mind's eye
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Also ineffective are Mort’s string of dreams and mind’s-eye fantasies, each of which are black-and-white-rendered riffs on classic films by such masters as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman and Luis Buñuel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022
It’s startling, and gratifying, to see one’s mind’s-eye images from the novel up there on the big screen courtesy of director Denis Villeneuve.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021
I’d been a beer leaguer for twenty-five years and could still contribute here and there, and even, with crafty editing, create a mind’s-eye reel of my highlights to play as I drifted off to sleep.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019
His paper and cardboard eventually evolved to carving small wooden playing pieces and figures as his mind’s-eye creation took form.
From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2017
Somehow the sight of her brought to my mind's-eye vivid recollections of my convalescent outings in Nemestronia's water-garden.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas