6 sentences with 'envisioned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word envisioned and other words derived from it.
• « In a memorable satire, the American storyteller Fritz Leiber envisioned a future in which rebellious writers - those who refused to be slaves to the "editing machines" - would suffer an unthinkable hell: that of being reduced to a brain detached from the body, with nerve and sensory centres confined to a minimal area, all within an egg-shaped shell. To top it all off, those pitiful ovoids would be designated with derogatory and baleful nicknames, even if one of them was revered as St. Isaac Asimov. »
• « Serbia was a new nation. It had fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, and its political leaders envisioned a role for Serbia like Piedmont had played in Italy: a small kingdom that came to conquer and unite a nation. In this case, the Serbs hoped to conquer and unite the Balkans in a Serb-dominated country. »
• « By 1938, Hitler felt that Germany was sufficiently prepared to sustain a limited war; by 1939 he felt confident that the German war machine was ready for a full-scale effort to seize the space he envisioned for the new Reich. »
• « With this in mind, the legacy of the youth movement was profound. While no country in the Western world witnessed a true political revolution along the lines envisioned by the radicals of the time, there is no doubt that Western culture as a whole became much more accepting of personal freedoms, especially with regard to sexuality, and less puritanical and rigid in general. »
• « In Savannah, the Oglethorpe Plan envisioned a utopia: "an agrarian model of sustenance while maintaining the egalitarian values that keep all men equal." »
• « Jefferson envisioned an "empire of liberty" for white farmers and relied on the argument for expelling blacks from the United States, even if doing so would completely destroy the wealth of the slaveholders in their human property. »