Still an alcoholic garbage worker for Waste Management in Louisville — for a while he processed sewer excrement — Dr. Patterson used this newfound past to conceive a future.
The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienated World by A David Napier 314pp, Chicago, £28 Western medicine is a war against disease, and the immune response is the first line of defence.
The precondition for all of that is optimism: conceiving a future in which social care isn't a huge problem that is simply managed as it gets larger, but is recognised for what it is: a set of relationships, as human, as meaningful and as warm as any others.
One might thus conceive a future in which a countable number of molecules, possibly with their solvation shell(s), will be manipulated with electromagnetic fields above the surface of the chip and the chemical analysis will reach ultimate accuracy.
Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd Kate Walshh) finds Grey's underwear in Dr. Derek Shepherd's (Patrick Dempsey) shirt, and finds difficulty in conceiving a future for their already troubled marriage.
Dredd, conceived as a future cop who shoots people for dropping litter, is the most feared of a regime of genetically selected judges handing out instant justice to the bored, anarchic, mostly unemployed population of 400 million in a 2122AD New York, called Mega-City One.
I think he is playing a long game - and I do believe he can conceive of a future where he is no longer in power.' But to what end? 'If you look at what the First Lady is trying to do [in her social activism],' he adds, 'she makes it clear that it is in pursuit of the President's vision.
Could young Nicola conceive of a future beyond the red brick walls ("I'm quite scared" she said – and that was of leaving prison)?
He recalls from his own childhood that when you're spending all your energy just trying to get by, you have nothing left over with which to conceive of a future.
T. S. Eliot, writing in The Criterion in 1931, declared, "I cannot conceive of a future society in which Sir Edmund Gosse would be possible," classifying him among "popular entertainers for whom there will be no demand".
