letters are a figment of the imagination of Samuel I. Schwartz, a former traffic commissioner. City Room: The Secret Behind a Mysterious Traffic Code? It’s Made Up 2013-07-15T14:44:20Z So this ad seems to be implying that if golf were an actual sport, not just a figment of Nike and Tiger Woods’ imagination, a starter would fire a gun. Tiger Woods' New Nike Ad is Confusing 2013-06-11T18:05:24Z Fifty years ago the Internet was not even a figment of someone's imagination. Stay Nimble, Be Quick: 3 Tips 2013-05-30T15:10:13Z Unfortunately, the idea that the euro is yesterday’s problem is a dangerous figment. The euro crisis: The sleepwalkers 2013-05-23T15:05:17Z Materialism asserts that anything apart from physical phenomena is a figment of the imagination - a kind of apparition, which must be exorcised from the mind. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z Is Bobby just a figment of the Drapers’ imagination, or is he actually a person, with his own dreams and desires? Mad Men Watch: Help Wanting 2013-04-15T11:00:00Z Since you probably won't find any maybe you will finally realize that they're a figment of your pathologically non-partisan imagination and get your head straight enough to do some decent reporting. President Obama Brushes Back His Activist Left 2013-04-09T11:05:27Z Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalised world. Why Bitcoin scares banks and governments 2013-04-06T23:05:34Z This 'serving of two masters' is a figment of the author's imagination. Will Obama's New Advocacy Group Drain the DNC? 2013-04-01T21:35:23Z “It’s hard to wrap the mind around this problem, which is really a figment of our timekeeping system,” Dr. Gangestad said. Elliptical Answers to Why Winter Mornings Are So Long 2013-01-14T23:11:26Z Yeah, right......there is no such thing as common sense.......it is a figment of your & main other slack thinkers' imaginations:http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128210.100-the-human-paradox-that-is-common-sense.html?full=true 35. Mystery of the disappearing trees 2012-12-19T09:09:35Z Maybe there is no recovery to pre-crisis levels because the GDP at that time was a non-real figment of our imagination. Daily chart: An undemanding recovery 2012-11-28T15:36:57Z So, did you have a better comeback when they told you about the Maya apocalypse than when they insisted global warming was a figment of Al Gore's imagination? Live Chat: Doomsday 2012-11-28T13:46:03Z The first was the sheer difficulty of grasping that the story was not the figment of someone's imagination but was actually happening. The ‘impossible’ science project 2012-11-26T00:45:19Z What started as the figment of a science fiction writer’s imagination becomes a real prototype in the laboratory of a government lab or technology think tank. Peter Singer: The Military Policy Guru Behind Black Ops II 2012-11-12T22:37:37Z In place of blue pigment, vertebrates and others turn to figment. Basics: True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd 2012-10-25T17:30:43Z But the 19th-century British movement known as “muscular Christianity” was no figment of an author’s imagination with its emphasis on schoolyard games and fair play as a way to mold the future guarantors of empire. Britain's Living Legacy to the Games: Sports 2012-07-27T07:17:18Z He is also a figment of Aaron Sorkin’s imagination, a confected, perfected news anchor in “The Newsroom,” a show that began Sunday night on HBO, which, like CNN, is owned by Time Warner. The Media Equation: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Newsroom’ as a Lofty Map for CNN 2012-06-24T23:20:23Z She is a figment of Sarah Rhodes’s imagination, an apparition that visited her in a dream. Lens Blog: Sarah Rhodes's Photos of Aborigines Swathed in Stories 2012-06-05T17:30:36Z Even though economic convergence was a figment of the imagination, bond yields did converge. Why are investors paying to lend German government money? 2012-05-23T10:57:32Z So I say it’s great, and sad, and with any luck a figment of the past. The greatest/saddest Redskins jersey 2012-04-26T13:28:29Z The proposed accusation of Rupert was never made, and was probably a figment of Wilmot's brain. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z For the Atheist, God is a figment, nothing; in blaspheming God he therefore blasphemes nothing. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The "True Tales" are neither figments of the fancy nor embellished exaggerations of ordinary occurrences. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Even the lofty stature since the bicycle began to develop certain muscles and parts of the human frame, is now seen to be no figment of the artist’s imagination. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z That these pretended armorials were the mere figments of the writers who record them, no one doubts. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Sadly, those rumors are simply that, figments of someone’s imagination. Lessons You Can Learn from Apple?s iPad Woes 2012-02-17T16:45:05Z When you are a little more tranquil, I would modestly suggest that perhaps you are fighting a figment of your imagination. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z But it seems clear that abusive shorting is not just the figment of a few executives’ imaginations. Short-selling: Getting to the naked truth 2012-02-09T16:02:40Z Nine episodes in, the professor was revealed to be a figment of the student’s twisted psyche. Doomsday Killer Crams Corpse With Snakes; Jerry Lewis Mania: TV 2011-12-20T20:28:22Z According to their view, free will is a figment of our imagination. Is Free Will an Illusion? 2011-12-08T13:15:00.213Z Was his charisma a figment of my imagination? Sports of The Times: George Vecsey Remembers Brazil?s S?crates 2011-12-07T01:36:28Z Now a survey has confirmed that the practice, known among booksellers as showrooming, is not a figment of their imaginations. Media Decoder Blog: Many Online Book Buyers First Shop Around in Stores 2011-12-05T03:36:12Z As a respected bulldog breeder conceded to me at the B.C.A. show, “Bulldogs today are not even a figment of what they used to be.” Can the Bulldog Be Saved? 2011-11-23T06:55:18Z Enthusiasm for the old white hat seemed to be no figment of imagination, but a living reality. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The red hot stones in Gaul were probably as much figments of imagination as was the assumption of one commentator that they were a reverberatory furnace. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z We can imagine nothing less "apt and of great credit," as Iago defines the requisites of a judicious calumny, than this figment. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z And now over Uncle Tom’s death, which is more dreadful than anything in Dante’s Inferno, and as pure figment, their feelings were shaken with storm and tempest as never before. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Already she entirely rejected the figment in which Kitty so pathetically believed. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z To get this we must disentangle ourselves from all these figments, go back, and enter through the gate which naturally leads into society. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z She has nothing to do with that figment of the pompous mind, 'belonging to an old family.' The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z This was not a figment of her imagination. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z “The notion that the Arctic Ocean will become a Panama Canal or a Suez Canal is a figment of the media.” Scientific challenges in the Arctic: Open water 2011-10-12T17:20:31.953Z Deeply pledged though she was to the most vapid figments of Christianity, Mrs. Darnley was yet proud beyond measure of her husband's worldwide fame, for she did but imperfectly understand the grounds of it. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z He told me all this nonsense with minute and exact details; all of it pure figment of his poor disordered head. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Facts only can be characterised as important; figments of the creative imagination are as unimportant——" she blew a dainty ring of smoke toward the crystal globe—"as that! Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z It had come out of nowhere, like a stray figment of the imagination, yet it tormented him with an insistence that he could not shake off. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z This reputation was essentially prose-built, and in the attempt to insert a figment of verse of the magnitude of The Spanish Gypsy, it was quite possible that she might injure its fair proportions. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z They give me two boiled eggs for supper, so I manage to live, but O! has beefsteak vanished into the land of dreams? and is turkey but the figment of my disordered imagination? Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z To him, women had been but playthings; he laughed at such an idea as the grand passion—a figment of the brain for the misleading of boys! An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Was what he had imagined only the figment of a brain astray? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Buscemi said, prompting some of his co-stars to run through a popular theory among Lebowski fans who believe Donny does not, in fact, exist; he is merely a figment of Walter's imagination. At a Chaotic Big Lebowski Reunion, The Dude Abides 2011-08-17T17:34:14Z Indeed, Addison himself would have had no occasion to be ashamed of them, if they had been figments of his own fancy. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z We no longer had to subsist upon fragments of unsubstantial suppositions; Tracy was a person, not a figment of one's imagination. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z It was a pleasant figment this, Eddy Lamb's plan of consulting his older friends. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z It seems to me at times as though our whole love were a figment of the brain—a passion that had turned into a formal matter of honor. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Breivik described himself as a member of another group, the Knights Templar, that may or may not prove a figment of his imagination. After Eden: Norway's Tragedy Spotlights Europe's Far Right 2011-07-29T08:50:00Z It may be urged, and probably with truth, that this belief is the figment of religious decadence. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z This wonderful discovery, at first regarded as a figment of scientific magic, soon attracted profound attention. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z They are not figments of the imagination, they are old mountains sunk deep in the past; and you have them for companions. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Overall, many industry executives say the bubble is a figment of Nervous Nelly imaginations. Analysis: Doubt creeps in to tech valuations at Sun Valley 2011-07-12T10:49:48Z And as for present causes of personal war, they are few—it requires something more than a sublimated idea or notion—an antiquated figment of the brain or present artificiality—to warm up the combatants. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z The entire thing is a figment, made up of wise-men’s warnings repeated endlessly and linked to the projections of technicians at the Congressional Budget Office and elsewhere. The catastrophic debt ceiling debate 2011-07-11T19:40:00Z The entertainment is a bonus, and sometimes, when we're focused too much on story lines and not the experience, joy is a figment. Remembering how to be a sports fan 2011-06-26T01:04:03Z A figment of the imagination, you will reply. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z This is an extrapolation of an earlier theory positing that while Ferris may not be a figment, he is actually the story-arc-less supporting character in a movie more accurately described as "Cameron Frye's Day Off." Why we still love "Ferris Bueller" 2011-06-23T17:01:00Z Men have been more interested in this figment of Shakespeare's imagination than in any man that ever lived. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z A pleasant prospect when we knew that Germany regarded the Monroe Doctrine as the silly figment of a democratic brain unversed in the real meaning of world politics. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z In his concluding sentence this greatest of Palæozoic palæontologists78 affirms that, “The theoretical evolution of the Cephalopods is, like that of the Trilobites, a mere figment of imagination, without any foundation in fact.” The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The poet certainly wrote it ‘with his eye on the object,’ for the stream in question was no figment of the brain, but the Penwhapple in Ayrshire. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In the first place, it is objected that a man might spend his time more profitably than by reading the figments of poets. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Whether they are anything more than the figment of an excited imagination remains to be seen, for, while we have a little positive evidence, this only emphasizes the possibility of coincidental day-dreaming in nervous persons. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z There was "no evil, except as a figment of mortal mind." My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z And thereupon I woke And disarrayed the figment of my thought. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The “canals of Mars” are not mere figments of the imagination, but have a real objective basis. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z The most precise of us are liable to figments of the imagination, madam. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Art, as I have frequently had to observe, emancipated the human faculties, and humanized the figments of the middle age by investing them with corporeal shape and forms of æsthetic beauty. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But it was only a futile figment of a weary brain. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z He's pretty famous, I mused, even though he is just a figment of someone's imagination. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z Still, the girl known on chat forums as ‘k, and who spoke to me by e-mail as “Kayla,” is no figment of the Internet’s imagination: she helped all but destroy a company. Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary? 2011-03-18T15:36:39Z “I am not given to figments of the imagination.” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The right to be forgotten is a figment of our imaginations. We have no right to be forgotten online 2011-03-18T14:16:58Z Even if the golden days of quiet dining are a figment of my imagination, can’t we all use our inside voices anyway? | Noisy Diners 2011-03-18T11:30:08Z Imagination .. . some philosophers think everything is a figment of people's imagination--or would it be figments? Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z He was as far away from her life now as those fascinating figments of the poetic brain, Messrs. Aram and Maltravers. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z He was quite unconscious of the existence of those young ladies; if, indeed, they were not entirely the figments of Mrs. Errington's fertile fancy. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z The man who says that dreams are figments is a fool. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z "Behold the citadel which my master has ordered me to build for your protection," the commandant continued, pouring his figments through the leering mouth of the dwarf Gaudriole. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z "For Heaven's sake, don't throw hundreds a year away for a figment!" A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z Mum says Whisper is just a figment of my imagination, and I should ignore him. Unglued 2011-02-23T18:21:19.103Z Both were illusory, figments of our finite minds; both could be subdivided or extended infinitely; both, therefore, were unrealities. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Not a figment, then, but a reality—the veritable jumble of houses we had been seeking, and had well-nigh given up as a myth. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z He refused to regard that great city and its ordered life as dreamlike figments of the imagination. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z But it looked so odd, with a fringe of flame red hair around its bluish-white face, that they mistook it for a figment of the Chinese imagination. Specimens: Heroic Naturalists or Imperialist Dogs? 2011-01-24T17:30:28Z Brethren, have an extraordinary care also of the late Theosophers, that teach men to climbe to Heaven upon a ladder of lying figments. The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America 2011-01-17T03:00:44.767Z And yet we boast that our sacrament, nay, our figment, is established and proved by this saying of the Apostle, which is diametrically opposed to it. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z For an instant I stood petrified, marvelling whether this could indeed be she, or whether it was some figment conjured up by my excited brain. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Subtract from the universe its ethical meaning, and nothing remains but an unreal phantom, the figment of false metaphysics. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z Hence a single ideal figment can cover a large part of what each American is in his character, and almost the whole of what most Americans are in their social outlook and political judgements. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The Bang Bang Club never really existed; it was a figment of somebody else’s imagination. Lens: Joao Silva on ?Acting Despite Fear? 2010-10-26T14:43:00Z I still think those traits mentioned in the first paragraph were not a figment of anyone's imagination. Jack Zduriencik to return as Mariners general manager 2010-09-29T03:53:00Z "PTSD is not a figment of someone's imagination," Chiarelli lectured an auditorium of skeptical sergeants last fall. Military reckons with the mental wounds of war 2010-07-18T00:41:00Z Is then the subject-matter of Religion something real and substantial, or is it a mere figment of the imagination? Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The very thought that I may be a figment of Hopps' imagination or his alter ego is disturbing in the extreme. County cricket - live! 2010-06-01T09:14:00Z “He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in a war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.” Book Review - Operation Mincemeat - By Ben Macintyre 2010-05-14T20:47:00Z It is in good part a figment of the citizens’ imagination. Where All That Money Went 2010-04-30T10:00:00Z And there's all of us thinking the Gaia theory was just a figment of the hippy imagination! Letters: Wake-up call of volcano disruption 2010-04-19T23:05:00Z Your piece is so self-righteous and crass that any panache you exercised in the past is most likely a figment of your own imagination. Complaint Box | Yes, Brilliant Parent, We Hear You 2010-03-05T16:52:00Z The coaches we shortlisted are the names we are working on and other coaches are figments of the media. Nigeria reject coaching speculation 2010-02-17T19:14:00Z The King's College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women's imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists. 2010-01-04T10:04:00Z He, too, had woven many a fantastic tale of the sea, its storms and monsters leaping from the crests of waves, and all such figments of the imagination, and this fable was but the same. The Girl From Tim's Place Avaunt, base mockery; am I to be daunted with a mere figment of the brain? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Taken at the worst, death can only be dissolution, for the rivers of fire and the tortures of Tartarus are mere figments of poetic fancy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Just as the first half hour was up the figment of a tenable plan floated into Glenning's brain. The Man from Jericho On the one hand he lays it down that "Without verification a theoretic conception is a mere figment of the intellect." The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer To what extent this was really intended by the natives, and to what extent was the mere figment of the Admiral's lively imagination, it is impossible to say. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 His heart was in sympathy with all the carnal needs of humanity, but not the spiritual; those he considered figments of the imagination, useful, maybe, when old age came, but needless during healthy, active life. Rockhaven The primacy for which they contend is the merest figment; there are no material advantages at stake. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Cosden repeated after him; and Huntington turned away to chuckle to himself that he had paid homage to the reality while his friend believed him to be giving tribute to the figment. The Bachelors A Novel Morals, belief, reputation, what figments all these things. A Bed of Roses There is a Wallachian legend which, like most of the figments of popular fancy, has a moral in it. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses In the latter case, your idea of beauty is a mere invention, a figment of your own brain. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy What, the ordinary believer may ask, would be left of a religion if its historical statements should turn out to be mere figments and its framework of dogmas to be nonsense? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He blessed the figment for bestowing her name upon the reality! The Bachelors A Novel He was less a man than a figment, for he seemed top heavy almost. A Bed of Roses We are fools to your deductions, in these figments of heart-closing; We are traitors to your causes, in these sympathies defiled. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II These men believe in the figments of their imagination, and make us believe in them. The Vagabond in Literature As she stared desperately, her mind roused to frantic denials, her eyes straining to banish this monstrous figment, the door of the cabin opened and Ewing came out. Ewing\\'s Lady Until the figment became a reality and was dismissed it was a haunting menace to his peace of mind. The Bachelors A Novel To him she must have seemed, she could have seemed at first, only a figment of dreams. Where the Pavement Ends The thing, as it came near, was like some figment from a nightmare. The Golden Amazons of Venus If this doctrine of a Universal Brotherhood is a sentimental figment, the foundation is swept away at once of Jefferies’ Nature creed. The Vagabond in Literature And it was no phantom, either, no figment of an overwrought imagination. Pledged to the Dead Marian Seymour herself would not have recognized her own face could Huntington have translated it out of the figments of his mind upon the crude medium of canvas. The Bachelors A Novel He would now attempt to prove, that, as applied to either of these, this principle was not only false, but that it was a mere figment, and calculated to produce tremendous evil. Discussion on American Slavery To Willy I said: "If Red's a figment of your imagination, why didn't you imagine her a more practical size in the first place?" The Animated Pinup I was beginning to believe you were a figment of the well-known Spindrift imagination. The Golden Skull "Do you mean that the existence I remember was merely an induced figment of my imagination?" Wheels Within Not even a vestige of her clothing remained to prove that she was more than the figment of a crazed brain. When the Cock Crows Nezahualpilli soon passes away, And the rival King, he so lately crowned, Divides his Kingdom, and makes a prey, A figment, with empire's empty sound. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation He feared, yet longed for the coming light; feared, lest it should prove that the plan which had been revealed to him might be but the figment of a frenzied dream. The Vision of Elijah Berl They had the feeling that at any moment they might return to normal conditions and find it all a figment of the imagination. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp Believe me, darling, your ill-health was in great part a figment got up by Mrs. Vane for her own ends. A Life Sentence A Novel And as Eden paced the room she tried to feel that her distress was but a figment of fancy, an illusory representation evoked out of nothing. Eden An Episode In fact this primitive paradise described by Kropotkin is just as much a figment of his imagination as the Anarchist paradise of the future. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Maybe he was just a figment of our imagination. You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did Even she at first had deemed it but hallucination, the figment of some fever of the brain—this had been a day of dreams! The Story of Old Fort Loudon In the Middle Ages, though the complete ignorance of the classics, once imagined as prevailing, has been shown to be a figment, scarcely anybody could claim to be a scholar. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Was not that but a figment of those vague nightmares he had had as a child, when he fell asleep with his clothes on? A Canadian Bankclerk It was no figment of a waking dream. Doubloons—and the Girl Whether the being in question was a figment of the brain or a real inhabitant of time and space, let the reader, once more, decide for himself. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Wastefulness, in this great period of confusion, of the most precious things that we possess: time, thought, and feeling refused to the realities of the world, and lavished on the figments of the imagination. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II Put an artificial fruit in your mouth, or only handle it, and you will soon perceive the difference between judging from taste or tact, and judging from the abstract figment called judgement. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Was he really to meet such persons as the Bird Daughter and Cathbarr of the Ax, or were they only the figment of a crazed old woman's brain? Nuala O'Malley History tells us nothing concerning Kado the Striver, but it is most unlikely that he is a mere figment of popular imagination. Legends & Romances of Brittany But in the laboratory of opinion, beside the studious lamp, we begin already to discard these figments. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) A figment of my own imagination amplified by a machine. The Dueling Machine A figment, too, which his enfranchised intellect discarded. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) |
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