The hubristic nature of daring to imagine it, of daring to say: "This is how I think the universe works", is truly brilliant.
As it turned out, Lin had more to offer than anyone dared to imagine — dunks and daring drives and 38-point games that overshadowed his most valued asset.
Maybe I can start daring to imagine that it won't be another crisis … but simply a Christmas card.
It was daring to imagine such a politics in that broken moment after Auschwitz when the atomic bomb — that extraordinary product of scientific genius — threatened to extinguish civilization.
Surely these nineteenth-century communities have much to teach us about daring to imagine alternatives, about interrupting what may seem like the ineluctable march of history.
Working from this place, where the institution is considered not as neutral but as deeply gendered, raced and classed, means being careful about wielding disciplinary powers and daring to imagine something different.
They may not be flocking en masse to join the Free Syrian Army, but they are asking new questions, expressing doubts, admitting discontent, reflecting, criticizing, and even daring to imagine alternatives to the status quo in a way that would have seemed impossible only six months ago.
Obama's words "yes we can," echoed toward a future that we are daring to imagine that we can co-create.
His project, one of the most radical projects for gay men, if ever there was one, was about not only survival but post-survival for gay men, about daring to imagine a future for us, a way forward, in the aftermath of war.
Right now, there is a girl, somewhere trapped in a brothel, crying herself to sleep again, and maybe daring to imagine that some day, just maybe, she might be treated not like a piece of property, but as a human being.
