Other Tolstaya characters fantasize not about imaginary relationships, but about lost loves from their past.

He has concocted this entire imaginary relationship that he and I have had.

It was always an imaginary relationship.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

An imaginary relationship to a real situation?

Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.

An imaginary relationship to a real situation. . . . "The brain is a funny animal," he muttered.

'Social provisions of real and imaginary relationships in early childhood.'

Isabella Karzden, a laid-back waitress, with whom Chris had an imaginary relationship.

Yet, for all this, it seems that the "imaginary relationship" of biographer and subject has not been established in the same depth on this occasion.