Sentence examples for conceived of men from inspiring English sources

Ever since Enlightenment philosophers conceived of men and animals as machines, clever people have found reasons and means to enforce the idea; this book presents notable automatons, both genuine and fake, down to Thomas Edison's time.

He conceived of man as a passenger in a cosmic spaceship a passenger whose only wealth consists in energy and information.

"To conceive of men remaining forever unequal upon a single point, yet equal on all others, is impossible; they must come in the end to be equal upon all," he wrote.

The joke lands because of an age-old double-standard: society often simply doesn't conceive of men as vulnerable.

In this way of conceiving of man, the role that the Logos plays in giving birth to the cosmos is clear.

But that, again, would be a case of forming a judgment, as opposed to simply conceiving of man without any judgment whatsoever.

Jackson conceived of "That Man" as "a topical treatment of interesting incidents rather than a history or diary".

Carpenter explained his artistic intentions: I conceived of that band of men, upon whom the eyes of the world centered as never before upon ministers of state, gathered in council, depressed, perhaps disheartened at the vain efforts of many months to restore the supremacy of the government.

I conceived of a young man of privilege who went to war, and created Jack Dana.

Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8).

Perhaps this coincidence was actually conceived of specifically to remind men to put the seat down when using the loo, but either way, we're asking you: which one will you be marking?