1.   And an enduring place in the national imagination.

2.   But the International Space Station, which will be four times the size of the Mir, could never capture the national imagination the way the Mir did.

3.   But the Tonys are a New York in-thing that have failed throughout their long history to capture the national imagination.

4.   California occupies a special, overdeveloped place in the national imagination.

5.   In an age when America is prosperous and at peace, neither candidates nor issues have captured the national imagination.

6.   Reagan, aided by his coterie of legendary spin doctors, gripped the national imagination and has never let go.

7.   Such are the contradictions that keep this case alive in the national imagination.

8.   The image of a blood-sucking beast has caught national imagination so fiercely that Guadalupe Loaeza, a high-society columnist, joined the act.

9.   This being America, it may take all of a month for Afghanistan to reoccupy its old place in the national imagination.

10.   Those Canyon-born energies, in turn, have determined the enormous place that the Canyon claims in the national imagination as a sublime wonder and geological showplace.