As it turns out, conceiving that child may be more difficult than Alex and Nancy thought, since their new tenant keeps the television on all night long (she seems to be a fan of "South Park"), depriving Alex and Nancy of both sleep and the kind of quiet moments that inspire lovemaking.
A year ago, she fled Gori when it was under bombardment; nine of her neighbors were killed, she said, and she still has trouble conceiving that Russia would use bombs on civilians.
He could remember, as a child, watching old film of tanks rolling over the same cobblestones, not conceiving that he could ever be here as part of the Army.
When once asked whether she didn't miss going out, seeing friends, living the life everyone else lived, she answered, "I never thought of conceiving that I could ever have the slightest approach to such a want in all future time".
What more is involved in believing that aspirin will relieve my headache than in merely conceiving that it will?
This is only to say that it is through the act of conceiving that a thing is put into intentional being.
