What is "imagery"

Usage examples of "imagery".

The reason was simple: Radio is the most visual medium available to advertisers since radio commercials have the best opportunity to create vivid imagery in the minds of the consumer.

Very few depict scenes of John being beheaded, or feature his severed head, for it is only in those places where he is particularly venerated that such imagery is deemed appropriate.

It was tempting to see a connection between this imagery and the Andean traditions that spoke of the emergence of the civilizer god Viracocha from the waters of Lake Titicaca after an earth-destroying flood.

No doubt they would make use of powerful and easily recognizable symbols to strengthen and express this sense of common purpose: the men might wear distinctive beards, for example, or shave their heads, and certain archetypal imagery like the cross and the serpent and the dog might be used to link the members of the cult together as they set out on their civilizing missions to relight the lamps of knowledge around the world.

In the early years of this century there was much interest in eidetic imagery and memory - more than 200 studies on it had been published before 1935, although subsequently it has very much dropped out of the mainstream of psychological research.

And thus the elaboration of the imagery of ghosts and a ghostly realm was not the precursor, but the result of a belief in another life.

Every object that presented itself was enrobed in that sublime simplicity which characterizes these charming regions, whose imagery is at once lofty and impressive, lilling the mind that contemplates it with the most exquisite emotions.

This has given a tinge of picturesque and descriptive imagery to the introductory Epodes which depicture these scenes, and some of the majestic feelings permanently connected with the scene of this animating event.

Habit had almost conferred upon her the power of spontaneous poesy, and while she pressed his forehead to her bosom, she warbled forth a strain airy and exuberant in numbers, tender and exstatic in its imagery.

Lawrence used his optronic membranes to receive the imagery, with Prime giving him a perspective from the front of the compression drive section.

It is in the midst of this poetic imagery of passing through the door into God that we find ourselves in the living essence of Christian faith.

In the process, as you re-live times of decision-making or being forced to go a certain direction, try using Twilight Imagery to explore the road untaken, i.

It has deep significance for those who have lived through social chaos, uprootedness, irrational torture, and this accounts for the pessimism and nightmarish imagery that pervade much Existentialist writing.

Human hearts to me shall be Viewless violets in the grass, And as I pass, Odours and sweet imagery Will wait on mine and gladden me!

Infrared imagery showed hot buildings and cold corpses and the motion of equally cold humped and headless creatures who were doing the killing.