Sentence examples for could picture that from inspiring English sources

As national ideas go, it sounded good, but it was vague enough for Count Alexander Benkendorf, the chief of the secret police, to issue clarifying interpretive guidelines: "Russia's past was amazing, its present is more than marvelous, and as for the future, it is greater than anything the wildest imagination could picture; that is the point of view for examining and writing Russian history".

Or maybe she'd end up on the roof of some building; I could picture that.

"Nowhere in the sensible world could you find anything, nor could you draw any picture, that could suitably be labelled 'or' or 'not'".

I couldn't picture that mother and son anywhere but right there.

She could not picture that, refused, and resumed her old life with her mother - either planning how to gain invitations to rich friends' homes, or going to intellectual parties where the people were all poor.

I had by this time grown pretty comfortable around other humans, but I could not picture that same comfort with A Kennedy.

"For Hartford, it is as dismal a picture that could be imagined".

Viewers could not appreciate a picture that was neither entertaining nor ennobling but simply a frank statement of contemporary reality.

But Paramount's is not the only studio picture that could miss out on a cultural moment.

"You could not paint a picture that is a better color," Kay Pricola, the executive director of the Imperial Valley Vegetable Growers Association, says.

IT WAS once said of Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian photographer, that he had never taken a picture that couldn't be accompanied by a solo cello.