"This South Africa is not what I imagined as a young man, " he said.
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Leagues and tournaments draw larger audiences to a sport, as athletes and teams start to be imagined as representing cities and, on a bigger stage, nations.
Bounty hunters are typically imagined as big burly men who make a living by working within (or outside of) the law to bring down the bad guys.
If this was all just some fantasy Jason imagined as he endured torture at the hands of the pirates in a bamboo cage, there should have been more distinct signals implying that.
He had imagined himself as a boy winning the World Series, throwing the perfect pass, saving his favorite teachers from mortal peril.
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She imagined him as a bored high-school shark, moving slow and silent through the halls, heavy with his own power and cravings.
Ultimately, the level of support and kindness these eight boys and girls showed one another rose to a level I could have never even imagined, as those of you who watch the film will inevitably see.
Consumer gripes about price are pushing Gillette to prove to customers that they don't need to swap blades as often as imagined.
In 1877, when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew the first detailed map of Mars, he imagined the planet as an earthly paradise.
She imagined the woman as delicate and fair, clasping her hands as if they were wayward children who might break something if she let them go.
Although we've long imagined our memories as a stable form of information, a data file writ into the circuits of the brain, that persistence is an illusion.
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But she doesn't "get" Helena she has imagined her only as a legend, not a person, and has missed the clues that the "romance" Helena mentions just might have once involved Helena.
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In contrast, for someone using affordable loss reasoning, the idea of getting underway is far more important than having a fixed goal, because they understand they have no idea of knowing ahead of time whether their idea will truly work as imagined.
The science fiction future, as imagined by children growing up between the 1950s and 1980s is already here: we have the flat panel televisions mounted on the wall like canvases, we have the Dick Tracy personal communication devices (and we've managed to cram jukeboxes inside them -- we call them iPhones) but we're missing something.
Because of this, the final section of You Are Not a Gadget, in which other futures are imagined, such as a 'micropayment' system for viewing web content which would help content producers small and large make money on something besides advertisements, where Lanier is least convincing, seemingly because the future which he has just outlined is indeed so very bleak.
As I imagined it, this last girl would immediately fall in love with me as well.
"In our wildest dreams, we never imagined we would sell as many as we did, " he said.
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The world will be awful without them, Fyodorov thought, as he imagined the fate of the workers below him.
Social proof and the idea of a nation as an imagined community.
Bond, as an imagined agent of British culture, is an opportunity for a free-swinging, gun-toting male identity to be linked to a national spirit.
Yesterday's official announcement by the International Olympic Committee was bittersweet as Nelson imagined what it would have been like to go through the victory ceremony in Greece.
It was as if he imagined that the limner, being shorn of words, thereby lacked amusement.
The National Intelligence Council, however, is about as hard-headed an organisation as can be imagined.
Even when Obama did produce a budget, it was the closest thing to a non-entity as could be imagined.
Tongue in cheek and hand on heart, Waters re-imagined the civil rights movement as the struggle to desegregate The Hop.
Ransom tells CNET she imagined the currently dormant project as a reflection of the "overstimulation" us humans encounter in a digital world.
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As would be imagined, the West Coast and Deep South market clusters are barely seeing above 3% of the total NHL Lockout conversation.
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