free-association

This is news, if not revisionist fantasy, to anyone who knows the artist and her European Modernist-influenced works, whose ambiguous titles were generally arrived at through free-association.

Going From the Abstract to the Sort-Of Concrete Lance Esplund 2011

And since my brain was in free-association mode after practice, it went on, Of course.

kateelliott: Creativity kateelliott 2009

I don't take issue with the free-association — I love a good far-out close-reading interpretation — but I think there's an uncanny-valley sort of boundary that needs to be acknowledged when the interpretation gets this far-out: some admission that the proposed framework is largely an exercise in intellectual playfulness.

They built you a temple, and locked you away Matthew Guerrieri 2009

He suggested free-association rights could be implicated if the law forced an official to recuse himself from voting on causes "supported by those friends and affiliates."

High Court Upholds Legislators' Ethics Law Jess Bravin 2011

He suggested free-association rights could be implicated if the law forced an official to recuse himself from voting on causes "supported by those friends and affiliates."

High Court Upholds Legislators' Ethics Law Jess Bravin 2011

The curators — Susan Faxon, Allison Kemmerer and Jaime de Simone — may have first assembled the wide-ranging, sometimes surprising, often witty groupings by means of informed free-association and then attached the flexible headings, but the results require no justification.

The Pride of a Prep School Karen Wilkin 2010

Events, information, words and deeds that a decade ago were discussed and contextualized statically in print or through the controlled funnel of television and radio, are now subjected to instantaneous interpretation and free-association by millions of citizens unencumbered by the media's constraints...

Emily Douglas: Ready or Not: Obama Transition Team Publishes Reproductive Health Community's Agenda Emily Douglas 2010

Maybe when we do not understand what the story is trying to convey to us, it is just then a means to free-association while enjoying and thinking about it.

From the Dust Bin: Tales of the Armorkins #1 Chuck Wells 2010

Events, information, words and deeds that a decade ago were discussed and contextualized statically in print or through the controlled funnel of television and radio, are now subjected to instantaneous interpretation and free-association by millions of citizens unencumbered by the media's constraints ...

Ready or Not: Obama Transition Team Publishes Reproductive Health Community's Agenda 2010

Events, information, words and deeds that a decade ago were discussed and contextualized statically in print or through the controlled funnel of television and radio, are now subjected to instantaneous interpretation and free-association by millions of citizens unencumbered by the media's constraints ...

Emily Douglas: Ready or Not: Obama Transition Team Publishes Reproductive Health Community's Agenda 2010