Watsuki said that he imagined Kenshin's voice to be " more neutral.

For I imagined that what was to be got from books was not so profitable to me as what came from the living and abiding voice.

In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus ' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia.

When the Voice of Bam wants the action to restart, rather than instruct the two player to “ Start again ,” it says – significantly – “ I start again ” suggesting that the words and actions of the two men are being directly controlled, remembered or imagined by the consciousness behind the voice, presumably the Bam as he is in the present.

James George Frazer asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfunction: " Men mistook the order of their ideas for the order of nature, and hence imagined that the control which they have, or seem to have, over their thoughts, permitted them to exercise a corresponding control over things.

* A fictionalised version of Arthur Balfour ( identified as " Mr. Balfour ") appears as British Prime Minister in the science fiction romance The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith, published in 1893 ( when Balfour was still in opposition ) but set in an imagined near future of 1903-1905.

According to the Golden Legend, the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place in a place he called " Silene ", in Libya ; the Golden Legend is the first to place this legend in Libya as a sufficiently exotic locale, where a dragon might be imagined.

Episode plots frequently feature George manufacturing elaborate deceptions at work or in his relationships in order to gain or maintain some small or imagined advantage or ( pretend ) image of success.

Jarilo became identified with St. George after the arrival of Christianity, possibly because of mild similarities in their names, but more likely because St. George is usually shown as a knight on a horse slaying a dragon, whilst the Slavs believed Jarilo to have an equine appearance, and that for a time he lived in the green underworld with his stepfather Veles, imagined to be a serpent-like or dragon-like deity.

Author George MacDonald Fraser wryly observed or imagined Border traits and names among controversial people in modern American history ; Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, among others.

Bush and his son George W. Bush it has actively involved attacking " an imagined or invented threat " such as Grenada and Iraq.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

In his moments of worst agony, Martin imagined what his friends were saying.

Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures ( or histories ), to " see " things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

::: Indicates that things are not what one imagined them to be.

It has the trademark humour of Goldman, and the unexpected fairy tale twist akin to an anti-fairy tale as the characters never end up as what we imagined or expect in fairy tales.

Richard North says that " though it is not clear what the poet takes these women to be, their female sex, riding in flight and throwing spears suggest that they were imagined in England as a female being analogous to the later Norse valkyrjur.

But it is usually clear what general types of consequences the author thinks are reasonable to suppose would have been likely to occur, and what specific details are included in an imagined timeline only for illustrative purposes.

Xenophon also, as Strauss pointed out, wrote a dialogue, Hiero which showed a wise man dealing sympathetically with a tyrant, coming close to what Machiavelli would do in questioning the ideal of " the imagined prince ".

As she later wrote to her father ," He alleged various reasons, hatred to children, religious motives, a desire to preserve my beauty, and, finally this last year he told me his true reason ... that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening 10th April.

The one considerable departure from what was imagined concerns the opening sequence in the street.

Until then, the Western public imagined their secret services as promoters of democracy and democratic values ; a view principally espoused in the popular James Bond thriller novels — romantic high adventures about what a Secret Service should be.

Jealousy is the powerful complex of emotions experienced at the loss, real or imagined, of something or someone you believe is yours, whereas envy concerns what you do not have and would like to possess.

On board the Columbia was a copy of a drawing by Petr Ginz, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, who depicted what he imagined the Earth looked like from the Moon when he was a 14-year-old prisoner in the Terezín concentration camp.

In 1982 Fixx published Jackpot !, the story of what happened after the publication of The Complete Book of Running when he experienced the " Great American Fame Machine ", becoming richer and more celebrated than he could have imagined.

In Hecht's poem she " caught the bitter allusion to the sea ", imagined " what his whiskers would feel like / On the back of her neck ", and felt sad as she looked out across the channel.

The Compendium Maleficarum ( 1608 ), by Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, Guaccius is a book published by an Italian priest with some illustrations of what he imagined could be a Sabbat, and gives a description of it ; a brief summary can be cited as an example: " the attendants go riding flying goats, trample the cross, are made to be re-baptised in the name of the Devil, give their clothes to him, kiss the Devil's behind, and dance back to back forming a round ".

Throughout his historical career — at the École Normale and the Sorbonne and in his lectures delivered to the empress Eugénie — his sole aim was to ascertain the truth, and in the defence of truth his polemics against what he imagined to be the blindness and insincerity of his critics sometimes assumed a character of harshness and injustice.

They both express surprise that the other woman is not at all what they'd imagined.

Denny described the musical style as " a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient ... what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like ... it's pure fantasy though.

But then having thought on a tender way of polishing, proper for metal, whereby, as I imagined, the figure also would be corrected to the last ; I began to try, what might be effected in this kind, and by degrees so far perfected an instrument ( in the essential parts of it like that I sent to London ), by which I could discern Jupiter's 4 Concomitants, and showed them diverse times to two others of my acquaintance.

However, rules or system elements that are used to resolve what does and doesn't happen in the imagined situation are typically " non-diegetic ".

That is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh.

Al-Iji's rejection of astronomy was, in turn, challenged by al-Sharif al-Jurjani ( 1339 – 1413 ), who maintained that " even if they do not have an external reality, yet they are things that are correctly imagined and correspond to what in actuality ".

* convex space ( popularized by John Peponis and his collaborators at Georgia Tech ), an occupiable void where, if imagined as a wireframe diagram, no line between two of its points goes outside its perimeter, in other words, all points within the polygon are visible to all other points within the polygon.

She is sometimes imagined as “ an old woman who insults the month of March when she goes out with a herd of sheep or goats .” Her name probably originates from the Byzantine calendar, which celebrates the 2nd century martyr-saint Eudokia of Heliopolis ( Evdokia ) on March 1.

The album version of " Rock Lobster " ( released in 1979 by Warner Bros. Records ) lasts about seven minutes and includes nonsensical lyrics about a beach party and excited rants about real or imagined marine animals (" There goes a dog-fish, chased by a cat-fish, in flew a sea robin, watch out for that piranha, there goes a narwhal, here comes a bikini whale!

The effect on the intellectuals among his audience may well be imagined.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

A fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual that expresses certain desires or aims on the part of its creator.

* Derek Gregory ( born 1951 ), famous for writing on the Israeli, U. S. and UK actions in the Middle East after 9 / 11, influenced by Edward Said and has contributed work on imagined geographies.

* Smith, Gary Scott, Heaven in the American Imagination ( Oxford University Press ; 2011 ) 339 pages ; draws on art, music, folklore, sermons, literature, psychology, and other realms in a study of how Americans since the Puritans have imagined heaven.

For Stephen T. Engel, on the other hand, Rousseau's nationalism anticipated modern theories of " imagined communities " that transcend social and religious divisions within states.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

He eventually believes that Case is his subordinate during Screaming Fist, and attempts to escape imagined Russian forces using the escape pod on the Marcus Garvey.

In essence, a Turing machine is imagined to be a simple computer that reads and writes symbols one at a time on an endless tape by strictly following a set of rules.

When Stroessner took office on August 15, 1954, few people imagined that this circumspect, unassuming forty-one-year-old commander in chief would be a master politician capable of outmaneuvering and outlasting them all.

In 1974, when a shorter version of the story appeared, a suit was brought on behalf of Mayling, and Cowles testified ( perhaps to protect Wilkie ) that the affair was “ impossible .” Taylor speculates that Willkie, who had several drinks when he talked to Cowles, had exaggerated or misled his young friend who had imagined the rest.

However, while Vesalius dared to admit he could not find these holes, he did not dream of disputing Galen on the distribution of blood, and so imagined it distilled through the unbroken partition between the ventricles.

He meets some new friends during the Exam, and the struggles he must face on his quest will be beyond anything he's ever imagined.

Some northern newspapers tried to pin the blame on an imagined gang of unreconstructed Confederate officers.

The name is " so styled on the basis of a more or less fanciful resemblance imagined in the form of the knot.

As part of the role, they dealt with correspondence from the general public on the subject of civil liberties, much of which involved paranoid rants about imagined conspiracies.

The conductor of the 1951 production, Hans Knappertsbusch, on being asked how he could conduct such a disgraceful travesty, declared that right up until the dress rehearsal he imagined that the stage decorations were still to come.

Shortly before his death in 1695, he completed a book entitled Cosmotheoros in which he discussed his notions of life on other planets, which he imagined was similar to that on Earth.

" The Vita Pardulfi, written in the middle of the eighth century, reports that after the battle ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân's forces burned and looted their way through the Limousin on their way back to Al-Andalus, which implies that they were not destroyed to the extent imagined in the Continuations of Fredegar.

Widely admired for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon, it is generally considered one of Heinlein's major novels as well as one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.

A third, constructivist, set of accounts stress the importance of the socially constructed nature of ethnic groups, drawing on Benedict Anderson's concept of the imagined community.

Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health.