Sentence examples for seem to conceive from inspiring English sources

Their classmates can't seem to conceive that a student at an elite college would be preparing to go to war.

How anachronistic it will soon seem to conceive a big creative idea without thinking about how to turn it into a media event, make it viral and applicable across media, allow consumers to mash it up and remould it.

The Vedas do not seem to conceive of an end to the world, but Puranic cosmogony accounts for the periodic destruction of the world at the close of an eon, when the Fire of Time will put an end to the universe.

Bentham and on some views Burke seem to conceive only of legal rights; but if one can make sense of moral obligation, one can make sense of abstract rights.

The remarks sound contradictory, but Harman seemed to conceive of memory as an external storage device.

He seems to conceive of himself as a self-invented superhero: the Ubernode, the world's most networked person.

He seems to conceive the making of objects as a kind of evolution which differentiates one man from another, one society from another.

Castresana often compared the criminals he investigated to characters from literature, and he seemed to conceive of himself as an Arthurian knight swept up in one heroic battle after another.

He spoke in an essentially personal capacity; he declined to endorse same-sex marriage as a constitutional right that transcends state law; and, in cases like this at least, he seemed to conceive of rights as something that majorities confer on minorities when they please.

I liked the way he seemed to conceive of the period from the forties through the seventies an era of cultural moltings and switchbacks on both sides of the Atlantic as a single arc, a unified story, propelled by subtle changes in the public reading of events.

So you can watch these films and be excited by a great deal: the savage editing; the frequent use of off-screen space; the deadpan reaction shots; the sudden surges of emotion; and, above all, the extraordinary energy that drives the films on and which seems to conceive, shoot, cut and construct in one passionate thrust.