Let us say however that in the idea of envisaging the esteem of a woman as the highest object of human activity, and setting up love as the supreme principle of morality, there is nothing of the antique spirit, or indeed of the Teutonic. ❋ Unknown (1909)
As noted above, the commander brings to mind courses of action by the mental act of "envisaging", i.e., "viewing with the mind's eye or conceptionally", "seeing as a mental image", bringing fully and distinctively to view. ❋ Unknown (1915)
As for you, I'm "envisaging" a urine smelling armchair with a rumpled copy of the Times being shaken. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The EAC report found: "There is, more fundamentally, an inconsistency in the government's position of trumpeting its acceptance of a recommended carbon budget for 20 or so years hence, while at the same time envisaging the possibility of overturning that commitment just three years from now." ❋ Unknown (2011)
It was a full minute into envisaging this before I realised it was Brown, the Prime Minister of England, not Ramsay the media, hungry foul-mouthed chef they were talking about. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)
Could it be that the really intriguing questions about episodic narratives and American fiction are bound up in the relationship between story-telling and the possibility of envisaging deep and meaningful consequences? ❋ Unknown (2009)
While Democrats have spoken generally about overhauling entitlement programs, they would be almost certain to oppose moves to change the Medicaid program as Republicans are envisaging. ❋ Corey Boles (2011)
Though it does not yet quite talk the talk of "digital first" – looking forward, like the Journal Register group in the US or the Guardian here in Britain, to the days when dead trees are left to lie and paperless news organisations bestride the net – it is, nevertheless, envisaging a certain sort of future: one where everything changes, everything is up for grabs. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The government would not be legally and constitutionally responsible – envisaging a light touch where providers were "autonomous" and free to decide how and what care patients would receive. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I do recall envisaging him, however, floating facedown in the dirty little pond in the courtyard of his massive prefabricated concrete apartment complex. ❋ Josef K. Strosche (2011)
Doomy prophecies envisaging the Highlands as a vista of holiday parks, grouse moors and forestry plantations are not far-fetched. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"Self-control is a vital skill for scanning the horizon to be prepared for what might happen to you, for envisaging your own future possibilities, … and for waiting for the really good things that are worth waiting for, instead of jumping for short-term enticements," wrote Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi , the Duke University psychologists who led the research, in an email. ❋ Katherine Hobson (2011)
Santorum, who has a lifetime of not serving in the armed forces of the United States under his belt, brought the full weight of his complete lack of expertise to bear on the subject by deftly envisaging the cinematic implausibility of men and women serving together under enemy fire without instantly falling in love with one another to the tactical detriment of their presumably similarly-smitten comrades in arms. ❋ John Baxter (2012)
They have had this week in their minds for three years, since the idea of a Gauguin show was first determined – Thomson based in Edinburgh, envisaging the show's narrative, Gauguin as teller of tales, maker of myths; Riding at the Tate in London acting on wish lists, tracking down paintings, determining (with a little help from followers of her blog) the colour of the gallery walls. ❋ Tim Adams (2010)
The two bought the New York Sun together, envisaging it as a potential rival to the New York Times. ❋ Ewen MacAskill In Chicago (2010)
A thin lad with faint light on his bare chest, envisaging an intimate encounter with a woman twice his age, dreaming her curves and moves until the curtains fall, cutting short the echoes of his loneliness. ❋ Nicolette Wong (2010)
Chief global equities strategist Michael Hartnett said, "April's survey shows a growing number of investors envisaging a Goldilocks scenario of above-trend growth and benign inflation." ❋ Tess Stynes (2010)
T: “I envisage if you make a [drink out] of Hyphaene thebaica, it’ll taste like [wood]”
M: “you mean you [imagine] it’ll taste like wood, right?”
T: “yeah” ❋ Moustafa (2018)
