The primordial nature is God's envisagement of all possibilities; in the idiom of Leibniz, it is God's knowledge of all possible worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
She was no longer so buoyantly superficial in her envisagement of life, and the big things reacted on her in a way which would previously have been impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
So long as men are subject to the exclusive habit of condemning and praising and analyzing and classifying, they are incapable of a free envisagement and expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
There was something impressive in the restrained passion of Elisabeth's speech, a certain primitive grandeur in her envisagement of the relationship of mother and son. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Mr. Belloc is the fact of his envisagement of the possibility of this war. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
And yet, paramount in her envisagement of such a tragedy was the idea of a public proclamation of the cause of England in which he died. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
I have devoted the week to the envisagement of things, and while I lay awake last night the solution came to me as something final and irrevocable. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
England, his own poignant sense of possession in her and by her, his own intolerable aching at the heart at his envisagement of her enormously beset. From Wordnik.com. [If Winter Comes] Reference
Matthew Arnold would have applauded the envisagement of literature as "criticism of life," but would have deplored the sacrifice of sweetness to gain increased intensity of light. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
In his steady envisagement of the horror that envelops the stupendous universe of science, in his power to evoke and revive old myths and superstitions, and by their glamour to cast a ghostly light of vanished suns over the darkness of the abyss, he was the most. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories] Reference
The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Björnson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems. From Wordnik.com. [Bjornstjerne Bjornson] Reference
What day did you feel it to be in your, um, envisagement? ". From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
The burden of all this tendencious matter has caused his art to suffer at times, no doubt, but his inspiration has retained throughout much of the marvellous freshness of the earlier years, and the genius of the poet still flashes upon us from a prosaic environment, sometimes in a lovely lyric, more frequently, however, in the turn of a phrase or the psychological envisagement of some supreme moment in the action of the story or the drama. From Wordnik.com. [Bjornstjerne Bjornson] Reference
(Demosthenes 'foreign policy; but by that time it has really become an essential factor in his envisagement of the world about him, in which Greece and Macedonia are polar opposites, irreconcilable morally, spiritually, intellectually. ". From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
Remained his envisagement of. From Wordnik.com. [If Winter Comes] Reference
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