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...movie released. My husband invented his characters. As Walter said, he gave the character of pool player Felson attributes fairly common to any pool player: "Some charm, some nerve and a vast supply of ignorance concerning matters unrelated to pool." Other than that, Fast Eddie Felson was a figment of Walter's imagination. ELEANORA TEVIS New York City
Lauren immediately understands this person as real, not a figment of her grief. Her guest's stunted appearance reminds her of her onetime high school science teacher, and so she names him Mr. Tuttle. And her initial curiosity about his random utterances surges when she realizes that Mr. Tuttle sometimes uses, in a close approximation of her voice, words she had spoken to Rey and then, in his inflections, Rey's words back to her, including exchanges from their last breakfast together...
This helps underscore why the notion that debtors in bankruptcy court are sitting on many billions of dollars that they could turn over to their creditors is a figment of the imagination of lenders and lawmakers. Consider...
...vigorously confronted with his long record of racism at his every appearance to stop him from turning the hateful rhetoric on and off to suit his purposes. Confronting hate-mongers is not the sole province of the left, accepted wisdom in Cambridge notwithstanding. Buchanan's bigotry is not a figment in the imagination of liberals: His anti-Semitic ranting has been denounced by leading conservatives like William Buckley and Norman Podhoretz...
...name is Phillip Sachs, and I am a figment of Baratunde's imagination. A 1997 graduate of Harvard College, I am now in my second year as an analyst for the international global strategy global management global consulting firm McBane and Company...