She had never been in the shadow of death before, and her imaginative spirit bowed before its majesty.
More than one of the three has confessed to me since that a large part of the anxiety was caused by his simple absence and by imaginative little pictures of street accidents.
In the absence of literature, one seeks in the mythology of a race a test of itsimaginative quality; and in its religion, an indication of its power of abstract thinking.
In the sphere of historical or philosophical or imaginative literature, not much has yet been done, nor is the class prepared to read such books a large one.
It was curious to see how the passers-by regarded these brilliant fantasies, as they came floating down, and made the dull atmosphere imaginative about them.
In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind.
Usually it is the nervy and imaginative men who go to a new country.
She was glad that companionship should render the little maiden more active and childlike, for Edward's abstraction had made her believe that there might be danger in indulging the dreaminess of the imaginative child.
No one can guess the delight a doll is to a solitary imaginative child.
The Aztecs were a highlyimaginative and poetical people.
They had been delivered by the very able Professor Wynne Davies, on that most fascinating of all subjects to the truly imaginative mind, the Idea of God.
For such a boy as he, with an eager, imaginative brain always asking questions of its profoundly ignorant owner, the cabin was a far more interesting place than the half-deck or the forecastle.
These Olympian sconce bearers could not eat him, and there is always comfort in that reflection for an imaginative mind.
France, personified by her instinctively, though she had no vivid imaginative gift, did not wound her with a poisoned dart.
He had not trifled with her, hardly flattered; he had done no more than kindle a young girl's imaginative liking.
He wrote romances, of little power, the best being "Rose et Ninette" of 1892, but his imaginative work steadily declined in value.
The activity of the walk, the habit that led him by a route where he was familiar with the least incidents, allowed full liberty to his imaginative faculties.
Romanticism has been defined, half seriously, as the art of presenting to a people the literary works which can give the greatest imaginative pleasure in the actual state of their habits and beliefs.
We have here expressed in plain language the imaginative memory of the beloved dead, rising upon the past, like moonlight upon midnight: The gleam, the shadow, and the peace supreme.
It lives only in its proper form of imaginative beauty.
Nevertheless, where the material lends itself at all to imaginative handling we get effects that are impressive and even superb.
He excels in the verisimilitude of his portraiture, in the authentic delineation of character, preserving the type and developing the main lines of thought and action by imaginative insight, with high artistic fidelity in details.
It is close packed with thought, and must have been especially hard to write, since the Poet's problem was to express in terse and picturesque and imaginative language what at bottom is philosophic and even prosaic detail.
There could, however, be little or no progress without imaginative work.
It is only within very recent years that the modern sciences have been stripped of much absurd matter derived from crude imaginative work.
The Corsicans, like other brave peoples of fiery and imaginative temperament, have a war-dance, called the Moresca.
If through imaginative planning you know in advance about what to expect, and if you feel your intentions toward your prospect are absolutely square, you will not be afraid to seek your chance anywhere.
His imaginative mind is planning how he can use the order he just has closed, to influence some other buyer to make a contract.
The salesman cannot furnish them convincingly with his imaginative "cozy" word pictures.
You use some imagination every day--use all your imaginative power.
All your imaginative powers can be made to work together to accomplish the one certain result you desire.
Chatrian is credited with being the moreimaginative of the two.
This is putting things pretty strongly; but it is said of a man of great imaginative power by a man of great imaginative power, and may, therefore, be taken as the opinion of an expert, all the more honest because he is prejudiced.
But such of it as he did consume served as a stimulant for the purely imaginative part of his work, when the labor that required no stimulant was over and done.
Indolence, that is to say, chronic fatigue, appears to be the natural habit of imaginative brains.
That night, and not morning, is most appropriate to imaginative work is supported by a general consent among those who have followed instinct in this matter.
I have said, assisted by Baron Haussmann, toiled in the great pacific task of renovating Paris, not with the imaginative genius of his uncle, but with an undeniable largeness and sagacity.
But the moreimaginative Cornelia refused to be daunted.
Some people, less accurate or more imaginative than the rest, went so far as to announce the engagement as an actual fact.
As to the effect of the manufacturing system on the bodily health, we must beg leave to estimate it by a standard far too low and vulgar for a mind so imaginative as that of Mr. Southey, the proportion of births and deaths.
The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative that personifications, when he dealt with them, became men.
The domain of this imperial art is commensurate with the imaginative faculty.
I only mention these as passing instances of that rich Imaginative fertility which is as much their characteristic as is their wonderful power of argumentation.
He was startled as he remembered the purely imaginative picture he had himself given to the seriously interested Bowers of the possible incongruous personality of the poetess.
But even this imaginative appeal did not enter into her feelings.
It is not alone the final informing and magnetized imaginative quality that most other dancers lack; it is also just this muscular co-ordination.
I shall have served my purpose if I have succeeded in this humble article in bringing back to those who have seen him a flashing glimpse of the imaginative actuality.
I have indicated elsewhere her skill in endowing the part with poetry and imaginative force without making ducks and drakes of the traditions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imaginative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
