eidolon

• Bandar knew the dark eidolon was not the real Gabbris, was in fact a projected reification of those negative qualities that Bandar rejected in his own makeup. —  FSF - May2006
• If Spielberg had chosen to end the movie at this point, with David staring gloomily at his eidolon, his dream of real boyhood unattainable and his hoped-for miracle maker forever just out of reach, I would be inclined to rate AI as just another lame sci-fi movie with excellent special effects (courtesy of Stan Winston). —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
• We're all sucking dream smoke from the same delusionary pipe, jonesing on the hot drug of the New World Order, buying into its illusions of prosperity and morality, and -- most pertinently -- its specious deification of individual freedom as the eidolon of the culture. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
• But the eidolon, or likeness, became an idol; the nomen, or name, lapsed into a numen, or demon, as soon as they were drawn away from their original intention. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
• But what I saw was only the eidolon or image of said useful servants. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

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