Contrived idea

Usage examples of figment.

He knew that this creature, though imperfect, though a mere cerature, a mere figment of his own creative power, was yet in a manner more real than himself.

Asked what this grim figment meant, Henry explained that the great eagle was himself, and the eaglets were his four sons.

On the very last page, in a transcendent moment in the history of wishful figments, the Escapist had captured Adolf Hitler and dragged him before a world tribunal.

As Hiro pulls it from her hand, the hypercard changes from a jittery two-dimensional figment into a realistic, cream-colored, finely textured piece of stationery.

He might be a poor, useless creature when menaced by the figments of his own fancy.

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES But O, the intolerable antilogy Of making figments feel!

For the duration of the lightning barrage, as I faced my ghostly reflection, I had a flash of solipsistic fear, which sprang from weariness and sadness, the feeling that only I really existed, that I encompassed all creation, and that everything and everyone else was a figment of my imagination.

What if Earth was a figment of Avernian imagination, the god Avernus otherwise lacked?

The shadow of the noose hovered above him, and in that dark house lay John Branner, with his butchered head--like the figments of a dream these facts spun and eddied in his brain until all merged in a gray twilight as sleep came uninvited to his weary soul.

Yet whether the Whistler were real, or some bizarre figment of his imagination, his words were disturbingly prophetic.

She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her gray eyes at ghosts, figments, recollections, and dust caught in oblique sunbeams, her arms streaked and pocked like relief maps of vast planets, her massive calves stuffed like forcemeat into lung-colored support hose.

Thus far we have been meeting those who, on the evidence of thrust and resistance, identify body with real being and find assurance of truth in the phantasms that reach us through the senses, those, in a word, who, like dreamers, take for actualities the figments of their sleeping vision.

It was equally possible that all the other Hazels were just figments of her imagination, somehow given life and substance by her Maze power.

Caldra and Amor begin to seem just a little unreal, like figments of a dream.

Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain?