Based on Bergson's la fonction fabulatrice – the capacity for make-believe that lends colour and meaning to our existence – the idea is that to make life livable the individual puts flesh on the gaunt bones of an alien and indifferent world by dint of his or her imaginative powers.
When it comes to exploiting the vibraphone's capacity for making a simple statement sound beautiful, Bobby Hutcherson has no equal.
For a man whose career was built in significant part on his preternatural capacity for making quick decisions, Peyton Manning sure took his time over the last one.
His parents' unhappiness took its effect on all their children and, in turn, he used to have "a fair capacity" for making himself and other people miserable.
And Fuji is doubling its capacity for making films and papers in the United States early next year, a move that many analysts expect might set off a price war.
But perhaps most important was his capacity for making his clients raise their game to levels they themselves hadn't believed possible.
Iraq accounts for 5% of world output and at least 10% of reserves.No one should underestimate Mr Hussein's capacity for making mischief.
Since the summer, Mr Obama has agreed that even an Iranian capacity for making a bomb, short of actual possession of one, would not be acceptable.
She has been exposed to her own weakness, to her capacity for making fatal mistakes, and, most of all, to her mortality.
China, it seems, has an inexhaustible capacity for making stuff, and Americans, even now, have an inexhaustible capacity for buying it: sneakers, TVs, pet food, and, more recently, investments.
