Various explanations are offered for the grip that deficit reduction has on the national imagination.

No other plot of land would so fire the national imagination in the 19th century.

Today more than ever, when anything captures the national imagination this completely, it's a movie at heart long before it becomes one in fact.

There are no descriptions whatsoever to support this image, and it can only serve as an example of romanticised national imagination.

But the scene was yet another tribute to the enduring power of the 60's in the national imagination.

They have also firmly fixed the state's place in the landscape of the national imagination.

Maybe it was no accident that just as the frontier closed, the movie studios opened their doors, taking possession of the national imagination, the future.

Truly, baseball of my day had seized the national imagination, so that made for trouble right there.

But they did not yet seem to have seized the national political imagination.

"Why should these meaningless people be embedded in our national imagination?"