Word Finder - imaginative

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Having a lively or creative imagination.

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Tending to be fanciful or inventive.

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False or imagined.

Probably nothing like what was on her imaginative mind.

In the Literature of Europe there are many passages of great imaginative beauty.

Classification for the first time was something more than the expression of a fancy, not that it had not also its imaginative side.

The pages of the book she reads become to her like paintings, to which her imaginative powers give life and colour.

To her imaginative and inexperienced mind, it was obvious that he was doing their homework.

The love of Giovanni and Annabella is rightly depicted as more imaginative than sensual."

Certainly no poet would venture to despise Wagner's imaginative conception of Kundry.

The duchess of Kent had communicated her projects to Lord Melbourne, and they were known to many other statesmen, and to persons in society; but the gossip of drawing-rooms during the years 1837-38 continually represented that the young queen had fallen in love with Prince This or Lord That, and the more imaginative babblers hinted at post-chaises waiting outside Kensington Gardens in the night, private marriages and so forth.

He insisted especially on the necessity of truth to nature in the imaginative presentation of the facts of life, and in one letter he boldly proclaimed the superiority of Shakespeare to Corneille, Racine and Voltaire.

His only important precursors in serious poetry were Ennius and Lucilius, and, though he derived from the first of these an impulse to shape the Latin tongue into a fitting vehicle for the expression of elevated emotion and imaginative conception, he could find in neither a guide to follow in the task he set before himself.

The work is highly imaginative and often grotesque, but it is pervaded by an unusually high ethical enthusiasm.

Unlike some of his predecessors, he had no grand, original schemes of his own to impose by force on unwilling subjects, and no pet crotchets to lead his judgment astray; and he instinctively looked with a suspicious, critical eye on the panaceas which more imaginative and less cautious people recommended.

But for Ixion in Heaven, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla, Disraeli could not be placed among the greater writers of his kind; yet none of his imaginative books have been so little read as these.

A " circular system " was advocated by the eminent botanist Fries, and the views of Macleay met with the partial approbation of the celebrated entomologist Kirby, while at least as much may be said of the imaginative Oken, whose mysticism far surpassed that of the Quinarians.

It was the tendency of the philosophy of Cousin to outline things and to fill up the details in an artistic and imaginative interest.

In general use the term is applied rather promiscuously and frequently by way of criticism to an attitude of mind which is imaginative, aloof from mundane affairs and unmoved by practical considerations.

If we cut away the mass of mere fiction which Philostratus accumulated, we have left a highly imaginative, earnest reformer who laboured to infuse into the flaccid dialectic of paganism a saner spirit of practical morality.

He appealed to the patriotism of his fellow-countrymen, to their imaginative love for the national greatness, and he did not appeal in vain.

For Alfred himself we have also Assers biography and the Annals of St Neols, a very imaginative compilation, while most of the stories which have made Alfreds name a household word are fabulous.

Some of the most important like quantum theory have required great imaginative leaps.

Go on, be imaginative, or just plain vindictive!

They are highly imaginative, dramatic, and can draw recognizable simple objects.

The preschooler is imaginative, creative, and curious.

There have been many more effective orators, for lack of imaginative suppleness prevented him from penetrating to the inner mind of his hearers; defects in delivery weakened the intrinsic persuasiveness of his reasoning; and he had not that commanding authority of character and personality which has so often been the secret of triumphant eloquence.

It is almost incredible that the superb imaginative amplification of the description of Hyder Ali's descent upon the Carnatic should be from the same pen as the grave, simple, unadorned Address to the King (1777), where each sentence falls on the ear with the accent of some golden-tongued oracle of the wise gods.

Hopkinson's ballad is an imaginative expansion of the actual facts.

In the Thoughts on Education imaginative sentiment is never allowed to weigh against utility; information is subordinate to the formation of useful character; the part which habit plays in individuals is always kept in view; the dependence of intelligence and character, which it is the purpose of education to improve, upon health of body is steadily inculcated; to make children happy in undergoing education is a favourite precept; accumulating facts without exercising thought, and without accustoming the youthful mind to look for evidence, is always referred to as a cardinal vice.

Carlyle's famous work, published in 1837, is more of a prose epic than a history, omitting all detail which would not heighten the imaginative effect and tinged by all the favourite ideas of the author.

The characteristics of this Western school are no doubt the result of the contact of Scandinavian colonists of the Viking-tide, living lives of the wildest adventure, with an imaginative and civilized race, that exercised upon them a very strong and lasting influence (the effects of which were also felt in Iceland, but in a different way).

Perrine with the Crossley reflector in 1904-1905, and the third at Greenwich in but the imaginative side of knowledge had also potent representatives during the latter half of the 18th century.

For while he maintains constantly his favourite maxim "that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in the senses" (nihil in intellectu quod non pries fuerit in sensu), while he contends that the imaginative faculty (phantasia) is the counterpart of sense - that, as it has to do with material images, it is itself, like sense, material, and essentially the same both in men and brutes; he at the same time admits that the intellect, which he affirms to be immaterial and immortal - the most characteristic distinction of humanity - attains notions and truths of which no effort of sensation or imagination can give us the slightest apprehension (Op. ii..383).

A fourth, like Euemerus, would get rid of the supernatural element altogether, and find only an imaginative rendering of actual history.

He is the prince of story-tellers, narratives, real and imaginative, spring from his lips, which are the truest portraiture of composite rather than individual Oriental life, though narrated under forms of individual experience."

Vain and imaginative, Th his reputation was enormously enhanced by his Economies royales; he was no innovator, and being a true representative of the nation at that period, like it he was but lukewarm towards reform, accepting it always against the grain.

The extraordinary advances made by him in this branch of knowledge were owing to his happy method of applying mathematical analysis to physical problems. As a pure mathematician he was, it is true, surpassed in profundity by more than one among his pupils and contemporaries; and in the wider imaginative grasp of abstract geometrical principles he cannot be compared with Fermat, Descartes or Pascal, to say nothing of Newton or Leibnitz.

Spectacular jumps and imaginative ambushes give you plenty to chew on, but also provide refreshing contrast to other sections of the game.

Heller's surprising ability to get into the mind of a middle-aged spinster also illustrates her strong talent for imaginative empathy.

And to anyone accustomed to the imaginative handling of documents, the internal evidence bears out the claim.

The restaurant starter menu comprises a wonderfully imaginative combination of classic flavors with an eye on the best of international trends.

Coupled with imaginative sales promotion and some amazing window displays it helped the Company to become Europe's biggest confectioner.

While the game draws from some of the official GM Nation information, it also goes beyond where important issues needed more imaginative exploration.

And the food is simply exquisite - fresh, imaginative, perfectly cooked and very tasty.

Much of it quite fanciful based on some of the most imaginative lobbying I have seen from any organization.

It was their distinctive style and imaginative flair that first caught Angus ' eye and prompted him to approach them.

The time is ripe for the imaginative thinking and innovation that can be derived from transport futurology.

My pictures can be realistic or imaginative using watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, pen and wash or mixed media.

Anything goes, be imaginative, anything from the head plant you caught on film to the 200 stair handrail you tamed last season.

Butterworth and Laurence have produced something imaginative and new.

The screenplay, by Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, allows for wildly imaginative production design and some rich, dark comedy.

Take notes in style with this fantastically imaginative notebook.