imagery

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The primary source for her imagery has been the home her family maintains in central Kansas.

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  1. noun A set of mental pictures or images.
  2. noun The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
  3. noun The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.

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  • All this imagery was creating a lot of fuss. —  Alison Jackson looks at celebrity
  • And they disintegrate on the way up, so the imagery is critical for the science. —  David Gallo on life in the deep oceans
  • The primary source for her imagery has been the home her family maintains in central Kansas. —  Bethel College News
  • His technique is as interesting as his imagery, and in this piece, he has silkscreen-printed both sides of a sheet of translucent vellum, lending it an almost hallucinogenic character. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • I think, because the point of view is Nicholas Cage's character, the imagery was as his mind had to interpret it to feel like he was understanding it as he saw it. —  FlickFilosopher.com
 

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  1. from Middle English imagerie, ymagerie, from Old French (also F.) imagerie, imagery; as image + -ry.
 

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/ˈɪmədʒri/
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