Of all the Americans we could conceivably imagine reaching out to the reclusive dictatorship, the choice of Rodman is perhaps equally as improbable as the unicorn.
The characters in Murdoch's novels, she feels, are nothing more than animated arguments, and this flaw destroys them utterly: "None is a person one could conceivably imagine meeting, loving, hating, or having a conversations with.
Yet the team behind the project had wargamed every disaster and defect they could conceivably imagine before going live, and, with an acute sense of what failure would look like, they succeeded in out-thinking their most strident opponents.
Once you're sufficiently creeped out, all you have left to do is to keep the fire burning by imagining every horrible possibility that could conceivably happen to you.
"Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine it could conceivably be anything like as bad as it is," he said.
Sir Michael Holden, a rail consultant who ran East Coast line on behalf of the Department for Transport from 2009-15, said he had predicted problems with Thameslink's new timetable but "never in my worst nightmares did I imagine it could conceivably be anything like as bad as it is".
According to Holt, even if we can't describe its properties or even imagine it it is conceivably the way things could have turned out.
Conceivably, Mr. Vallone the mayoral candidate imagines that he might be the person to offer such help.
From the clearings, I could look down on Wuqi and imagine whether it might conceivably change as much over the next decade as coastal China changed over the last.
If you're a man pursuing a woman for a date, a hook-up, or a relationship, I can imagine that there could conceivably be challenges involved in staying on the right side of predation.
