envisagement

Example Sentences

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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 The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

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 The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

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 The Red Planet by Locke, William John

The second of these two general qualifications with which we must credit Mr. Belloc is the fact of his envisagement of the possibility of this war.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright