Word: figment
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Bradley is certainly more than a figment of a good press agent. He connected on 11 of 22 shots; his passing and ball-handling were fantastic. In fact, they're probably too good--Tiger Coach Bill van Breda Kolff must wish that Bradley would shoot more and feed off less to his lacklustre teammates...
...with me," Frost exhorted Untermeyer, who obligingly struck out at old poetic practice by using Frost as an example of how things should be done. "There are times," Frost was generous to admit, "when I think I am merely the figment of Louis' imagination." But these early letters are notable mainly for Frost's continual cross references to his fellow writers-all of whom he took for enemies and deadly rivals...
Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...
...then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows, does not exist...
...first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo and Man and His Gods that organized religion is a figment of man's fearful myths; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...