1.   The story captured the public imagination.

2.   The Great Train Robbery still lives in the public imagination, and the drama still goes on.

3.   Among the social phobias she takes aim at is widespread fear about pedophiles, which she argues is far more dangerous in the public imagination than in reality.

4.   Analysts say the Alcatel case has captured the public imagination because it embodies so much of the pent-up frustration with the power elite.

5.   Big bands had become less popular as rock-and-roll took over the public imagination.

6.   A decade on, no one has come close to replacing him, either on the podium or in the public imagination.

7.   All eyes are on Farley because of its remarkable parallels to the original Pennsylvania Station, a vanished colossus that still lays a powerful claim on the public imagination.

8.   But aside from differences in style and substance, both programs have an interest in stoking the public imagination and maintaining popular and political support for manned space ventures.

9.   But in recent years there has been a remarkable shift in the public imagination.

10.   But Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, continues to grip the public imagination precisely because he was so flawed and yet behaved so nobly.