It was inconceivable to us then — and barely imaginable now — that our churches and temples would echo none of our voices on the Sabbath, that our office towers would rise unoccupied through the workweek, that silver would not clatter against dinnerware in our restaurants, that whole nights would pass without music insinuating itself into the humid air.
A kind of landscape that once seemed barely imaginable now seems inevitable and necessary: that's the logic and the illusion in so much of California, urban and rural.
A cascade of legal and cultural changes that would begin reshaping the nation, opening up opportunities for a new generation that were barely imaginable when Belle was a girl.
These last 12 months have seen their fair share of events that had a direct impact on Ireland's LGBT community, speeding up progress to a pace that was barely imaginable 10 years ago.
Not only will you have a glimpse into research that was barely imaginable just a generation ago, but you will see why MIT is uniquely situated for this kind of revolution.
What it all means is that in 2005 we'll be using cell phones with applications on them that were barely imaginable a few years ago.
Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.
Owen, Sassoon, Thomas - these are the secular saints of a conflict whose brutality remains barely imaginable, whose work counts the human costs that were wilfully disregarded at the time.
Curiously, the study has no discussion of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, but the omission reinforces the basic message: Despite the good it does, the Internet makes possible destructive behaviors that, only a decade ago, were barely imaginable.
Having a complete picture of the yeast genome opened the door to functional genomics approaches that had previously been barely imaginable.
