The music was occasionally reminiscent of Richard Ayres, while its whole surreal theatricality sometimes recalled Kagel; really, though, it's hard to think of any other composer working today who could have conceived anything quite like it.
2.28am: If Paula Radcliffe was to peel off her own skin and hand it to a child-murdering sadist in return for the safety of 34 orphans, she couldn't be more brave than what she's doing here, according to Brendan Foster and Steve Cram in the television commentary box, who have never ever seen anything braver, nor can conceive of anything braver than her finishing ninth or tenth in this race.
"I can't conceive of anything, excluding poison, that would endanger this population".
If the threat of this much nuclear retaliation does not deter a prospective adversary, it is difficult to conceive of anything that would.
"If I couldn't differentiate between hallucination and reality, it was hard to conceive of anything certain I could use to define myself," he says.
Frankly, it's hard to conceive of anything much less commercially viable, which isn't to suggest Crystal's not a wonderful LP, because it clearly is.
"I cannot conceive of anything better than the greatest baguette, deep golden, nutty, and crunchy, with a block of the sublime butter of Brittany and Bélon oysters," he said.
"I frankly can't conceive of anything that would be a better substitute for having two major global economies having a forum where we can make progress on the most important economic issues," Mr. Paulson said.
But Mr. Bush's budget even now adds up thanks only to creative accounting, and he has made it clear that he cannot conceive of anything that would make him renege on his tax-cutting promises.
You just can't conceive that anything this thin could contain a battery (good for 22 hours of audio playback), a screen and 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory (1,000 or 2,000 songs' worth, for $150 or $200).
