There was nothing agonised about the action last night as the players went into the attack as naturally as kids who can conceive of nothing else to do with the ball.
McTaggart holds that we can conceive of nothing that is not a material object, a sense-datum, or something spiritual, and since the first two kinds of objects are metaphysically impossible, the hypothesis of idealism is the only conceivable hypothesis left standing.
Poe had reviewed Barrett's work in the January 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal and said that "her poetic inspiration is the highest – we can conceive of nothing more august.
In some cases, as with Edmund Kean (to whom he refers frequently in this book, usually with admiration) and Sarah Siddons (he could "conceive of nothing grander" than her performance as Lady Macbeth), their interpretations of roles in Shakespearean drama left indelible impressions, extending his ideas of the potential of the characters represented.
Conceived as nothing less than what sociometry's founder, Jacob Levy Moreno, called "a science of society," sociometry is about people, numbers and behavior.
The experienced poet who feels that criticism should "honour the spirit of play in which the work was conceived" has nothing in common with the overwrought blogger who was saying, two paragraphs before, "The man's pain is intolerable".
To make something from nothing, conceive, work through, make, and finish a painting is what always drags me out of the bleak void.
(The differential models for Rosenzweig the possibility of generating something from nothing when that nothing is a determinate nothing, rather than a nothing conceived as absolute).
At the same time, the relationships among the humans, and between the humans and the apes, are so negligently conceived that almost nothing comes through.
No's Knife, a selection of Samuel Beckett's Texts for Nothing, conceived and performed by Lisa Dwan, is at the Old Vic, London SE1, from 29 September.
