Sentence examples for envisaging himself as from inspiring English sources

Envisaging himself as a modern Sinbad — his other nickname — he had tried to enlist but was turned away, because he was too young.

My father, for example, used to say that he wished he had lived in the Victorian age, envisaging himself as a country gentleman with a large estate who spent his time giving orders to servants.

Envisaging himself as something of a prime minister in Washington's official family, Hamilton developed a bold and masterly program designed to build a strong union, one that would weave his political philosophy into the government.

Optimistically attached to a third Iron Man in 2012, Downey is also signed up for The Avengers the same year: Ask whether he ever envisaged himself as the hero of a multi-million-dollar comic-book superhero franchise such as Iron Man, he quips: "Yeah.

The first half, from "Breathe" to "Vertigo", focused on the personal, where Bono "envisages himself as a young man, struggling to find his feet in life and in search of some kind of personal epiphany".

Following the European Union model, continent-wide parliaments are envisaged, as well as a reformed general assembly of the United Nations.

Planned expansion envisaged as many as 700,000 Northern workers by 2012.

Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.

This, after all, was envisaged as long ago as 1875.

Had director Neil Armfield and designer Robert Cousins treated Das Rheingold the way Wagner himself envisaged it, as a "preliminary evening" before the three main days, a tragicomic satyr play - in the terms of Greek drama - before the weightier tragedies to come?

Other potential mechanisms could be envisaged as well.