This tendency is peculiarly marked, of course, in artists possessing the "diffluent" type of imagination, and ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
The bone had not apparently been sufficiently depressed to exert continuous pressure, but the cord was diffluent and actually destroyed over an area corresponding with the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh dorsal segments. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)
It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged. ❋ Various (N/A)
Schizomycetes, the various elements being glued together, as it were, by their enormously swollen and diffluent cell-walls becoming contiguous. ❋ Various (N/A)
At the end of some five weeks, the common duration of life, the structure of the cord was represented by a semi-diffluent yellowish material, the consistence of which was so deficient in firmness as to allow the partial collapse of the membranes covering the affected portion, so as to exhibit a definite narrowing when the whole was held up (see fig. 79). ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)
D, E, H. Colonies of _Myconostoc_ enveloped in diffluent matrix. ❋ Various (N/A)
The spinal cord was practically gone between the levels of the fourth and seventh dorsal vertebræ, and diffluent from myelitis up to the third cervical. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)
There is of course a typical difference between the "plastic" imagination, dealing with clear images, objective relations, and seen at its best in the arts of form like sculpture and architecture, and that "diffluent" imagination which prefers vaguely outlined images, which is markedly subjective and emotional, and of which modern music like Debussy's is a good example. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
But the sense of the infinite fusibility and change in the objective world is deeper than that revealed in any one type of diffluent imagination. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
The music of “Sleep On!” is very sweet, and I have never seen heroic verse in which the rhyme was less obtrusive or the rhythm more diffluent. ❋ Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 (1896)
= Gills = dissolving into a gelatinous or powdery condition, not diffluent as in ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
= Gills = usually free, pileus deeply plicate so that the gills are split where they are attached to the pileus, pileus membranaceous, very tender but not diffluent. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
Here we come away from the vague forms; the diffluent imagination becomes substantial and asserts itself through its permanence. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
Let us rapidly pass over some very frequent, very well-known manifestations of the diffluent imagination -- those obliterated forms in which it does not reach complete development and cannot give the full measure of its power. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
By the nature of its favorite images, by its preference for vague associations and uncertain relations, it presents all the characteristics of diffluent imagination; but the latter covers a much broader field: it is the genus of which the other is a species. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
We shall study at first two general forms of the creative imagination -- the plastic and the diffluent -- and later, special forms, determined by their content and subject. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
The diffluent imagination is another general form, but one that is completely opposed to the foregoing. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
We shall see that its opposite, diffluent imagination, is that which depends least upon that factor, or is most free from it. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
Here, for example, are two kinds seemingly belonging to the diffluent imagination which, however, do not permit it to completely include them. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
Analysis, indeed, discovers a certain class of ill-understood images, which I call emotional abstractions, and which are the proper material for the diffluent imagination. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
