We spent our time wandering around the narrow streets of Lavenham, happy to just imagine the past of the village and admire the buildings. (kerrylifeandloves.com)
To criticize communitarian thought simply because it deploys images drawn from a real or imagined past as criticism of the present is to dismiss arbitrarily much of modern social and political theory. (firstthings.com)
By implication, the remembered past does not have a fundamentally different status from the falsely imagined past. (religion-online.org)