But my imagination simply fails me when I try to picture a future beyond my husband's death.

For such novel sensations, new words were wanted; and my imagination failed to supply them.

Ryan racked his brain to think of what that fact might be, but both reason and imagination failed him.

I tried to feel what it must have been like to be pregnant at twelve, but my imagination failed.

Yet her lively imagination failed altogether to anticipate the real catastrophe.

He tried to think of some way to prolong the conversation, but his imagination failed him.

That was it, though; there hadn't been any other luck, and, so far, his imagination had failed him.

Even my excellent imagination failed to provide an answer.

When imagination fails, the result is often bathos and slack writing.

But by the time man reaches that point where my imagination fails, he will have the data to push the point far into the future.