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"Visionary" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Chaplin was visionary.
Will Apple lose its mojo now that its visionary founder is dead?
My father is a visionary. He always thinks big, and he thinks people can do a lot more than they actually do.
Tom is a visionary.
Thrice round the neck with longing I essayed / to clasp the phantom in a wild delight; / thrice, vainly clasped, the visionary shade / mocked me embracing, and was lost to sight, / swift as a winged wind or slumber of the night.
Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers.
Hanuman Zhang was a Chinese-Californian, reportedly with some Malay blood, who complained that forces "overfreighted" Western cultures and languages around the world; he was a visionary poetic conlanger with a great sense of humour.
The NIAC program is intended to fund visionary ideas that go way beyond things as mundane as going back to the moon or putting a colony on Mars.
William was a visionary leader who revolutionized the textile industry.
One of my favourite things about India is the visionary city of Auroville, created in the 1960s. I wish that China and other countries would aspire to create more visionary cities. I am aware of the Paris-copycat city of Tiāndūchéng in China, complete with the replica of the Eiffel Tower. Fantastic! With 3D printing and AI, city builders around this world will be able to produce more marvellous cities in the future. Imagine that builders will more cheaply opt for Art Nouveau-style architecture and, of course, Metamodernist work. (Art Nouveau is one of my favourite movements.)
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No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind.
I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown— Yet it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, Lion ambition is chain’d down— […]
To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced.
Here Mr. Jackson smiled once more upon the company; and, applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomime (then much in vogue, but now, unhappily, almost obsolete) which was familiarly denominated taking a grinder.
Here frequent, at the viſionary hour, / When muſing midnight reigns or ſilent noon, / Angelic harps are in full concert heard, / And voiced chaunting from the wood-crown’d hill, / The deepening dale, or inmoſt ſilvan glade[…]
a visionary scheme or project
I confeſs, the Merit of this Candour and Condeſcenſion is very much leſſened ; becauſe your Lordſhip hardly leaves us Room to offer our good Wiſhes ; removing all our Difficulties, and ſupplying our Wants, faſter than the moſt viſionary Projector can adjuſt his Schemes.
For seven years [Christopher Columbus] begged persistently for aid, but in vain. He was looked upon as a visionary, and the very boys in the street mocked him as a lunatic. At length he was permitted to lay his plans before a committee of learned men, but only to have them ridiculed, the council dismissing him as a foolish enthusiast.
In a military sense Russia is defenceless, and we all supposed it a proof that they were mere visionaries when they started negotiations by insisting upon not surrendering any Russian territory to the Germans.
Along with the good planners there are lots of wild-eyed visionaries who don’t relate ideas to real-life practicalities.
Jefferson’s intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics.
Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman.
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