Sentence examples for imaginary exercise from inspiring English sources

By his definition, the best way to ascertain what is or isn't a fixture requires an imaginary exercise.

Even after winnowing down GE Capital in this imaginary exercise, the group would still have a $146 billion commercial lending and leasing arm, a business that G.E. has been in for more than a quarter of a century.

"Sometimes, it makes more sense to do something else, to say 'We're not playing the Super Bowl game,' literally or figuratively," said one participant in the imaginary exercise, John Brodeur, chairman and chief executive at Brodeur Worldwide in Boston, a unit of the Omnicom Group.

This imaginary exercise in perspective thus seems to support moral skepticism: the very idea of independent, stable moral truths will seem suspect (playing no role in the explanation of the origins of various possible moral senses), and our confidence that our moral sense would track them in any case will seem unwarranted.

I know, snubbing Amy Adams's  Arrival performance a fine turn in a career that's been nothing but peaks so far can, even in this imaginary exercise, seem a little cruel.

In fact, this proposal for a recommendation is a consequence of the rejection of the Danish and Greek initiatives and is the corollary to the purely imaginary exercise and the game of make-believe that both rapporteurs have been peddling.

The more they talk, however, the more they all appear hobbled by their own histrionics -- tossing out perverse intellectual jokes and clusters of quotations, for instance -- as if their rebellions were really hypothetical, virtual, mere imaginary exercises with mental puppets.

Our final imaginary example is related to the effects of long sustained aerobic exercise.

In fact, no one was missing; the entire exercise used imaginary props and locales.

In fact, no one was missing; the entire exercise used imaginary props and locales, Matthew L. Wald reports in The New York Times on Monday.

This all sounds like a Utopian exercise in imaginary mathematics, but the professors are deadly serious about every government in the world universally agreeing to change the way time is measured, and have plans to spread the world of their calendar and UTC using viral campaigns on social media.