Sentence examples for i conceive to from inspiring English sources

"I have a certain conception of what I conceive to be the right relationship between a writer and publisher," said novelist Sherwood Anderson, "a relationship that might be, at its best, a kind of intellectual marriage".

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor; to change the character of our thought.

Such is the present Law of our Nature, which I conceive to be no other than a meer arbitrary Constitution or Establishment of Him that hath made us to be what we are" (Johnson 1752, §3, 3).

Howe refused to withdraw his men, telling Bellew "I am too much an Officer to recede from any point which I conceive to be my duty".

So opens "The Violence Project," a show I conceived to dramatize the epidemic of kids' violence in this country.

Anthony Trollope said that his 1875 novel, "The Way We Live Now," was "instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age".

Trollope, in his autobiography, said that the novel was "instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age".

The discussions were extensive — "more discussion that I wanted to have under what I conceived to be time pressure to close the deal," he wrote — and the lawyers suggested changes.

I formed to my self Ideas of greater accuracy than had yet appeared, and have endeavoured to produce a Sett of Types according to what I conceived to be their true proportion.

God knows I have endeavored to fulfill what I conceived to be an honest duty.

In "Meaning a Life," Mary explains that she was determined to get out of Grants Pass because it "held for me the greatest danger I could conceive: to be trapped in a meaningless life with birth and death in a biological repetition, without serious thought or a search for life with more meaning".