"People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like 'friend me so you can be friends with someone else' or 'the more people you know, the more networked you are'.
The debates Anna has in the novel, with herself and others, I think start to conceive of gender as a relational thing: not just about women, and a particular type of woman at that (white, middle class and so on), versus men, but about all the ways in which people struggle together, through complex intersections of sex, class, race and location.
Philosophers, influenced by considerations of Heidegger and also the later Wittgenstein, have started to think of individual agents as socially and culturally embedded creatures and have started to conceive of the mind of individual agents as being socially constituted.
Glenda Shasho Jones, the president of Shasho Jones Direct, a company that creates catalogs for retailers, said consumers were starting to conceive of magazines as catalogs, especially as magazines become more and more crammed with advertising.
At the start, Howells conceived of realism as a truthful portrayal of ordinary facets of life with some limitations; he preferred comedy to tragedy, and he tended to be reticent to the point of prudishness.
We must start instead to conceive of a plural kind of spatiality, extended, expanded, rediscovered in the wealth of its otherness and the nuances of its differences, and nurtured by an articulate, complex system of material and immaterial infrastructures that penetrate a territory no longer marked by boundaries but by open filters (Branzi [2006]).
Victor Weisskopf, who later became the Director General of CERN, summed up Bohr's role, saying that "there were other personalities who started and conceived the idea of CERN.
I started to conceive the antenna as a part of my body, as an organ.
After rereading some of Frankl's work on values and meaning, I started to conceive the Detroit City FC and FC United supporter movement in a different way.
