The Thai king, by contrast, is conceived of, on the one hand, as the descendant of an ancient caste of warrior-kings, and on the other as a future Buddha.
Because only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling a hundred miles.' 'My husband said he needed more space.
This means not only supporting them "from outside" once they have occurred, as many have done, but conceiving of one's intellectual activity as part and parcel of a collective intellectuality.
Instead, we are sitting in the theatrically elevated courtyard of a Manhattan hotel with a monster chandelier behind us - only the Americans could conceive of one so large - and a high glass roof with dizzy green leaves above us.
Anyone can write a plot in which crooks kidnap each other to extract each other's kidneys; it takes an Elmore Leonard to conceive of one in which the kidneys are sold back to their indignant original owner.
With all that has happened at ground zero in the past three months -- the bodies recovered, the tons of rubble hauled away, even the police officers and the firefighters brawling -- it is hard to conceive of one last broken piece of a 110-story building stirring emotions.
Asked by a senator if he could make a decision adverse to G.M.'s interests, Mr. Wilson replied, "I cannot conceive of one because for years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa".
It is from this perspective that "one thinks of oneself as an individual facing a world, as a subject distinct from everything else"; it is what enables us "to conceive of one's body and mental states as one's own" (ibid.: 60, 4).
By conceiving of one's natural right as something like an entitlement that can be transferred, which in turn leads him to drive a wedge between right and power in the commonwealth, Hobbes never fully rids his account of the vestiges of the juridical tradition that Spinoza sought to overturn.
"I cannot conceive of one, because for years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa.
