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No one wanted even to conceive of travelling northwards.
But it has not dared to accept this opportunity, or even to conceive of it as an opportunity.
These two positions -- the desire for idleness and an inability even to conceive of such a thing -- frame key questions about life, work and vacations.
And Empson concludes that "limited as this form [the double sestina] may be, the capacity to accept a limitation so unflinchingly, the capacity even to conceive so large a form as a unit of sustained feeling, is one that has been lost since that age".
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It is hard to imagine a time when it was not known that DNA carries the genetic information of all living organisms, and it is even harder to conceive that even after this fact was established in the 1940s, no one had a picture of the structure of DNA or any idea how DNA was duplicated or replicated before cell division.
But for that team to have Jason Kidd, the league's best playmaker, on the floor during the collapse is even harder to conceive.
That makes it even harder to conceive of an approach that could stop and eventually reverse this alarming trend," Wit wrote last month.
Before my husband and I even tried to conceive a child, our ob/gyn sent us to be screened for genetic diseases for which we could be potential carriers, among them Fanconi anemia.
Such a view would force us to come to terms with a reality where what we THINK impacts the world in profound ways, ways that are not even possible to conceive of as long as we stay stuck doing things the way we do now.
Only if you have been to St Peter's in Rome, St John the Divine in New York or the Aghia Sophia in Istanbul can you even begin to conceive of the magnitude of the nave, made all the larger with incomplete walls and ceiling.
When the foundations of today's economy were laid, gross inequality was believed to be the natural and pre-ordained order, and only a handful of enlightened thinkers had even begun to conceive of individuals having rights that should be defended by law.
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