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n. - A mental picture produced by the creative side of the mind.

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  • Her thought-image came tinged with anger, a bitterness indefinably deep.
  • Her thought-image qualified, showing a smooth, spherical object that drifted at the height of a man's shoulder.
  • The slightest improper inflection, the wrong thought-image of a word, or any distraction can cause a spell to fail " or to have unintended consequences. "
  • Wislawa Szymborska's making of poems is the perfection of the word-object, of the exquisitely chiseled thought-image - allegro ma non troppo, as one of her poems is called.
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