Sentence examples for be forgiven for imagining from inspiring English sources

AMERICANS who never fought a war or feared a depression could be forgiven for imagining a risk-free world.

Philip Selway If you were to guess what an album by Radiohead's drummer would sound like, you'd be forgiven for imagining a tangled forest of half-electronic beats.

Listening to these stories of powerful financiers and businessmen starting families alone, one could be forgiven for imagining baby farms, run by batteries of nannies.

One of the most unusual and beautiful waterfalls in the world, again you could be forgiven for imagining yourself with the elves in Middle Earth.

If you scan the internet for opinion, you could be forgiven for imagining that we're all crimson with rage, our eyes straining at their sockets, our faces flecked with spittle.

Travelling around Managua today, amid the reek of electoral fraud from last week's nationwide municipal polls, you could be forgiven for imagining the country was being run by a Catholic theocracy.

The first days of the war in Iraq were so smooth, Americans might have been forgiven for imagining that the conflict would be clean and relatively free of casualties.

You could have been forgiven for imagining that this East Village theater had been turned into an asylum by the four mad creatures occupying the stage.

You could be forgiven for not imagining that university when people talk about liberal colleges and coddled professors.

But if there wasn't one could be forgiven for having imagined it, as the moment had the same feeling as when a man is about to be shot out of a cannon or a woman is about to jump onto a galloping horse.

Coming face to face with Lagarde, however, you could be forgiven for thinking you must have imagined the whole crisis.