Visual imagination

Usage examples of mind's eye.

Iantine had only had time enough to do an outline but the details - despite all the other sketches he had made that day - were vivid in his mind's eye, and he had to get every one down on paper or he would feel he had betrayed them.

I moved the ice to another sore spot in my mouth, my mind's eye witnessing the beginnings of a new galaxy.

I felt myself a second Adam wending my lonely way through the childhood of a world, searching for my Eve, and at the thought there rose before my mind's eye the exquisite outlines of a perfect face surmounted by a loose pile of wondrous, raven hair.

Like the rich wonders of the robe she wore, her very barbarism, of which now I saw but the better side, drew and dazzled my mind's eye, giving her woman's tenderness some new quality, sombre and strange, an eastern richness which is lacking in our well schooled English women, that at one and the same stroke touched both the imagination and the senses, and through them enthralled the heart.

It was even more unnerving to see it played out before the mind's eye.

My mind's eye singled out those who were sealed to slaughter, and there rushed in upon my heart a great sense of the mystery of human life, and an overwhelming sorrow at its futility and sadness.

All the gentlemen in Frankfurt with tall black hats on their heads, and scorn and mockery in their faces rose up before his mind's eye, and he threw himself with energy on the Y, not letting it go till at last he knew it so thoroughly that he could see what it was like even when he shut his eyes.

McCoy's face appeared in his mind's eye, as clearly as if the doctor had been standing before him.

Center had filled his mind's eye with images of what the trebuchet could accomplish, and precise step-by-step instructions in making it.

Vermeer's famous Girl in a Blue Turban is not posed, but caught in an instant in the mind's eye.