Ms. Rzeszewski said she would never dream of offering, say, a grand cru on draft.
"When I started teaching at Harvard 23 years ago," Cox said, "I wouldn't have dreamed of offering a course on Jesus.
While many members could not afford even a weekly share, we began taking special orders for items that the local supermarket would never dream of offering.
"I wouldn't dream of offering anything to my American clients because I think it would be crass," said Lowell Libson, a London dealer.
With this we should consign the term "interactive movie" to history's dustbin, because movies can't dream of offering audiences a narrative structure as intimate and involving as this: they're just moving pictures.
If the talks were happening today, the Shell chief executive, Ben van Beurden, would not dream of offering 383p in cash plus shares currently worth 670p, the terms on which its shareholders will vote on later this month.
Peloton has a much bigger picture approach: it merges gym quality equipment with expert instruction, uniquely effective motivation, data and metrics, and more classes, teachers and options than any brick and mortar facility could dream of offering.
At a time when the latest in the many hundreds thousands?—of would-be "Oracle Database killers" that have surfaced over the past 40 years are doing a great deal of barking but not so much biting, Oracle is introducing a "self-driving" database that is vastly beyond what any of those aspirants can even dream of offering.
The co-founders also dreamed of offering users a choice of different personality "packs" that could be installed to make Siri's answers sweeter or sassier.
Those could include AT&T, which agreed in August to buy NextWave Wireless for $600 million to gain its spectrum; a revitalized T-Mobile USA, which plans to merge with MetroPCS; or Dish Network, which has dreams of offering cellphone service.
