Word: figment
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...first auditors of epic poetry, in the time when it was still in a phase of growth, believed quite simply in the reality of the gods, Moore noted. "If you had suggested to one of Homer's heroes that Zeus was a figment of the human imagination, he would have concluded at once that Zeus had reft you of your wits...
During a dissertation on segregation, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell explained to the Senate that feelings of inferiority were just a figment "in the minds of Negroes who object to associating with members of their own race...
This process has failed to result in any erosion of our liberties in the last 20 years, he declared. "The whole conception of totalitarianism through drift is a figment of fantasy... The road to serfdom lies not through strong government but through impotent democratic government...
...twice-married, twice-divorced blonde built along dinner-at-Schrafft's lines, Bonnie Golightly, 39, is a practicing novelist (The Wild One) and ex-Greenwich Village bookstore owner. Far from being "a figment of Truman Capote's so-called imagination,'' Bonnie claims. Capote's colorful heroine was constructed from details about Bonnie gleaned by Capote ("a creative reporter") from "mutual friends...
...three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...