Unlike his earlier foray into ichthyology, Ramachandran was entering a sphere of science fraught with politics.
When your hand enters a sphere, for example, you feel the edges and the contours of it and, in the case of multiple objects, the contours and spaces between.
Both types of vehicles allowed humankind to enter a new sphere.
Either we simply cannot imagine such a world, or we are forced to enter into a sphere that plainly goes beyond the style of thinking informed, critical, and reflective by which we had most probably identified ourselves as appropriate readers working through Benjamin's essay up to that point.
Diana's appointment was, at the time, a brave one, and with it the Guardian entered a new sphere.
For a visitor sitting at the center of the room, it felt like entering a palpable sphere of sound.
When the Abu Ghraib prison photos came to light in 2004, they entered a public sphere already saturated with graphic portrayals of horror.
Similarly to her creator, Mani swims through "a sequencer forest, enters a golden sphere, and discovers many other audio-visual delights".
We have now entered a media sphere of "choice": one in which DVRs and the Internet overall and Twitter and RSS feeds enable us to pick and choose what news stories are important or enjoyable to us.
That's the only hope we have – to enter an opponent's sphere of ideas and try to understand why they might be thinking the way they do.
By mentally focusing on the course as a friendly path and not a hostile obstacle, he became one with nature, entering a whole new sphere of being.
