Sentences with 'imagining'
Example sentences and phrases with the word imagining and other words derived from it.
• « What the Victorian elite feared more than anything else was that the working class would somehow overwhelm them, through a communist revolution. They tended to fear a concomitant national decline, sometimes even imagining that Western civilisation itself had reached its apex and was doomed to degenerate. »
• « Einstein came up with the idea of relativity by imagining a lift falling because its cable has broken. If a beam of light is passed horizontally through this lift, in the time it takes to pass through the car, the far end of the car has already moved downwards, so that to an outside observer, the beam of light appears to follow a curved path. In other words, gravity bends the light. »
• « For other researchers, should this happen - which they doubt in the absence of evidence - it would only be a transmutation to another state of matter, a kind of evolution of the universe itself, which would not imply its destruction. But imagining an ever-expanding cosmos with matter disintegrating or transforming is not exactly encouraging. »