Suddenly, the world caught up with Willie Nelson, and by sticking to his guns, he now seemed visionary rather than stubborn.
Vodafone's mobile-only model, which once seemed visionary, began to look outdated, as the industry embraced "convergence" between fixed-line, mobile, broadband and television services.
Notions of using the Constitution to protect private choice on intimate matters such as contraception, abortion and sexual privacy or preference would have seemed visionary.
A seeming visionary, Pang persuades a pair of desperate bandits (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau) to join him in fighting the rebels, and the three swear a blood oath.
Plenty of European Union policies seemed visionary, or even reckless, when first suggested, but have come to be accepted with the passage of time: the abolition of frontier controls, the establishment of a single currency, even the admission of relatively poor countries such as Spain and Portugal in the 1980s or Poland today.Visionary leadership is all very well if the statesmen get it right.
Watery reflections can make settings seem visionary, and the core of the exhibition calls attention to this in examples by Minor White emphasizing mystical spatial ambiguities, by Daniel Jones featuring magical blendings of light and texture, and by Chip Forelli, revealing uncanny simultaneous experiences with alternating haze and hard-edged clarity.
My guess is that it will now seem visionary.
Now that many paleontologists have decided dinosaurs were hot-blooded social creatures, Knight seems almost visionary.
His all-round musical virtuosity as well as his film-star looks and flamboyant dress sense felt out of step with the postwar world, but Stevenson's all-embracing musicality today seems more visionary than it may have done in earlier decades.
