The future of aviation was being conceived in the public imagination and in the shops of a handful of eager inventors, not on military bases.
Lately an almost wholly unexpected strain of ancient aesthetic thought has come to light, in the Epicurean doctrines expounded by Philodemus, in which imagination is conceived in what seems almost a romantic way.
(In the margins of the letter, there is a hand-scrawled note saying that his words appear "conceived in the realms of fantasy and imagination").
It's full of action and colour, as well as imagination, as befits the studio's first conceived in 3D as well as the first animation film to open Cannes.
Unlike patchwork, applique was not conceived in poverty; Colonial women with cloth to spare let loose their imaginations with applique and created some astonishing works of art.
The novel is conceived in terms of an alliance between the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, who embody the liberal imagination at its best, and Ruth Wilcox, the owner of the house Howards End, which has remained close to the earth for generations; spiritually they recognize a kinship against the values of Henry Wilcox and his children, who conceive life mainly in terms of commerce.
The Appalachian Trail, which was conceived in 1921 and completed in 1937, regularly pops up in popular culture, whether in "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson or in the feverish imagination of Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina.
The Fords were obviously conceived in madness: any car which was capable of going from forward into reverse without any perceptible mechanical hiatus was bound to be a mighty challenging thing to the human imagination.
Both were conceived in 1950.
Class2Go was conceived in spring.
Bopha was conceived in equally unnatural circumstances.
