Dad, who had entertained notions of a midday brasserie extravaganza, gamely agreed.
At the same time, Atwood loves to entertain notions of how degraded our future might become, and what effect that might have on the human race.
Doing so doesn't require us to entertain notions of a conspiracy or plot; we can see this suspension of our ordinary lives happening all around us.
Guests, consequently, may head down stairs, past the polished brass station that shelters the doorman in the winter, beneath the infrared lamps warming the steps, but shouldn't entertain notions of running off to Brooklyn or the High Line.
Herzog's fictional features often entertain notions of civilisation fallen apart – from the mini-revolution in Even Dwarfs Started Small to the semi-abstract deserts of Fata Morgana to the psychotic barbarism of Aguirre, Wrath Of God.
But he refused to entertain notions of resigning the captaincy after seeing his side slip to fourth, behind South Africa, Sri Lanka and India in the ICC rankings, and said defeat here made him more determined to lead Australia to victory in the 2010-11 Ashes.
It is highly unlikely that Mr. Erdogan would consider autonomy for the Kurds, but analysts expect him to at least entertain notions like restructuring election laws to allow minority parties to have greater access to Parliament and allowing wider use of ethnic languages like Kurdish.
When Garp is struggling to write his next work, he entertains notions of becoming a marriage counselor because "art doesn't help anyone".
They were interested only in demonstrating to me what it meant to live in a body, as a body, a body which can entertain notions of justice only as long as it is whole and well, which very soon forgets them when its head is gripped and a pipe is pushed down its gullet and pints of salt water are poured into it...
He even entertained the notion of Russian membership in NATO.
