Sentence examples for beyond their imagining from inspiring English sources

The disaster's scale was beyond their imagining -- and then beyond their acknowledging.

The scale of the disaster was beyond their imagining — and then beyond their acknowledging.

These people have enough trouble walking through the walls separating them from "the world"; to walk into a significant relationship with an actual person seems beyond their imagining.

Ann Patchett's most characteristic subject is the hell turned unlikely paradise, a kind of reverse "Lord of the Flies" in which a group of strangers, shipwrecked into a disaster beyond their imagining, manage nonetheless to create a peaceable habitat where love and decency prevail.

The fatalistic couple lived to a reasonable age, Igor to 60, Svetlana to 77, a bit beyond their imagined destined day.

The German chancellor, though triumphantly re-elected with not a cloud in her political sky, is in no position to say, "I agreed with the Americans to allow 40m telephone calls a day to be intercepted in Germany; I just want them to stop listening to my phone!" The US listeners are having a political crisis beyond their previous imagining.

Children of immigrants often continued the quest, moving forward from immigrant homes into a new Americanness that was beyond their parents' wildest imagining.

The family hunkered down below, the children stoic beyond imagining as they did lessons with their governess, pressing their faces to the glass of the portholes to watch the waves smash the deck.

For each, it's almost as if their near-death experience scared them straight, propelled them back to a point of recovery beyond even their own imagining.

Appleby county councillor Andy Connell said it will take years for people and the community to rebuild their lives after a storm that was "beyond people's imagining".

It is no surprise, then, that the mere mention of black folk visually, geographically, professionally or otherwise in historically white institutions constitutes a threat to the established order of things for those white people who cannot imagine life beyond their own personal sense of self despite the presumption of a shared democracy.