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He is also embodied by an overimaginative child, still smarting from his father's death and sending malign thoughts out into the ether.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2010

His world was like the nursery of an overimaginative child to whom every fleeting shadow on the wall is a dragon or a ghost.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Financial Expert traces the rise & fall of Margayya, a proud, overimaginative moneylender who keeps bank each day under a banyan tree.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Holmes, Geological Survey geologist W J. McGee believed it was his duty to protect the temple of Science from profanation by incompetent and overimaginative amateurs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Someone, perhaps overimaginative, suggested to me that the unplastered corner was the same as the break in encircling lines on ancient pottery.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter