imaginary

• Postmodern game playing and the juxtaposing of the supposedly real with the imaginary, are marked aspects of Auster's style; and there are those critics who dismiss him for what is usually termed metafiction, that is, fiction engaged in a dialogue with itself, a story which calls attention to the telling of the story. —  California Literary Review
• Set on the imaginary island of Sodor, the series follows the adventures of Thomas, a cheeky little Tank Engine, and his friends, Edward, James, Gordon, Percy, Henry and Toby, plus Emily, the first female steam engine -- all under the watchful eye of Sir Topham Hatt, the manager of the Sodor Railway.
• "Hillary" was imaginary, a construction composed entirely of the negative points in her own life. —  TPMMuckraker
• Although India will suffer as everyone will from the dire outcomes of all the combined Ponzi-schemes of the Anglo-American financial imaginary, they are buffered slightly by a more old-fashioned kind of economic morality that says don't borrow too much more than you can pay off, don't have too much personal debt, don't lend to people who won't be able to return the cash. —  GreenCine Daily
• They accept that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imaginary, a bit more out there. —  HipHopDX.com >

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