"Approved," said Her Majesty, firmly, imagining perhaps as the day drew to a close the pages of this Order printed, as they soon would be, on vellum, joined with strips of silk, sealed with the Pendant Great Seal of the Realm.
Before your conversation, rehearse your replies, imagining how you'll firmly, but politely, stand your ground and stay confident no matter what.
So wedded was Nero to the idea of himself as a great musical performer that even as his principate collapsed around him, and it became clear that he would be forced to commit suicide to avoid execution, his mind was still firmly fixated on his imagined talents.
The right has certainly cast adrift parents who wish not to use third-party care for their children, and it is becoming a revolutionary (and firmly feminist) concept to imagine that equality is not only achieved via full participation in the paid workplace.
Without imagining any details, she felt the idea forming, shapely and full, and was able to hold it firmly in her mind for just a moment.
Corner Office asked a writer at The Onion to imagine, with tongue firmly in cheek, an interview on leadership and management with the company's fictional C.E.O., T. Herman Zweibel.
I firmly disagree, and can easily imagine his whole app becoming just a single filter in Snapchat and Instagram Stories.
Like much dystopian fiction, the books succeeded because although set in imagined futures, they were firmly about the now.
Imagine: Samantha Cameron, arms firmly folded while sitting primly on a chaise longue, just absolutely furious.
Imagine: Samantha Cameron, arms firmly folded while sat primly on a chaise longue, just absolutely furious.
Fingers (firmly) crossed, but it is difficult to imagine how this year's fair could end quite so dramatically.
