He did not want to be sociable for the sake of being nice with those who were envisaging some use for him.
Now in the little casual sex he had, eroticism found itself impaled in envisaging exploited frailties and male aggression behind the façade of the beer and chip gaiety of prostitutes and clients sitting around stages of dancing girls.
Plastic images of his own making and shifting are his sole means of envisaging eternal principles and ultimate substances, things ideal and potential, which can never become phenomenal in their own persons.
To the ideal function ofenvisaging the absent, memory and reflection will add (since they exist and constitute a new complication in being) the practical function of modifying the future.
For we wish to make a distinction, in order to maintain our loyalty to the good, and not to eviscerate the idea of reason by emptying it of its essential meaning, which is action addressed to the good and thoughtenvisaging the ideal.
The function of envisaging reality, ever since Parmenides and Heraclitus, had been universally attributed to the intellect.
There is a manifest advantage in such definite envisagingof the objectives involved in courses of action.
In fact, especially in a detailed tactical estimate, these considerations may have been predominant in envisaging the courses of action.
In listing his courses, the commander can add to clarity of thought and of expression by visualizing the objective embodied in each course and by envisaging also, the action, expressed in proper detail, for its attainment.
Few novelists of any race have beaten this wandering Scot in the power of representing character and envisaging it: and there can hardly be successful characterization without this allied power of creating atmosphere.
But Turner and Watteau and Monticelli modified his style, changed his way of envisaging the landscape.
Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.
Accordingly it drops the pretense of envisaging the universe and devotes itself to its more modest task of applying its standards to a particular item that needs to be remade.
What the voyager thus finds himself envisaging shares by that very fact in the expansion of the sense that brought him there.
Here as with the Mare Acidalium we certainly seem to be envisaging cases of matutinal frost melted by midday under the sun's rays.
It may be that while we here seem to be envisaging cloud we are in reality looking at hoar-frost.
But he contrived to win the President over to his way of envisagingmany Oriental questions.
She seemed during these last days to be envisaging Julien with a kind of malicious joy.
Life was no longer boring, he was envisaging everything from a new point of view, he had no longer any ambition.
His main business is intercourse with life, and also the envisaging of life rather "by meditation" as Coleridge says, "than by observation.
Poring and smiling into the fire, she looked like a Sibyl envisaging the fate of men, not concerned in it, yet absorbed, interested in the play, not at all in the persons.
But, as for Mr. Senhouse himself, at this time of envisaging of ways I don't believe that he entered her head.
