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    imaginary


    1. His left hand cups around an imaginary shoulder


    2. He locks eyes with me as the right hand makes a fist, pumping a stabbing motion into an imaginary chest


    3. Somehow, he could tell she was wiggling imaginary toes


    4. I could not mark the world with my anger, but by looking my demons in the eye, by taking that black heart of oblivion in my imaginary hands and squeezing it until it burst, I found the strength to stand as a man in the darkness


    5. I held imaginary conversations with them, planning a safe route through the hurts and psychological infirmity of captivity


    6. while playing with his imaginary herd of cattle


    7. Jason made him also maintain a virtual model of the study planet as it actually exists, it had been his sentence to put as much time into that as he did into his imaginary one based on it


    8. remember, the Heart-Wall is an imaginary construct


    9. Just roll your hands over and over slowly like this,” And the old man slowly revolved his hands around an imaginary point in front of him; the younger man imitated


    10. and if I drew imaginary lines from both first and third they would intersect at

    11. The crowd kept its distance, like there was an imaginary shield of hate


    12. “Chloe's waist is this,” she pantomimed with her hands ringing an imaginary waist, “And your waist is this


    13. "I assure you that in all the millions of crystals forged in the golden age, none had the ability to build an imaginary universe, even with a helmet


    14. "Yes, it's just part of the wilds of a fellow Angel's imaginary universe


    15. The ghosts live like Gods in imaginary worlds that exist only as sensations in the mind somehow


    16. This flavour, real or imaginary, is sometimes peculiar to the produce of a few vineyards; sometimes it extends through the greater part of a small district, and sometimes through a considerable part of a large province


    17. therefore, which he commonly pays for it, is paid, not for an imaginary, but for a real value


    18. She suddenly fell from her imaginary cloud when a voice beside her broke the silence, jerking her back to reality


    19. The loss which Spain and Portugal could sustain by this exportation of their gold and silver, would be altogether nominal and imaginary


    20. But if this money sinks in its value, in the quantity of labour, provisions, and home-made commodities of all different kinds which it is capable of purchasing, as much as it rises in its quantity, the service will be little more than nominal and imaginary

    21. that the life’s core was a star and that a bunch of imaginary planets revolved around it in his


    22. The law which put an end to all prosecutions against witchcraft, which put it out of any man's power to gratify his own malice by accusing his neighbour of that imaginary crime, seems effectually to have put an end to those fears and suspicions, by taking away the great cause which encouraged and supported them


    23. Isin ducked an imaginary blow


    24. and starts to step slowly sideways as he prepares to go into hand-to-hand combat with an imaginary opponent


    25. That spirit, besides, would necessarily diminish very much the dangers to liberty, whether real or imaginary, which are commonly apprehended from a standing army


    26. For a few seconds Torbin considered if the voice was imaginary, that this was his own conscience cautioning him against rash action


    27. imaginary items on his list


    28. The imaginary guide was bored and silently sat on the window


    29. These festivals took place quarterly, when the King paid his periodical visit to show his respect to the deified shades of the departed, and also to satiate his real, and their imaginary, blood-lust, by the decapitation of twenty victims, whose blood was collected in the sacred bowl


    30. These seemingly merciful provisos were not available for those who were to be executed for an offence, real or imaginary, against the King, and if he wanted a victim, he had not far to look for an excuse

    31. His adze was dripping with blood and he stood looking up the street where men fought the flames and an imaginary foe


    32. A nation harboring hostile intentions against its neighbors requires an enemy, whether real or imaginary, in order to advance its domestic or geopolitical designs


    33. It is axiomatic that every individual who properly enjoys life, gives (reflective) pause to all that is meaningful and of certain value; held motionless by uncertain forms that have yet to take shape however aroused by such notions that (necessarily) compel he or she to probe deeper into their essential nature notwithstanding how they (may) oftentimes exceed the capacious limits of that individual‘s (private) understanding that nevertheless continues to intrigue inquiring minds cognizant of intuitive impressions part real / part imaginary yet real in the real sense of being One in All; (however separated) whose underlying presence, however, conveys a (higher) spiritual or moral standing…that the young, conditioned by the expectancies of youth united with the old seeking redemption for unfulfilled promises or missed opportunities; each converging toward the same starting/ending point, the one embarking on life and the other approaching its end, in some manner, however, occasioning a (new) beginning, a jubilee, an extension of life which becomes younger (while growing older), brought together, youth/age, childlike in all its manly/womanly innocence while the middle years patiently bide their appointed time


    34. Liberalism‘s gradual departure from traditional conventions and quasi/moderate viewpoints coupled with its uncanny fascination with centralized authority has engendered an utopic, foolishly optimistic worldview based on imaginary global assumptions rather than practical means


    35. Neither does it improve matters by exposing the modern viewer to imaginary, trumped-up ―reality‖ survival programs pitting women, who are just as likely to cop the coveted prize, against men in feats requiring athleticism and strength


    36. We all depend on government for a wide range of things, from police to hospitals to fire protection to retirement to defense against (largely imaginary) foreign invasions


    37. A generation stirred by emotion rather than reason; rejecting all forms of conventional authority for its own sake or that (otherwise) interfered with their simplistic social designs, produced an intolerance, especially among its more radical members, for belief systems and points of view contrary to its imaginary worldview


    38. Unless I too have fallen victim to the imaginary ideals of youth, I believe that, on some level at least, many of the athletes of my generation were properly aware of the underlying aspects that defined their ―relationship‖ with their fans; notwithstanding (obvious) concern over their own public persona


    39. (His actual faults, not imaginary ones like birther claims


    40. “Ze-e va-aarr!” he said, bulging his eyes and then aiming and shooting with an imaginary sort of rifle, even taking proper care to imitate the recoil

    41. He described his own imaginary family of a wife and three children, and added how he and his brother had to care for their aged mother, their father having died of pneumonia the previous winter


    42. It was obvious to him that her return to the States was imaginary, and that she had not responded to his letters in order to keep him unaware that she was in Germany


    43. The absurdity of grown adults holding imaginary cups to their mouths and eating imaginary cake would have made him choke with laughter if their physical condition wasn’t so painfully haggard


    44. The smallest of snippets of all these “sounds?” seemed to be endlessly descending upon my inner mind, as snowflakes on a windless winter, seeming to tell me of things beyond that of even the most vivid of any imaginary guesses


    45. “The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs


    46. Another aspect of the speculation that mines the dependent countries is to force them to burn billion dollars to maintain its stable coin, that is, exchanging real efforts for imaginary coin when transferring immense wealth for financial speculation


    47. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page


    48. Kosmo moved his hands back and forth, fingers opposed, as though he were squeezing an imaginary ball when he said this


    49. and just be happier and letting go of the imaginary crutches that I


    50. Her fingers strained against imaginary bonds as she willed herself to move, to reach for the scroll before it was too late














































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    Synonyms for "imaginary"

    complex number complex quantity imaginary imaginary number fanciful notional theoretical fantastic illusory impractical unreal chimerical

    "imaginary" definitions

    (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1


    not based on fact; existing only in the imagination