Sentences with phrase «imagined past»

We spent our time wandering around the narrow streets of Lavenham, happy to just imagine the past of the village and admire the buildings.

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.

By implication, the remembered past does not have a fundamentally different status from the falsely imagined past.

Jay P. Greene, a senior fellow at the institute, who co-wrote the report with his colleague Greg Forster, said the findings point to a «false sense of nostalgia» that pervades discussions about schools, in which the public imagines a past with fewer out - of - school distractions, when students were easier to teach.

Imagine a past where the tragic Titanic never sank, but instead flew across the Atlantic Ocean.

The show latches onto real blackness, but also a fully imagined past.

Marc Hundley's fabricated advertisements take the forms of posters, postcards, flags, and t - shirts that promote poetic moments from a partly imagined past.

Fragments of poetic language cohere with her visual iconography to produce nonlinear narratives of «unforeseen desire and untimely loss,» offering audiences untold tales from both collectively imagined pasts and distant futures.

Stroll to the harbourside for a morning coffee and baklava in an old carob warehouse café, or climb the walls of Kyrenia Castle to imagine the past of Invaders!

He volunteers the way he imagines past conversations went between execs in Germany: «American football?

In «The Synthetic A Priori,» Graber demonstrates her skill in moving the reader from a present event to an imagined past to larger themes and focusing attention on the specific elements she wants to represent:

And if it is not true, which other portions are also authored by someone «imagining the past to the best of their knowledge»?

We all imagine the past to the best of our knowledge, the biblical authors included.

If thinkers as diverse as Rousseau, Paine, and Tonnies are all to be understood as Utopian insofar as they criticize the present from the standpoint of a real or imagined past, then utopianism is an honored mode of cultural criticism.

This belief in national rebirth also opposes tradition; which attempts to return to an imagined past, and should not be confused with fascist veneration of their culture.

But unlike Morgan's jaunt through an imagined past, there are other characters too.

«Ethnic groups in the past and present create an «imagined past» of the longtime and «pure» origins of their group,» Maeir says.

The Shape of Water leads a nominations list that offers up exotic fantasy and imagined past, but is missing something truly ferocious and polarising

Idly attending a lecture on reincarnation one afternoon, they encounter the enigmatic Dean Spanley (Sam Neill), whose own account of his imagined past life as a dog strikes an unexpected emotional chord with both father and son.

The novel follows a character who, after his father is killed, makes his way to Washington, D.C. Mengestu drew on family history to imagine the past of his main character.

Meanwhile Jed Perl demands a return to an imagined past, which unfortunately might happen to have led to the present.

This difficult age looks to an imagined past for shortcuts; think of the American elections.

The included artworks manifest as artifacts of another present — amalgamations of both real and imagined pasts — to express the slippage between fact and fiction, and the past, present, and future.

In particular, people use so - called «mirror neurons» to help interpret what others are experiencing, to help remember their own experiences, and to help predict or imagine the past or future.