Sentence examples for imagining himself to from inspiring English sources

The boy is pitiable; but she knows, for example, that slowly eating a cupcake, or imagining himself to be a fish, are as present to him as grief.

After a feverish death, Jacob, reincarnated as a fly, wings his way to earth, imagining himself to be "a Viking with blond hair".

Twelve years later, he is wandering the streets of Los Angeles in filthy tweeds, imagining himself to be William Morris -- the Victorian Renaissance Man, not the agent -- although in fact he used to work at, yup, the William Morris Agency.

The character of Willy was most closely modeled on an uncle, Miller said, but his father's precipitous fall from affluence to abjection, and his restless attempts over the years to re-establish himself in business, surely find an echo in Willy's desperate determination to make himself into the success in the eyes of the world that he cannot stop imagining himself to be.

He would have grown up thinking wishfully of one day scoring a Test century for England at Headingley, perhaps imagining himself to be Michael Vaughan.

Quite possibly he imagines himself to be that person.

He does not imagine himself to be in competition with bookshops like Glendora.

He's what you'd think the president would imagine himself to be".

"My power is influencing everybody," he says to introduce himself on camera, smiling beneficently like the guru he imagines himself to be.

Freddy has set off to look for Heidi, who may be in Manhattan, and he has met a guide called Wise Dog, who imagines himself to be sophisticated.

Everyone, of whatever era, can imagine himself to be a Cortez of coition, staring at a heaving Pacific of newly discovered erotic possibility.