And so I try to paint the context of the challenges that he faces, the history from which he originates and how, conceivably, he will interpret our actions.
So how to explain, and how conceivably to justify, a little-noticed demarche last week by Mr Bush's officials at the UN conference on disarmament in Geneva?
Scores of QCs and lawyers will cram into court four on Thursday, the largest in London's Royal Courts of Justice, to hear two and a half days of argument that could decide how – or conceivably even whether – the UK leaves the EU.
Nor can she see how we could conceivably vote to leave the EU next week.
"So I don't see how they could conceivably arrest large numbers of people arriving every day.
Let us, you and I, the fascist and the leftist, sit down and see, by asking each other some questions, by asking each other what is on our mind, how we could conceivably find a common place.
I fail to see how there will conceivably be a better gathering of magnificent character actors: Powers Boothe, Brad Dourif, Ricky Jay, Brian Cox, Jeffrey Jones, Paula Malcomson, John Hawkes, William Sanderson, Titus Welliver, Robin Weigert – astonishing as the ravaged, hammered, indomitable Calamity Jane – and, of course, Ian McShane.
Think of the known views of Paul Ryan, who is undoubtedly his party's intellectual leader (a fact that in itself tells you a lot about the party), and ask how he could conceivably accept any of this without admitting that he has spent his entire career being wrong about everything.
"How could she conceivably have been such a successful, bipartisan, reach-out senator, collaborating even with impeachment managers, if she hadn't learned something?" In Holbrooke's chronicle, her Senate career has instructed her in congressional power and filled the last conceivable holes in her résumé, leaving her perfectly poised for the Presidency.
I ask you: how could anyone conceivably have forecast that?
"I can't possibly understand how it could conceivably benefit the general public," Burke said.
