Sentence examples for if one imagines from inspiring English sources
If one imagines all of human social evolution charted on a 12-hour clock, then the modern industrial epoch represents the last five minutes, no more.
If one imagines the disaster often enough, here implicating literature in the work of imagination that brings the disaster about, it becomes a considerable cultural fact.
Well, not if one imagines asking the threatened conversos how they felt about it.
If one imagines the life of a writer as a fey dreamer, read this and think again.
If one imagines the nuclei replaced by spheres of the same cross-sectional area, the rate of reaction in a neutron flux would be given by the rate at which neutrons strike the spheres.
The idea that this comic stand-off approximates to that most horrifying of cold war confrontations only stands up if one imagines that Picasso found the situation somehow touched by farce.
This is also a large part of what a jazz soloist does, and if one imagined notes put to Pozo's solo flights on the conga, one would be imagining something very like a jazz horn solo.
But if one imagined a single location for these fundamental aspects of human nature, this would be the place.
Susskind, then a young particle physicist at New York's Yeshiva University, realized that the mathematical formula that explains what happens when particle pairs collide made more sense if one imagined the particles as individual loops of string that combine and oscillate together for a little while before parting ways.
If one imagined the Times asking its readers to read twelve pages of French every week, one would still not comprehend the scale of this new idea, since the Times (a) wouldn't do it and (b) is not published in a country where a belligerent defensiveness about the national language is a defining characteristic.
If one imagined for the sake of argument that $1.50-$1.50-$2.50k were the initial chosen range for receiving federal tax largesse, that would give the 28 states below that range an incentive to hike state taxes.
