In this separation the past is seen as a purer image of the present, shorn of vulgarity and invested with possibility.

A woman of intense obsessions, Elaine sees visions and acts them out, believing that a spiritual high comes when "you do the image pure enough."

The Fencer was nine, a year older than the rest of them, and seemed the pure image of leadership.

The purest image of human love.

Not only by creating pure images, but by altering the way one perceives other elements.

The intended effect is that the paintings will seem dematerialized, to exist as pure, disembodied images.

Previously, Sufi philosophers had called this psychic region the alam al-mithal, the world of pure images.

The Nordic Mist name is supposed to evoke, healthful pure images.

The news rather dented the group's "pure and self-righteous" image.

The results are the works for which he is best known - cool, geometrically pure images of silos, bridges, boats and so forth.