Since major novelists are now treated as celebrities whose biographies are of more interest than their purely imaginative creations, it's only natural that they have learned to capitalize on the fascination.

There was some debate at the time about the function of literature, that is, whether or not works of fiction should be representative of life, or more purely imaginative (i.e. natural vs. romantic).

His work is purely imaginative - often depicting, in fine detail, a romantic mythological world of idealised beauty, suffused in light, and reminiscent of the 17th-century painter Claude Lorraine.

One involved purely imaginative painterly devices derived from Abstract Expressionism; the other prompted him to explore technological means of generating abstract imagery.

After his death, as Shakespeare's reputation grew, artists created portraits and narrative paintings depicting him, most of which were based on earlier images, but some of which were purely imaginative.

Irrationality is thus a means of freeing the mind toward purely imaginative solutions, to break out of historic patterns of dependence into new patterns that allow one to move on.

In addition to these, his poems may be divided into two classes,--the purely imaginative, and those which sprang from the emotions of his heart.

Perhaps she was doing no more- he had good hope that she was doing no more-than responding in a purely imaginative fashion to this new art of Story or Poetry.

Neither Cecilia's amusement nor Ilya's suave assurances that his fiction is purely imaginative can console Ben.

He relishes both admitting he has never written anything as "purely imaginative" as his last children's tale Noah Barleywater Runs Away.