Sentence examples for commonly imagined from inspiring English sources

The thrust of civilization is commonly imagined as an arc curving ever upward.

"The manner in which a thing is done," Hamilton once advised a future mayor of New York, "has more influence than is commonly imagined".

This is not quilting as commonly imagined – Laura Ashley pre-cut squares machined together for the guest room – but something infinitely more imaginative, idiosyncratic, personal; another way of drawing or painting, another form of narrative or expression.

These commonly imagined aspects of early complex society were strikingly underdeveloped in Hongshan society, given its complex ceremonial architecture, elaborate burial treatment of presumed ritual specialists, and famous jade carvings.

Their crookedness suggests that soft tissue may not have extended all the way to the tips of the spines, meaning that the sail's webbing may not have been as extensive as it is commonly imagined.

However, I found that the experiences of trafficked persons challenged the ways in which trafficking is most commonly imagined in that trafficked individuals themselves attributed their suffering to an entirely different set of circumstances (e.g. fear, isolation, deceit, threats to their families) than those emphasized by the media, the general public, and even many law enforcement officials.

And floating is much more rare than people commonly imagine.

We most commonly imagine a pyramid as having a square base, and sides that taper up to a single point, but the base of a pyramid can actually have 5, 6, or even 100 sides!

Moreover, spontaneous regression of screen-detected cancers occurs, and indeed much more commonly than previously imagined, which we demonstrated by comparing breast cancer incidence in screened and non-screened cohorts in Norway and Sweden (Zahl et al, 2008, 2011).

This is impressive, but it is not what people commonly think of when they imagine book publishing (or if they choose it for a profession).

He wavered, as revolutionary thinkers commonly do, between imagining the upheaval he was urging on the Islamic world as coming from above with the state-sanctioned imposition of Koranic law, or rising from below as moral regeneration by the faithful.