Sentence examples for conceive of ourselves from inspiring English sources

The scenes describe the history of how we came to conceive of ourselves as electrochemical entities.

By Nathan Heller In relation to animals, we can conceive of ourselves as peers or protectors.

Mr Yglesias closes by writing:Americans, whether in San Francisco or in Kentucky, generally conceive of ourselves as all living in one country.

According to Freud, we are really unable to believe that we are mortal, for we cannot conceive of ourselves as being absent.

Using the contemporary literature of the Iberian Peninsula as his object, Justin plans on studying how the technologies of the modern world are changing how we conceive of ourselves and how we interact with others.

We can conceive of ourselves as becoming evident in interactions, but we have many aspects to our identity; different aspects arise in different interactions, so your Twittering involves your business self, while a dinner evokes another aspect, and so on.

We have always conceived of ourselves as bringers of order, but the risk is equally imposing -- that chaos wins, "and universal darkness buries all".

We're still in delighted shock; even though our friends have all been doing it the past few years (and by the time my mother was my age, she'd already had three sofas!), we somehow never conceived of ourselves as actually having a sofa.

I'm not sure we could conceive of anything much larger than ourselves.

Simply because in order to conceive of any such things, we must ourselves be conceiving, i.e., thinking, of them.

The founders of our country did not conceive of career congressmen when they determined how we would govern ourselves.