Sentence examples similar to entertain a idea from inspiring English sources

We are restoring the idea of entertainment to its empathetic Latin root: "to hold inside," as in, to entertain an idea or experience.

This, he seems to say to us, is what it means for a novelist to entertain an idea.

It's one thing to entertain an idea, even to feel it physically, quite another to act on it.

And I thought: they're both men who keep things so incredibly close to their chests; they wouldn't even entertain an idea like that unless there was some seed germinating somewhere".

ADAM GOPNIK: Yes, I think many of the scholars I cite in the essay entertain an idea like this — that is, that they're written for different groups, and that they "compete" with each other in the sense that the way they tell the story — emphasizing the role of the Jesus family, for instance (ah! another em-dash!) — is due to the point they're trying to "sell".

When Brentano explains in his Psychology that every mental phenomenon "includes something as object within itself" (Brentano 1995, p. 88), he is using the term 'object' in a technical sense for those objects that exist in our minds whenever we entertain a thought or idea.

"I am afraid he's always entertained an idea to become the president," Mr. Nasheed said.

Why are so many people entertaining an idea that sounds vaguely Marxian?

Of course, the argument which Anselm actually presents pays no attention to this distinction between encoding and attributing i.e., between entertaining an idea and holding a belief and nor does it pay attention to various other niceties.

Darío entertained a precise idea of how to do this.

Meanwhile, Kumar Subramanian, now 44, a senior executive at IDBI Bank in Mumbai who'd previously worked at Bank of America and Standard Chartered, was entertaining a similar idea for commercial banking.