Sentence examples for imagination of man from inspiring English sources

Similarly in the following two rooms, the restlessly innovative imagination of Man Ray makes its presence felt.

From 2002: The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen).

Think first of the visible stars in their units, in their constellations, and in their myriads, so vast that the imagination of man fails to realise their number.

"I wished myself a magician, that I might transport the falls to Italy, and pour their whole volume of waters into the crater of Mount Vesuvius; witness the terrible conflict between the contending elements, and create the largest steamboiler that ever entered into the imagination of man". The steam, emerging grey-white and viscous from the depths of the crater, was Stanfield's choice of subject.

He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done".

How vast and incomparably rich must be that country and commerce, which has never ceased, one day, from the highest point of Jewish splendor to the instant that I am speaking, to supply the whole globe with all the busy imagination of man can desire for his ease, comfort, and enjoyment!

"Make no small plans, for they have no magic to stir the imagination of men," he told his associates.

He admonished them "to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil".

Do honourable members begin to realise how this is going to revolt the world when it passes into the imagination of men and women everywhere that we - with eight million here in London, the biggest single civilian target in the world, with our crowded island exposed, as no nation in the world is exposed, to the barbarism of modern weapons - we ourselves set the example.

His legacy lives on in the lives, as well as the imaginations, of men and women (though his civil codes did not treat the latter well).

Peaches are unquestionably a very beautiful and palatable fruit, but the gathering of them for the market is not nearly so interesting to the imaginations of men as the gathering of huckleberries for your own use.