The memorable figure he had created in his paintings was not the one he had imagined.
He did not know what to expect and imagined he might encounter some specimen of pimp the dagger-dark madam or tracksuited thug but it was a petite black girl who answered his knock and asked him who his appointment was with.
Whether he could have imagined it or not, Lewis knows what having an African-American president means to him and others.
But even he probably could not have imagined the system would end up with a monkey being elected in Peter Mandelson's patch.
After all, he could not possibly have imagined that the power to inspect a mite would one day lead to the power to inspect, and even manipulate, the subatomic particles that are the very essence of life itself.
He admitted if it was not for boxing, he could have imagined using his degree to get a job perhaps in finance or accounting.
" "If he thought something wasn't going in the direction which he imagined, he would say so, and thank goodness he did it's not exactly the most obvious text.
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"While John has repeatedly admitted to his sins, he has also consistently asserted, as we demonstrated at the trial, that he did not violate any campaign law nor even imagined that any campaign laws could apply, " they said.
In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.
"This South Africa is not what I imagined as a young man, " he said.
He imagined that Ithkuil might be able to do what Lakoff and Johnson said natural languages could not: force its speakers to precisely identify what they mean to say.
He said he imagined Dame Judi Dench would make a fitting Brutus, but said his production aimed for historical authenticity, not gender role reversal.
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