Among his strengths was a gift for envisaging the future.
"I am not envisaging the chief constable returning," he said.
"For commuters and the government it is perhaps the ultimate nightmare," says the Guardian, envisaging the appalling effects of a gas attack on a crowded Tube train.
Sally Taylor, the foundation's chair, said the award was "about looking beyond the obvious and the commercial and envisaging the music of the future.
She actually closes her eyes for dramatic effect, as if envisaging the hoards of e-board-buyers all wanting one at once.
This review will therefore be conducted without, at any point, envisaging the hilarious and searing agony of a piece of cheesewire bisecting you from the unmentionables up.
Trust in John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, has not been bolstered by jocular remarks envisaging the BBC's demise as "a tempting prospect".
I walked 30 careful metres on to the lake, every hair on my head alive to the first cracks, envisaging the unknown black depths beneath the white crust.
The State Department, it is alleged, takes an excessively "realist" view of a post-war Iraq, envisaging the removal of the dictator but his replacement by a traditional authoritarian leadership of the kind that exists all over the Arab world.
This world Gibson constructed had as much to say about 1980s society, which was still caught up in the fallout of the Cold War and the increasing threat of nuclear destruction, as it did about envisaging the future.
German O. Gref, head of the Center for Strategic Research and master of Aleksandr House, confidently predicted this week that by late May Mr. Putin will be ready to release "a breakthrough scenario envisaging the most radical reforms," from an overhaul of Russia's cumbersome tax code to a streamlining of its infamous bureaucracies.
