Sentences with phrase «year of magical thinking»

Actress Kathleen Turner discusses The Year of Magical Thinking, a play based on Joan Didion's 2005 memoir.

«Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.»?

Inevitably compared to Marley & Me, Dog Years has more in common with The Year of Magical Thinking.

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion.

2011 in cinema could be called, with apologies to Joan Didion, the year of magical thinking.

When writing of her husband's death in her book The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion said «the» instant, and in Joan Didion's wake nothing else seems right.

She adapted The Year of Magical Thinking for a Scott Rudin - produced play starring Vanessa Redgrave.

My favorite book of all time is «Anne of Green Gables» but my grown - up favorite book is «The Year of Magical Thinking» by Joan Didion!

Have you read Joan Didion's remarkable memoir, «The Year of Magical Thinking»?

Have you read Joan Didion's book, The Year of Magical Thinking?

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However, Halligan's compensation ($ 18,000 / year toward conference attendance, $ 2,500 / year FSA, full health insurance with paid premiums, 30 days of PTO, to name a few) sounds more like magical thinking than solutions that could actually work in start - ups.

Dear Santa: You probably don't get Christmas letters from an entire province, but this year we hope you'll think of adding B.C. to your magical journey.

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

I'm sure our ancestors of 1000 years ago would look at our wireless technology of today and think it were magical or even miraculous.

I will always trust an atheist in office over a «believer» — at least their policies will be guided by reason and critical thinking, not magical thinking and thousands of years of mythology.

I couldn't resist appointing rose as a component of this frozen yogurt for two reasons — for one, rhubarb and rose has always sounded like the most magical combination that I've been thinking about for years, and secondly, I've had some beautiful dried roses sitting in my pantry without getting any use for too long.

I think most fans feel the same way — there is a certain thrill of believing that this year could be a magical one.

The 29 - year old added that Palace are well aware of the possibility of relegation and revealed that his side are now targeting the magical 40 points before thinking about putting their foot off the pedal.

All thoughts and opinions are my own ** I don't know if it's because of the time of year (I'm addicted to Fall) or if it's Halloween rapidly approaching, but the moment I looked through our album from our most recent family photo session with Kaitlyn Scruggs Photography, one word came to mind — magical.

Part of this has to do with what's called magical thinking, which is the same phenomenon that makes a two - year - old insist on only using a pink spoon (because food won't taste as good with another utensil) or results in her refusing baths since she is quite certain that children can disappear down that drain.

All of this governor's magical thinking — with this scheme and so many others that have flopped over the past seven years — is designed to avoid the obvious: New York needs to cut taxes, which I will do as governor.»

It's taken years to open to this magical language of the soul, traveling through the fears within my mind thinking that I didn't know enough theory to write my own music.

Hyde Park is magical this time of year, though I love it during summertime, I think fall in the park is so beautiful, especially when the weather is as great as it was this weekend.

This magical time of the year when they turn on the lights in the center of the city, the time when you simply can't pass by a Christmas market without buying something, the time when I go mad on buying decorations and sweets and the last but not least the time when I have to think about my Christmas party outfit.I love dressing up on Christmas, but don't get me wrong, by dressing up I mean putting on some ankle boots with track sole, a red 60s inspired dress and a super cozy oversized coat.

Hello my Beauties, with one of the most magical nights of the year approaching, i thought it would be fun to participate in a Christmas related challenge.

There is something truly magical about it, and even though I already shared Part 1 and Part 2 of our Christmas Home Tour for the year, I thought I would open our doors once again to show you what the house looks like at nighttime.

This magical time of the year when they turn on the lights in the center of the city, the time when you simply can't pass by a Christmas market without buying something, the time when I go mad on buying decorations and sweets and the last but not least the time when I have to think about my Christmas party outfit.

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An accountability system that expects all students to achieve the same standard of success in a single year regardless of their starting point is magical thinking.

Well, at this point, all of Duncan's «turnaround» schools seem to have blended into one magical place we might call «Dramatically Better Elementary,» but in this case we think he might be talking about Sherman, the turnaround model for 2007 (Chicago has a new model every year).

which I think was a huge element of evo's own best drivers cars of all time feature about ten years ago including that magical old fashioned bonus called steering feel, those with it did exceptionally well... please evo, you are a magazine written by drivers for drivers.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

Whether you are more likely to swap investment tips with friends at neighborhood parties or with bridge partners at the Palm Beach Country Club, you're no less immune from the same type of magical thinking that led otherwise smart people to believe Madoff could churn out consistently high returns year after year.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Robert, if my wishes were granted and my magical thinking made real, the world in which we reside would of necessity be different from the way it is, so as to be made capable of supporting our unsustainable consumption, production and propagation activities, the colossal scale of which is threatening to engulf the Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

You can probably draw some general conclusions, but be careful about thinking you've established the magical legal strategy after one year of practice.

But that magical time of the year without exams or assignment deadlines will come around sooner than you think, and it's also the ideal...

But that magical time of the year without exams or assignment deadlines will come around sooner than you think, and it's also the ideal time to do something a bit different and build your skills away from the University.

When we think holidays, we think magical time of year for children.

Preschool years are a time of egocentricity and «magical» thinking — they believe their thoughts or behaviors can cause or undo the loss.

If you have always wanted a crystal chandelier hanging above your dining room table, I can't think of a better time to install one then at this magical Christmas time of year.