Word: figment
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...year. It lights the baked forms with a harsh kind of super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...
Beyond Neurosis. In ways that are neither simple nor altogether clear, Xipe, Freddy and Jesus are spliced into what perhaps is best described as Super-Hippie, an unspecified figment with the potential to lead man beyond conventional standards of good and evil, beyond neurosis, to a new freedom and a new height of truth. Up there, man-made illusions do not exist, and all opposites are fused. Life is death, good is evil, creation is destruction; the only thing that matters is what goes on inside the confines of each isolated skull...
...really be a titled Englishman or even a Portuguese entrepreneur dealing in hashish, opium and girls. He attends, or thinks he attends, or the narrator thinks he attends, a party given by Lady Ava (or Eva or Eve or Jacqueline) Bergmann at a brothel-or possibly it is a figment of everyone's imagination...
...White, Monosson and Saresky's lawyer, said that he had accompanied his clients to the Brookline station where they voluntarily gave themselves up, and that Saresky had listed her occupation as student. "She did not say that she went to Radcliffe," he said. "It must have been the figment of some reporter's imagination," he added...
...that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they are all here, sometimes twice and sometimes in flocks: "The immediate result of this dramatic departure was one of widespread enthusiasm and some...