To the Austrian eye, Mr. Schwarzenegger and Mr. Stronach are larger than life -- or at least larger than any Austrian would conceive himself.
Adams, still a boy, could not guess how intensely intimate this London grime was to become to him as a man, but he could still less conceive himself returning to it fifty years afterwards, noting at each turn how the great city grew smaller as it doubled in size; cheaper as it quadrupled its wealth; less imperial as its empire widened; less dignified as it tried to be civil.
For the man who had conceived of himself the ultimate arbiter of violent change, it must have been tantalizingly heady to witness, but ultimately frustrating.
Daugherty is right to claim that Barthelme conceived of himself as an heir of the modernist tradition — in particular, of Beckett.
The house is the world's first temple to "Acid Modernism," the aesthetic the California-born Aitken conceived for himself and Gemma Ponsa, his companion of the last six years.
Previously, the analyst had conceived of himself as a kind of medium bringing messages from the realm of the unconscious to the reluctant ear of consciousness — as an intermediary between the patient's buried passions and his overt morals.
"Lord Oakeshott has conceived of himself as something of a kingmaker and has gone beyond his competencies in the matter," he told Radio 4's World at One. Justice Minister Simon Hughes, the party's former deputy leader, accused Lord Oakeshott of "utterly reprehensible" behaviour and of acting in a way that was against the interests of the party.
Colt conceived of himself as a man of science and thought if he could enlighten people about a new idea like nitrous oxide, he could in turn make people more receptive to his new idea concerning a revolver.
While Obama never saw himself as a revolutionary he did conceive of himself as a transformational figure.
