At the base of Wells's great visionary exploit is this rational, ultimately scientific attempt to follow "the drift of the current in spite of the eddies," to tease out the potential future consequences of present conditions — not as they might arise in a few years, or even decades, but millennia hence, epochs hence.
Blackwood might have become a botanist or a naturalist, or joined the ranks of the many spiritists and other "visionaries" who exploited a gullible public at the turn of the last century.
His work often pairs visionary architecture with boyhood exploits – beautiful, damned or maybe just dumb.
Theodore Silverstein, a scholar of medieval literature at the University of Chicago whose subjects included Old English poetry and Late Latin visionary apocalypses and whose exploits as an intelligence officer in World War II were only recently revealed, died on Sept. 1.
John F. Kennedy's vow, at the start of the decade, to put a man on the Moon by the end had unleashed not only the ambitions of contractors and technicians, but also the imaginations of filmmakers and television writers, who exploited the visionary dimensions of Kennedy's promise even as NASA scientists and astronauts were sweating the details.
The ultramarathoner's heart - Code blue on the running trail: A feature by Kris Newby on visionary computer designer Mike Nuttall's exploits as an ultramarathoner, despite having severe heart disease.
By now you'd think that every visionary distiller and novelty-minded charlatan would have explored and exploited every possible wrinkle in the whisky-making process.
O'Malley was the consummate politician who exploited his sport's manifest destiny, whether as a visionary or a business opportunist.
The curriculum exploits the pedagogic potential of the design studio as a site of research, visionary speculation and critical inquiry.
It made many things possible, and by the time the visionary Emperor Akbar established the Mughal court in 1556, those possibilities were being assiduously exploited.
Thanks to visionary writers, the readers would care as much about the personal lives of the characters as they would their heroic exploits.
