10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERIMAGINATIVE»
Discover the use of
overimaginative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
overimaginative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I went in and told my parents, but they just thought I was being overimaginative. I
guess I am overimaginative.” Mariette was amused and embarrassed by this self-
awareness. “But I knew what I had seen, and I kept going back to the bush.
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Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
And while Amis's novel can be, and has been, enjoyed by men and women,
teenagers and adults, Dodie Smith's is very much a book for overimaginative girls
. I am not the only overimaginative girl who loved both these books at once.
... ERUPTION. however, does not rest with the correspondent ; it rests with those
at home who 'cook up' cable despatches, and with those living in the islands
whose nerves are gone and who are thereby in an overimaginative frame of mind
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This malediction, however, was revealed to have been a fabrication, invented by
an overimaginative reporter trying to spice up his story. Apart from the unfortunate
victim of the mosquito bite, most of the expedition's team members went on to ...
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Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast
66 The reassuring idea that sane and right-thinking men had been victimized by
superstitious women, overimaginative children, and credulous peasants provided
convenient cover for male embarrassment. the useful fiction of the temporary ...
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Preaching the New and the Now
Protestants might like to claim that the Reformers, Luther and Calvin, somewhat
suspicious with regard to overimaginative biblical interpretation, dropped the
practice of allegorizing altogether. In fact, Luther did rail against allegory, calling
it ...
Jerrymanderingwas the word I concocted for Jerry's overimaginative, albeit at
times plausible, theories. However, with adequate firsthand experience to
restrain my skepticism, I was inclined to consider his allegation. Rolling the empty
beer ...
On the other hand, it was carefully noted that Homer referred to Laërtes wearing
gloves while gardening, which amounts to an essentially faithful but slightly
overimaginative gloss on the Odyssey, 24:226–31. Varro thought that olives
gathered ...
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Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott ...
Austin, Texas October 8, 1941 Dear Dobie: Since reading your praying mantis
article I have done some diligent research which inclines me to believe that you
have something besides folklore or an overimaginative correspondent. Aforesaid
...
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J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...
But the historical significance of the event is in a sense being “turned,” as James
says, but not too much, an impulse he ascribes pejoratively to the
overimaginative artist. Neither are these “bare facts” being simply related through
a transparent ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERIMAGINATIVE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
overimaginative is used in the context of the following news items.
Sherlock Reinvents Himself as 'Mr. Holmes'
... pipe-smoking figure now ingrained in the public consciousness was the work of overimaginative dime-novel illustrators. Sherlock Holmes, we ... «AARP News, Jul 15»
Welcome to the world's newest country
The power of the internet means that micro-nations no longer just exist in the overimaginative minds of their creators; many enjoy global ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
Disturbing Images of Fetuses Reveal the Horrific Toll of Smoking …
Many cautioned against overimaginative interpretations of fetal movements. Dr. Jennifer Niebyl, formerly of the John Hopkins School of ... «Mic, Mar 15»
New Paltz High School readies new production of Broadway …
... Big Fish the musical takes place in Alabama in the 20th century and revolves around the relationship between an overimaginative man with ... «New Paltz Times, Mar 15»
The Babadook: Reading a Storybook Unleashes a Monster
Amelia reads the book with her troubled and overimaginative boy, ignoring the timeworn horror-movie warning about chanting the name of the ... «Seattle Weekly, Dec 14»
Book Excerpt: 'The Miniaturist,' by Jessie Burton
Her mother calls her overimaginative, Nella-in-the-Clouds. The inert shoes lie in anticlimax and Nella simply feels a fool. Outside, two women ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 14»
Shaw Fest's 'The Sea' presents tragedy and comedy on an …
Reid's Ms. Rafi tosses out an endless fusillade of searing little insults – “You always were overimaginative, for a draper,” she tells Hatch ... «Buffalo News, Jul 14»
Making shapes square up
All might have gone to plan, from his point of view, had he not been of an overimaginative and somewhat paranoid temperament. Imagining all ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 14»
Quidditch: A History
Though the idea of publicly prancing around with a broom between one's legs at first only appealed to overimaginative Potter fanatics, more ... «CU Columbia Spectator, Nov 13»
Georgia's billionaire PM wants to give up office, but will he relinquish …
... the country elected a character who seemed to have strolled out of a tale penned by an overimaginative novelist. A reclusive oligarch who ... «The Guardian, Oct 13»