leap of imagination
imaginative leap

But the next instant a leap of imagination told her what was about to happen.

Or maybe I was wrong all along, she thought: a startling leap of imagination for her.

To betray one's country was too great a leap of imagination for him.

It did not take a great leap of imagination either to picture what would happen when that clash came.

In all the work here, the human body is a tonic note for one after another leap of imagination.

I explain what I'm doing, and you provide the leap of imagination that sends us to the next step.

Luckily, many scientists have started to make the leaps of imagination required to answer these questions.

I should like us to make a leap of imagination and imagine that we were about to develop a road transport system today.

Actually, none of this takes a great leap of imagination.

One hardly doubts such a leap of imagination before two people meet, though generally not after they have had a bad time.

"He makes big leaps of imagination, sometimes too far, but, still, it's not a bad quality for an analyst to have."

That requires a leap of imagination, or at least faith."

Hard to make the full leap of imagination, however."

The leap of imagination that this person took was completely overwhelming to me."

It takes no great leap of imagination to see how sensitive policing could prevent terrorism.

"You sure like making leaps of imagination," Wills observed tersely.

Nor are its leaps of imagination as radical.

Choosing Shakespeare's elusive play took a leap of imagination.

The leap of imagination required to accept the camp's existence and the systematic killing there was large.

It didn't take a big leap of imagination to conceive a medium-size show based on them.

It required a vast leap of imagination, however, to picture them enjoying such domestic happiness together.

This design took a leap of imagination, a spark of whimsy.

Was it such a leap of imagination to think of them saving the remaining islanders?

Or is this in fact a triumphant reclaiming of terrain through a leap of imagination?

It certainly requires more leaps of imagination.

These are among the imaginative leaps in this collection of 28 stories and one poem.

"The ability to make an imaginative leap is taken for granted.

But he was not equipped to make the kind of imaginative leap that Harold might have done.

Doing history does require an imaginative leap, and contact with real evidence from the past can often assist in this process.

It doesn't take too huge an imaginative leap to see similar forces at play in Chinese political life today.

Nearly everyone who commented on Dolly made the imaginative leap to human cloning.

Feeling was not opposed to human reason but an imaginative leap that takes us beyond the particular to an apprehension of the whole.

In a way, it's not so much a cognitive or imaginative leap anymore as it is a political one."

Through an amazing imaginative leap, she enters into their heads and lets us see the world as they do.

At the same time, the play is not the imaginative leap that it is intended to be.

Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian.

Instead, each novel pairing of sound and meaning involves an imaginative leap.

Intuition, imaginative leaps - all such things he saw as threatening to the orderly march of science.

Not particularly astounding in terms of imaginative leap, but this image haunts me constantly, which probably makes it good.

With an imaginative leap, they even acquire personalities.

Her ability to connect works like his and hers, to make wild imaginative leaps, has had a liberating effect on younger artists.

Martin also made the imaginative leap into the life of a neurasthenic 28-year-old woman, quite a distance from his celebrity persona.

These tensions stimulate imaginative leaps into the triple thought: the work of art that functions as a moral guide.

I think readers are willing to take imaginative leaps if there's a kind of redemptive truth waiting at the other end."

"One of the things that appeals to me is that you can take an audience on a huge imaginative leap.

So I thought it would be enjoyable to make a true imaginative leap, conjuring up life far beyond the chemical avenues we know.

They are incapable of such imaginative leaps.

Fine; but how had she made the imaginative leap that the doctor was Dhar's creator?

Onscreen and on the page, the point is not to nitpick but to probe character, sometimes taking imaginative leaps to get there.

There is little or no room for a personal directorial touch or the kind of imaginative leap that can make a performance memorable.