For persons from 'imagistic' countries, an important source of stress is the assimilation and operation of advanced symbolic models. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
I was interested in that difference -- that kind of imagistic, expressionistic art happening here that was different from the mainstream in New. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
He wrote a very nice, imagistic op-ed in today's T-P. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Virtually all the poems in the collection are imagistic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'] Reference
Her poetry, though imagistic in expression, is primarily a poetry of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 12] Reference
I must say, that's quite the imagistic trifecta to present to black New Orleanians. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
While it may not have the star power or imagistic innovativeness of, say, Moulin Rouge!. From Wordnik.com. [She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)] Reference
And Mary Ellen Mark, though now the connection--to Mann--is generational, not imagistic. From Wordnik.com. [Justine Kurland] Reference
Intensely sensory and imagistic, this science fiction piece seems to be carried by style. From Wordnik.com. [A tale of 9 novellas – Rachel Swirsky’s Nebula reading, 2009] Reference
Not exactly surprising in its associations, but alliterative and imagistic, an ode to small. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
His latest poems are densely imagistic, dream-like, and full of praise for the natural world. From Wordnik.com. [September « 2007 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
It proves the utter hopelessness of all of our analytical tools in a poetically imagistic way. From Wordnik.com. [[revised again] On Negative Reviews/Art World People are People Too (with addendum)] Reference
Now on to the rest of the beautifully written, lyrical, dense, deeply imagistic, baffling book!. From Wordnik.com. [Open Book Thread] Reference
The only difference between the two is in the fidelity of the imagistic impression to its cause. From Wordnik.com. [Reid on Memory and Personal Identity] Reference
Some argue, on the contrary, that thought (not just imagistic, but conceptual thought) has phenomenal character too. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness and Intentionality] Reference
They were largely spatial and imagistic, of the kind where a single picture or mental image is worth a thousand words. From Wordnik.com. [Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture] Reference
His hauntingly imagistic poems are products of his deconstruction of the nature of perception in a fast-changing world. From Wordnik.com. [Troubaganger's Wayang Kata] Reference
For example, to see a butterfly in the garden, we have to project a nontrivial amount of imagistic structure onto a scene. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff - Unconscious Imaginitive Perception] Reference
All the collected pieces of our imagistic memory seem sometimes to be trivial knickknacks when seen against the roaring of passing time. From Wordnik.com. ["Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock] Reference
Wordsworth's lyrics lack the imagistic riddle-structure they have learned to expect in written poems; by contrast, they appear sentimental and didactic. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)] Reference
They give us some insight into the coming book, which promises to be accessible and beautifully imagistic, as in these excerpts from "A Small Rat in Prison". From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: Liu Xiaobo's Poetry To Be Published In English] Reference
When Kevin (Godley) and Lol (Creme) came to me with the idea, I got very excited because I realised that they really understood the imagistic approach I wanted. From Wordnik.com. [Wrapped Around Your Finger, 7''] Reference
He says that television has reduced some preaching to "sound-bytes, imagistic bursts and episodic narratives," but this may only whet the appetite for live speech. From Wordnik.com. [Heard Any Good Sermons Lately?] Reference
Along with these imagistic and thematic influences, the drawing, as described by Haydon, significantly depicts a moment of tension between paganism and Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [The Timeless in Its Time: Engaging Students in a Close-reading and Discussion of the Historical Contexts of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
In the spirit of cataloguing phenomena, I should note that the spectacular rise of Internet pornography involves imagistic thinking, just as television and movies do. From Wordnik.com. [How and Why Communication Media That Accentuate Sound Helped Engender Conservative Currents in the U.S. and Elsewhere] Reference
How the metaphoric and imagistic opulence of lines like “Her mouth a doily-gagged coal hole,” lights up the imagination more than it elucidates any external reality. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Hutchinson on Jeramy Dodds] Reference
But while such representations are involved in imagistic experiences, such as visualization and dreams, they are also capable of bearing content in the absence of such experience. From Wordnik.com. [Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy] Reference
The utterance has both an imagistic side and a linguistic side. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Personally, I am happy to contemplate accomplished abstract art as imagistic play. From Wordnik.com. [Chattanooga Pulse] Reference
It does pull together all the lyrical and imagistic threads, with images of mirrors, illusions. From Wordnik.com. [Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis] Reference
It is a dense and floridly imagistic piece into which the cast of six actresses pour their all. From Wordnik.com. Reference
If Howe's poems are expansive and discursive, the compacted, imagistic poems in Fady Joudah's book. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
When I saw that, I started to look around the store and I wondered about other imagistic rhymes I could find. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
"The Jewel Stairs 'Grievance" shows how perfectly Li Po met Pound's modernist criteria of directness and imagistic precision. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Lepage has produced beautiful, highly imagistic but musically and dramatically respectful productions at BAM including Bartok's. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
There is no real illumination of 'meaning' for the extended syllables; in fact, the imagistic weave becomes more and more enigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis] Reference
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