Part of the answer is that those earlier profits were in part a figment of the accountants’ imaginations.
Whether the satellite was a figment of Mr Kim’s imagination hardly matters. The latest promised test-launch will violate resolution 1718, which bans North Korea from all such activity.
Is this spider thing a figment of your imagination, too?
Can we return to this time of classical beauty and grace or is this ideal a figment of the modern imagination?
Those ubiquitous smartphones are not a figment of your imagination.
Alice: This is all coming from my own mind. Mad Hatter: Which would mean that I’m not real? Alice: Afraid so. You’re just a figment of my imagination. I would dream up someone who’s half mad. Mad Hatter: Yes, yes. But you would have to be half mad to dream me up. Alice: I must be then. I’ll miss you when I wake
However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he goes not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream.
What if it's just a figment of our imaginations?
From a scientific perspective we may even say that the chair that you're sitting on is just a figment of your imagination, because only the eternal is real.
But then, one day, they discovered to their horror that their supposed wealth was a figment of someone else's imagination.
