Word: figment
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...about Catherine Oxenberg every now and then, but she disappeared from the spotlight back in the fall of 1979 once classes got serious. I, for one, have enjoyed the old pangs stirred up by Catherine's reemergence, not to mention the news that she was neither murdered nor the figment of someone's imagination...
...then provide a self-deprecatory definition of the word, "An addition of comparatively small importance, especially to a literary effort or discourse"? Does that mean readers seeking substantial fare should look elsewhere? Other queries quickly arise. Is this Erato who breaks into Miles' story real or a figment of his imagination? Wait a minute. She has always been a myth (has she not?), and what could possibly be called real in a made-up story that takes place entirely in a gray area suspiciously resembling a brain...
...have been operating along the border with Honduras. Since July 4, he told his audience of 30,000, the guerrillas had staged more than 18 attacks on Nicaraguan territory and killed more than 50 government troops. Ortega punctuated his statistics with repeated shouts that "this is not a figment of our imagination...
...about Catherine Oxenberg every now and then, but she disappeared from the spotlight back in the fall of 1979 once classes got serious. I, for one, have enjoyed the old pangs stirred up by Catherine's reemergence, not to mention the news that she was neither murdered nor the figment of someone's imagination...
...Hugh Sidey thinks Nancy's problems are "more media figment than real." Nancy Reagan, with her emphasis on warm elegance in this period of hardship for most of the country, offends me mightily. I am not irritated by what has been published about her; I am annoyed by what she does...