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.
"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.
Focus on the task at hand and envision success instead of thinking about everything that can go wrong.
In 1979 Arneson and Richard L. Snider, an original Blackmoor player, co-authored Adventures in Fantasy, a role-playing game that attempted to recapture the "original spirit of the Role Playing Fantasy Game" that Arneson had envisioned in the early 1970s, instead of what D&D had become.
Instead of envisioning each draft pick as gaining points, think of him as costing you points.
But instead of envisioning a free market in marijuana, officials in Ohio had decreed that if the law passed only marijuana from ten predesignated farms inside the state would be available for purchase.
The big breakthrough came two weeks ago, when I was reflecting on how one night, while I was sound asleep, a youthful gang of bikers roared maddeningly by my window for the umpteenth time, but on this occasion, instead of envisioning a strand of piano wire strung at neck height, I invited the bikers into my dreams, ushering them in as neglected and needy youngsters.
"Instead of envisioning the power of evil as an alien force that threatens and invades human beings from outside, the author of Philip urges each person to recognize the evil within, and consciously eradicate it," she writes.
Actually, you could say that something like this vision is still popular in elite circles; instead of envisioning Raymond Massey enforcing peace through air supremacy, they would have Michael Bloomberg enforcing budget discipline through bipartisan commission, but the spirit of the thing is the same.
Indeed the reader is left with the impression that instead of envisioning -- and rendering -- a coherent new novel, Mr. Ishiguro simply ran the notion of a detective story through the word processing program of his earlier novels, then patched together the output into the ragged, if occasionally brilliant, story we hold in our hands.
