The phrase
"public imagination" refers to the collective thoughts, ideas, and images that the general population holds or imagines about a certain topic, event, or concept.
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This multiple - stress approach to the bee dilemma doesn't
grab public imagination the way a classic mystery villain does.
It is also hugely important, because the information gap that results from soft - pedaling on the biggest story of our age means the goals of the Paris Agreement are not yet as firmly entrenched in the political, corporate and
public imagination as they should be.
«In some ways, in the sort of
public imagination of Matisse, we tend to forget how important sculpture is to him.»
This show focuses on a work of exceptional historical importance: an intricately decorated and inscribed wood panel believed to come from the famous Ben Ezra synagogue of Old Cairo (Fostat), Egypt, which has
captivated public imagination for over a century.
Using a research - based approach, Allied Works distills the elemental principles that drive each of their projects and transform these into material, shape, and structure — architectural designs that
engage public imagination and amplify a city's cultural legacy.
Her mature landscape work, having struck deep roots in painting tradition,
shaped public imagination of the Land of Enchantment more effectively than any tourist bureau.
Lewis's experimental work occupies an important place in the
Canadian public imagination not only because it has used iconic locations as subjects and backdrops, but also because it has strongly influenced a younger generation of artists.
On the eve of his second federal budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doesn't loom large in
the public imagination.
We're in the middle of an era where small businesses are valued over large ones in politics, popular culture, and in
the public imagination.
«These claims are made with little or no evidentiary support, yet they have captured
the public imagination.»
However, Musk's own very public ambitions to not only reach Mars, but to colonize the Red Planet, seem to have linked the celebrity billionaire's name with the idea of Mars exploration in
the public imagination.
Inexpensive, small scale and non-traditional marketing tactics can be extremely effective ways of promoting your brand if the idea catches
the public imagination and goes viral.
research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in
the public imagination.
From time to time, a most unlikely book strikes
the public imagination and becomes something of a best seller.
The understandable paranoia that consequently gripped
the public imagination — an enemy that could shut down Congress!
It seems that Hollywood has made so many comic book / super hero movies in the last two decades or so that it has had a deleterious effect on
the public imagination.
It is possible that a new momentum may be found through the conception of a new type of broadcasting which captures
the public imagination as Oral Roberts did in 1970, or through the emergence of new personalities.
In recent years, Thomas and other alternative scriptures (and books about them) have captured
the public imagination and the interest of members of mainline churches.
FLANNERY: I don't think he cares that much, either, but it's still bizarre to consider how far he's risen in
the public imagination.
Unfortunately, parents whose main offense was poverty, as opposed to abuse or actual neglect, get lumped in with the crack whores in
the public imagination.
With Nuttall, the opportunity exists for Labour to define him in
the public imagination before he has the chance to define himself.
A major reason Ed Miliband's reform capitalism failed to capture
the public imagination is that he never told a convincing story about the possibility of change.
Those opposing the cuts, some of which are rightly lamented, should stop blaming their failure to capture
the public imagination on the rioters and the media and simply tell us what the alternative they want actually is.
His crime maps really caught
the public imagination this week with five million hits an hour at one stage.
Most of all it is designed to humanise leaders in
the public imagination.
«In the end what candidates have to do is capture
the public imagination, have something interesting to say, and get local media attention.
It's a narrative which has held powerful sway in
the public imagination.
Shah caught
the public imagination by writing about her difficult personal life.
The announcement took place on a small stage that had been erected in City Hall Park in Downtown Manhattan, directly behind the old Tweed Courthouse, which now houses the city's Department of Education but remains, in
the public imagination anyway, a monument to that enduring icon of government corruption, Boss Tweed, who embezzled a fortune from the city under the cover of the building's construction.
«Not being the most sexy subject it will actually be difficult to set
the public imagination alight,» he says.
We need a politics free to espouse bolder policies that seize
the public imagination.
It's one of those issues that fascinates politicos but fails to fire
the public imagination.
That same dedication to revealing eye - catching and gut - wrenching details of human misbehaviour would propel the paper to a central place in Britain's
public imagination, and eventually over the cliff - edge to destruction.
Clegg is more strongly opposed, fearing that a vote would not capture
the public imagination and, as with last year's vote on electoral reform, could be lost.
The Comte de Buffon's lively writing transformed our ideas of Earth's fauna and fired
the public imagination.
Subtle cosmic vibrations kicked up by swirling black holes have captured
the public imagination — and the minds of the physics Nobel Prize committee members, too.
Few questions have captured
the public imagination more than this.
The idea that sadistic childhood abuse could lead to multiple personality disorder has seized
the public imagination, but could it be a diagnostic fad?
Media - friendly Nobel laureates peeling layers of graphene from bulk graphite with sticky tape may capture
the public imagination, but as a manufacturing process the technique is somewhat lacking.
Someone complained, possibly miffed that photos of beleaguered polar bears then captured
the public imagination.
Coming at a time of technological optimism when Americans were enamored of outer space and kitchen appliances alike, an era some were calling the Biological Revolution, ultrasound captured
the public imagination.
This was in keeping with the Victorian ethos of divinely created perfection, and when Bentley's photos appeared in magazines, they caught
the public imagination.
Experiments like Maharaj's operate on the fringes of science, yet they have captured
the public imagination.
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