Sentences with phrase «flight of fancy»

The smaller your business, the more prone to these types of flights of fancy you are.

Second, it allows for flights of fancy about the shape of the new and perfect world.

At a time of great terrestrial conflict, it has inspired contemporary artists to engage in fascinating speculation, dark nostalgia, and optimistic flights of fancy about living above and beyond the earth.

Others play with the map's commitment to truth by plotting invented worlds and charting imaginative flights of fancy.

This year's cash crop ranges from flights of fancy to funny, but this is just the beginning.

Before you consider flights of fancy, though, consider whether there are real and concrete reasons she doesn't want to use the potty.

But the 4C is a quirky delight reserved for occasional flights of fancy.

The evening ended with a delightful flight of fancy.

But these youthful flights of fancy, with their imagined parallel realities, resonate with an increasingly prominent theme in modern science — the possibility of worlds lying beyond the one we know.

Our gift guide wasn't just a futuristic flight of fancy.

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.

For those who are regular readers of my material, you know that every so often I engage in flights of fancy believing that I may actually understand something about real - world economics.

Follow Hayley and her foodie tastes and other flights of fancy on Pinterest and Instagram.

I believed this to be the way movies naturally were, unaware then that I was poised at the cusp of a decade of filmmaking that would redefine fantasy and science - fiction, setting precedents for the genre with films like Back to the Future and Predator, E.T., and Blade Runner, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile — the well was as deep for flights of fancy in the Eighties as it was for incomparable character - driven paranoia in the Seventies.

Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as flights of fancy.

Featuring an incredible ensemble cast — including Mathieu Amalric, Jean - Paul Roussillon, Emmanuelle Devos, Melvil Poupaud, and Chiara Mastroianni — A Christmas Tale is told in the emotionally unhinged register Desplechin does best, mixing storybook flights of fancy with genuine, heartbreaking drama.

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.

Not only do kids enjoy the silliness of such flights of fancy, but you're encouraging them to think creatively.

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.

This Rolodex of family photographs, which she discovers quite at random, is the starting point for a humorous discussion about airport security and also some imaginative flights of fancy where she manages to compare the discarding of the Rolodex to her decision to leave her first husband.

As far as the fantasy half - human / half - god (or other «spirit»); those tales are from the fertile human imagination, like fire - breathing dragons, centaurs, boogeymen and numerous other flights of fancy, without a scintilla of evidence of fact.

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.

They embark on wild flights of fancy, single - handedly coming up with a cure for AIDS, a new method for genomic sequencing, and the key to human evolution before you've even finished your morning coffee.

Brought back to life for a modern era, this wallpaper will inspire your own flights of fancy as you work.

A dream come true for their designers and engineers, such cars frequently indulge flights of fancy usually considered much too costly to be offered for mainstream production.

An inspired flight of fancy, an oddly poignant examination of the creative process, a rumination on adaptation (orchids to their environment, books to the screen and misfits like Charlie to life) and, in its ultimate irony, a story in which our hero learns a life - altering lesson.

That film is like painting — context can certainly enhance a certain line of thinking, but the job of gleaning pleasure comes from imaginative flights of fancy more than blindly accepting statements as fact.

Of course such flights of fancy ran contrary to Josef Stalin's consolidation of power and repression of freedom.

But Whitehead's approach is no mere flight of fancy into the stratosphere of thought.

ONE of the most entertaining things about Newt Gingrich, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, is his tendency to engage in flights of fancy regarding technology.

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.

But damned if this premise doesn't bring out a surprising discipline and rigor in the veteran filmmaker, as well as some offbeat moments (and in one hallucinogenic sequence, a literal flight of fancy) that expand on his lifelong thematic, spirit - versus - flesh preoccupations.

There are reworked existing maps, alternate views of reality, charted imaginary flights of fancy, and the occasional rejection of a traditional map altogether.

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.

Dartmouth College is at the moment a showcase for 430 pounds of human hair, a soaring flight of fancy that has an ethereal beauty despite its size.

And it probably won't shock you to learn that studio wants the movie to be «gritty» and «grounded,» because nobody expected a Scorsese - produced Joker movie to be a Wes Anderson-esque flight of fancy.

The final episode centered around Draper's three phone calls to the only three women in his life who have stuck with him through his frequent flights of fancy.

One of his errant flights of fancy, beyond his religious delusion, is that he claims that global warming is not happening.

Even if making them starry - eyed about middle management were remotely feasible, why would we want to encourage our boys in colossal, parti - colored, cape - swishing flights of fancy and our girls in the Protestant work ethic?

The smoothest white hazelnut praline is a delicious flight of fancy, with a fine, sugary - sweet brittle edge.

That's the way it was decades ago when air circus pilots flew deadly competitions — and that's the way it is still as sports like Bevo Howard (preceding page) take to the skies and perform flights of fancy

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.

Libration points are mathematical fictions, geometric fantasies, topological flights of fancy.

In particular, you can scarcely avoid reflecting on the age - old problem of how to tell the difference between a genuine anomaly and a well - argued flight of fancy.

a mildly amusing flight of fancy for the family crowd, is far better for its penguins than its Popper.

Luhrmann's aesthetic flights of fancy and the show's fertile premise count for a lot.

Besson's movies are never dull, though, and that alone makes his loony flights of fancy and pretentious stabs at deeper meaning between the shoot - outs tolerable.