Sentences with phrase «by flights of fancy»

Though Neil Gaiman's celebrated Newbery winner kicks off in an indubitably horrifying way, it is overall a warmhearted work buoyed by flights of fancy.

III control over federal court jurisdiction would not, by any flight of fancy, permit Congress to control proceedings in state courts.

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Keane was too intelligent — a tactician in the body of a street fighter — to over-play or go on the kind of flights of fancy demanded by some players» egos, but when his team needed him to create more going forward he could do that too.

The various flights of fancy regarding ambergris were perhaps further inspired by the seemingly miraculous transformation of the material from this fresh state — fecal, soft, dense, and jet black on the outside and dark brown inside — to the aged white, porous, and faintly sweet - smelling chunks.

Thistle Diary: Future hopes, flights of fancy and glue sniffing — Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Directed by Ivan Reitman, who after years of whiz - bang entertainments like Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop now reveals an unexpectedly gentle side, this agreeable flight of fancy features Kevin Kline in a dual role.

The opening 40 minutes or so, as Hoffman's slumped sad - sack is abandoned by his wife (Catherine Keener) and fumbles with a box - office worker (Samantha Morton), are promising despite the militant moroseness that plagues even the film's most whimsical flights of fancy.

For the Colombian author is closely associated with magical realism, a style of prose popular with Latin American writers, and marked by plotlines grounded in reality offset by surreal flights of fancy.

Ever the chameleon, Haynes (who has made throwback 50's melodramas, glam rock pastiches and high concept Bob Dylan biopics) has set his camera's eye on the world of children, adapting an illustrated book by Brian Selznick, best known for writing the novel that would become Martin Scorsese's flight of fancy, Hugo.

A few flights of fancy don't work too well or don't go anywhere, like Daniel's struggles with masturbation, but by and large this is an all around successful endeavor.

George (Rudd), a corporate type, who hates this job, and his pretty wife, Linda (Aniston), whose latest flight - of - fancy employment endeavor crashes and burns, give up renting and buy a matchbox - sized (micro-loft) in NY's West End, only to find out George's company is under investigation by the FBI and its doors close.

The probability of something like the movie's course of events actually taking place, however, is quickly debunked by NASA astronaut David Scott in a brief «conversation» featurette with him; however, he's just as quick to defend the film's flights of factual fancy in the name of old - fashioned entertainment.

A screwball - tinged heist flick that not so much feeds «eat the rich» feelings which might be surging in the zeitgeist at the moment as offer up a divergent, flight - of - fancy caper for the middle - aged, The Love Punch plays out like a reimagining of The Parent Trap by way of Ocean's Eleven, and minus the kids.

Recounting memories of his family's flight from Warsaw and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy inspired by the map his father buys in the village market.

The pages fly by, and in the two days it took me to read the entire volume, I let myself relax into a dramatic flight of fancy.

However, if your dream is to «break out» and be discovered by thousands (and thousands) of book buyers... or if you have flights of fancy in which you imagine yourself checking your book's Amazon ranking each day, watching the sales figures rise into the the top 100, and higher... then... get out your manuscript, we've got some work to do.

Injustice is a fighting game by Mortal Kombat developers NetherRealm Studios, who pulled their extensive experience of making games where people disembowel each other, into a comic - book flight of fancy where Batman dislocates his own knee over an arbitrary dispute.....

The show will range from the fastidious copies of celebrated artist photos by Dan Fischer and Mark Flores, to the libidinous eloquence of Carroll Dunham, to the fantastic flights of imaginative fancy by Kirsten Deirup, John Kleckner, and Steve diBenedetto.

Just as startling, the celebrity architect Richard Meier, billed as having designed the perpetually idiosyncratic Gmurzynska booth («They always get something wrong; the colour of the carpet, the hanging, the lighting,» was one overheard comment), was parked there by the Kabinett exhibiting a selection of collages he has made over 50 years while sitting on aeroplanes (that the theme is vaginas suggests flights of inordinate fancy).

Robert's colour is vitiated by an unhappy blend of pseudo-science, mysticism emanating from Apollinaire's flights of fancy, and naturalistic thinking, and a surfeit of ideas incapable of pictorial realisation.

As we waited at the glamour Canberra Airport terminal (no joke, it's very fancy) for our flight we had a bit of an oooh - errrr moment as a very ancient John Howard tottered off the plane, followed by Bob Hawke in a wheelchair.

Flights of fancy were on display in Barbara Westbrook's dramatic entry hall and foyer, where a pair of Tom Corbin's bronze sculptures — illuminated by paintings from Pryor Fine Art — draw the eyes upward to the sweeping staircase, and porcelain butterflies (hand - imprinted with varying patterns of antique lace) appear to be flying toward the daylight - lit oculus above.