The phrase " tilting at windmills " to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies derives from an iconic scene in the book.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

File: King Rene-s Honeymoon 1864. jpg | King Rene's Honeymoon, 1864, an imaginary scene in the life of the art-loving medieval king René of Anjou.

The Flaxman Gallery at University College London, showing Henry Tonks's imaginary scene of Bentham approving the plans of the university buildings.

A large painting by Henry Tonks hanging in UCL's Flaxman Gallery depicts Bentham approving the plans of the new university, but it was executed in 1922 and the scene is entirely imaginary.

King René's Honeymoon, 1864, an imaginary scene in the life of the king by Ford Madox Brown.

In Donald Jeffries ' 2007 novel The Unreals, there is a scene featuring an imaginary meeting where FDR and other important Depression era figures are plotting the assassination of Senator Long.

In the final scene, on his way to court, he has an imaginary dialogue with the Tzar.

( Some years earlier, Salinger had actually referenced Casablanca in his 1944 short story " Both Parties Concerned "; one of its characters, upon learning his wife has left him, re-enacts the " Play it, Sam " scene from the film with an imaginary pianist.

Linear perspective always works by representing the light that passes from a scene through an imaginary rectangle ( the painting ), to the viewer's eye.

The idea behind this was to release ' compilations ' of these imaginary artists, creating a sense that a healthy acid house scene existed in the UK.

An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.

The scene then shows the Amigos finding the wreckage of Andy's ship, with the servant also there tied up, being harassed, revealing that Andy's adventure was not imaginary.

His confrontation with Annie echoes the scene from the play he wrote that was performed in the first act of The Real Thing, but Annie has more to say than his imaginary wife did.

He combats various foes, half imaginary and half symbolic, conceding that he has lost all but one important thing – his panache – as he dies in Roxane's arms. The last-but-one scene.

Continuing to the car scene, Usher stops as he sees his imaginary girl again.

The scene is set in an imaginary room of unrealistically large proportions.

Her audition scene was all about strawberry jam and Sally's imaginary friend Milco.

According to some thoughts, liburna was shown in the scene of naval battle, curved on a stone tablet ( Stele di Novilara ) found near Antique Pisaurum ( Pesaro ), outlined to 5th or 6th century BC, the most possibly showing imaginary battle between Liburnian and Picenian fleets.

The scene in which Fisher is beaten up ( pp. 221 – 225 ) is imaginary.

In the version by Ernest Jones, after his flight Breuer quickly goes on a second honeymoon to Vienna with his wife Mathilda, who actually conceives a child there — in contrast to the imaginary child of Bertha Pappenheim.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

Certain this menace was only imaginary, he yet stared in fascinated horror, his hand sticky against the stock of his weapon.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

This led to the creation of an imaginary world: the African kingdom of " Angria " which was illustrated with maps and watercolour renderings.

Popper argued that totalitarianism was founded on " conspiracy theories " which drew on imaginary plots driven by paranoid scenarios predicated on tribalism, chauvinism, or racism.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

The field lines are the paths that a point positive charge would seek to make as it was forced to move within the field ; they are however an imaginary concept with no physical existence, and the field permeates all the intervening space between the lines.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

The Rader-Brenner algorithm ( 1976 ) is a Cooley – Tukey-like factorization but with purely imaginary twiddle factors, reducing multiplications at the cost of increased additions and reduced numerical stability ; it was later superseded by the split-radix variant of Cooley – Tukey ( which achieves the same multiplication count but with fewer additions and without sacrificing accuracy ).

At the time, Futurama ’ s imaginary landscape of 1960 was seen not as just a novel physical space, but as a glimpse of future time.

It was invented to isolate class-alien, socially dangerous, disruptive, suspicious, and other disloyal elements ( real and imaginary ones ) whose deeds and thoughts were not contributing to the strengthening of the so called dictatorship of the proletariat.

Gilbert wrote, " The Mikado of the opera was an imaginary monarch of a remote period and cannot by any exercise of ingenuity be taken to be a slap on an existing institution.

In his exposition, he acknowledged the existence of what are now called imaginary numbers, although he did not understand their properties ( described for the first time by his Italian contemporary Rafael Bombelli, although mathematical field theory was developed centuries later ).

One of these is the production of representational art ; this is quite in harmony with the history of the spread of the gospel, as it provides confirmation that the becoming man of the Word of God was real and not just imaginary, and as it brings us a similar benefit.

It was not until 1567 that the first portrait of Gutenberg, almost certainly an imaginary reconstruction, appeared in Heinrich Pantaleon's biography of famous Germans.

The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by Lewis Carroll in " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ".

Much later, Ernst Mach used the term Gedankenexperiment in a different way, to denote exclusively the imaginary conduct of a real experiment that would be subsequently performed as a real physical experiment by his students.

The name " Colonel Bogey " began in the later 19th century as the imaginary " standard opponent " of the Colonel Bogey scoring system, and by Edwardian times the Colonel had been adopted by the golfing world as the presiding spirit of the course.

This seems to be a later usage in the real and the imaginary timeline alike.

Likewise, the concept of ' Pataphysics –" the science of imaginary solutions "– first presented in Jarry's Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien ( Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician ) was inspirational to many later Absurdists, some of whom joined the Collège de ' pataphysique, founded in honor of Jarry in 1948 ( Ionesco, Arrabal, and Vian were given the title Transcendent Satrape of the Collège de ' pataphysique ).

She produced only one album, Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela ( circa 1969, Gulfstream and later on L ' Peg ), whose songs are mostly about an imaginary trip to the moon.

Jarry later defined it as " the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments.

For many years, Big Bird was the only character on the show who saw Mr. Snuffleupagus, but later in the 17th season ( 1985 ) he showed his friends on Sesame Street his " imaginary " friend so they believed him.

As reported years later in the July 21, 2006 Cincinnati Enquirer, " Campers must try to prove that imaginary unicorns — as a metaphor for God — don't exist.

Several weeks later, Chavez is deployed to Austria, where a group of left-wing German terrorists have taken over the schloss of a wealthy Austrian businessman, Erwin Ostermann, in order to obtain imaginary " special access codes " to the international trading markets.

He later decided to create an imaginary island based on these paintings.

Karl Rubin found a more elementary proof of the Mazur-Wiles theorem by using Kolyvagin's Euler systems, described in and, and later proved other generalizations of the main conjecture for imaginary quadratic fileds.

This means that the state at a slightly later time is related to the state at the current time by acting with the Hamiltonian operator ( multiplied by the negative imaginary unit, − i ).

Khnopff accepted this commission but destroyed the work later because the famous soprano Rose Caron was offended by the imaginary portrait of Leonora d ' Este that Khnopff had designed to adorn the cover and in which Caron believed to recognise her own face.

Kitzinger compares a roundel of Hadrian lion-hunting, which is " still rooted firmly in the tradition of late Hellenistic art ", and there is " an illusion of open, airy space in which figures move freely and with relaxed self-assurance " with the later frieze where the figures are " pressed, trapped, as it were, between two imaginary planes and so tightly packed within the frame as to lack all freedom of movement in any direction ", with " gestures that are " jerky, overemphatic and uncoordinated with the rest of the body ".

Acting as Blitzstein ’ s conscience / mentors are a vision of his deceased wife and, later, an imaginary Bertolt Brecht.

In later episodes, Crandall's seemingly imaginary superpowers and backstory seem to actually become canon.

Frankhouser and Fick later testified that, to justify their $ 700-per-week paychecks, they had invented their connections to the CIA, written memos purporting to be from CIA agents, and warned of imaginary assassination plots against the LaRouches.

A piece he authored of the time featured an imaginary barber and amateur artist, Năstase Ştirbu, who drew a direct parallel between art, literature and cutting hair — both the theme and the character were to be reused in his later works.

Nevertheless, a week later he told Amis that Brunette was helping him to write a novel, provisionally entitled Jill, about " a young man who invents an imaginary sister, and falls in love with her ".

The first book of the Bridge trilogy is set in an imaginary 2006, with the subsequent books set a few years later.

According to a ( possibly imaginary ) version of events, first recounted decades later by M. P.