Word: figment
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...emerges as an exception to the UN’s heartlessness: Colonel Oliver, the hard-drinking, hard-working Canadian commander of the undermanned international peacekeeping force. The only problem is that Oliver’s character—brilliantly portrayed by Nick Nolte—is in fact a figment of director Terry George’s imagination...
...normal and recognizable woman suddenly went to war with her world, trapped by memories that conflicted with what the people she trusted would have her believe, fighting for the truth as she felt it in her core, struggling to prove that her son was more than just a figment of post-miscarriage depression? This, the trailer for The Forgotten, splashed across the screen to intrigue and thrill me as I waited to be entertained by the indie music and muted palette of Garden State last month. That scene where the protagonist storms into Ash’s study and pulls...
Well, not exactly. Unfortunately, this noble action was no more than the figment of an imagination waxing pathetic. In reality, President Bush, despite repeated appeals from the Department of Education, simply could not be convinced to attend. A similar fate had arisen the previous year, when I was a scholar: Bush found time to meet with NCAA athletes in the White House just days before he was due to meet the Presidential Scholars, but when the scholars’ moment for recognition came, he never showed...
...Associate Editor Larry P. Hotchkiss ’04 is afraid that the end of his FM career may mean that he might actually have to start his thesis. Don’t worry Larry, you never have to start your thesis. Your thesis is just a figment of your imagination—a diabolical ruse concocted by your psychoanalyst to distract you from the real source of all your problems: your Oedipal complex. Go take a nice long nap and it will all be better when you get up. (Sadistic laughter...
Even as she is drawn into Chubb's beguilements, Wode-Douglass is a brittle, amusing narrator. But eventually she's just the audience for Chubb's less gripping story of his daughter's kidnapping by McCorkle, the figment with a beating heart. With this, the book seems to move from novel to fable, a world in which poems and children all have uncertain parentage. Even so, decoding that fable is another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world...