Sentence examples for merely imagine from inspiring English sources

But do I really see what I see, or merely imagine that I do?" This is, it should be noted, some very high-quality weed.

So, let's merely imagine that very soon we were considering the idea that, just as you needed centres of excellence to produce great academics, so you needed long-established schools to turn out fine artists.

Brain cells involved in spatial navigation and mapping the environment also fire when we merely imagine moving through familiar surroundings, according to a new study by researchers at University College London.

ISTANBUL — Hailed as one of the last great travelers of Anatolia, the American photographer Josephine Powell was witness to the lives of nomads in ways that most Westerners could merely imagine, collecting artifacts and tens of thousands of images along the way.

"It could have been the case that Rachel has a brother" is true not because Rachel can merely imagine it.

We can perhaps avoid representing a particular number of dots when we merely imagine a display of the relevant kind; or if a particular number is represented, our experience may not make us aware of the number just as, when one imagines the sky on a starry night, for no particular number \ k\) are we aware that exactly \ k\) stars are represented.

As Cain Todd (2012) argues, the awareness of fictionality of sexual representations ensures that one's imaginative engagement implies merely imagined "desire-like" states, whereas the voyeuristic appreciation of a stripper's erotic dance seems to preclude this sort of engagement, and in virtue of doing so, involves real sexual desire.

Thought experiments should be distinguished from thinking about experiments, from merely imagining any experiments to be conducted outside the imagination, and from psychological experiments with thoughts.

The genius plumbs the depths of the soul and scales the heights of imagination — much of which is best left merely imagined and unrealized.

Merely imagining these thoughts makes me sweat even more.

The embodied desperation just isn't as terrifying and touching as the merely imagined.