Sentence examples for envisioned instead from inspiring English sources

It was hardly the sprawling bachelor lair I had envisioned; instead, it was a flimsy pre-fab modular, a low-rent version of the kind in "The Truman Show".

But, by an irony he could not have envisioned, instead of seeing him as New York's Cubist they gave him exactly the role that the Douanier Rousseau had occupied before the First World War for the Cubists themselves, the "innocent" outsider who had stumbled on a method wiser than he was.

24 We envisioned instead a synthetic pathway starting with a Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation of commercially available methyl cinnamate, followed by the selective conversion of the α-hydroxy group into an azide.

Both liberal and conservative religious and political leaders recognized that this was not the kind of America we envisioned, and instead as one people we showed our support for a genuinely pluralistic America.

They envision, instead, a government in which religious authorities are given a formal role as advisers or consultants to the justice system, a system more in line with the mainstream school of Shiite political thinking in Iraq.

(And I also think not: many nationalization supporters seem to envision instead that the government would take over the banks and run them as going concerns, including making new loans and adding depositors, until they can be broken up and sold back into private hands).

"I was kind of envisioning, instead of having a band, having two dancers with old arcade, aluminum Dance Dance Revolution mats, and program those to launch samples and drum patterns, and train the dancers to trigger these correctly," explains Tucker.

I didn't see his empty, frustrated pupils, but instead envisioned my painful interactions with dilators, my screams as Brooke attempted to remove a small tampon after one overly ambitious appointment, pretending my spasms were pleasurable responses night after night for so many years.

Although it might be possible to further optimize the side chains of KYG-177, we instead envisioned expanding the core unit represented by this molecule in the hopes of picking up additional favorable interactions with the protein.

Instead, she envisioned filling it with sunflowers.

Instead, he envisioned "steam launches each capable of carrying two rifled pivot guns and no more.