Sentence examples for failed to imagine from inspiring English sources

Saunders, the imaginative artist, has failed to imagine other reasons for the catastrophe in Iraq besides the failure to imagine.

Daniel Dennett thinks those who accept the conceivability of zombies have failed to imagine them thoroughly enough: 'they invariably underestimate the task of conception (or imagination), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition' (1995, p. 322. Marcus 2004 makes a related point).

Maybe I failed to imagine them.

This visitor tried and failed to imagine her own fractious Manhattan co-op neighbors collaborating so admirably.

We assumed that America would avert a "fiscal cliff" early in the year, but failed to imagine a government shutdown in the autumn.

"They had failed to imagine that British young men would learn the lessons of Londonistan and deliver those lessons to London itself".

(One tries, and fails, to imagine the current President alluding to the author of "Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action").

Authoritarian environmentalists fail to imagine a world without advertising, so they dream of putting democracy "on hold".

Too many pundits, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists fail to imagine their way into the rich, elusive mental condition called "believing in God" or "being religious".

When Mrs Linde appears with her tale of hardship and poverty, Nora flutters and fails to imagine what she is talking about.

Its standout feature, though, is Coombs Marr's near-the-knuckle spoof of modern clowning, as she plays French carnival music, rolls her pop-eyes at the audience, and fails to imagine all the other things that a banana could be.