Sentences with phrase «flight of imagination»

Case in point: «fact», which apparently means «wild flight of my imagination» to this guy.

The world the artist creates is part fact, part fiction — flights of the imagination rooted in the real history and memories of a place.

Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Throughout, the volume demonstrates how Polke interpreted images of reality rather than reality itself, while also satirizing tendencies in contemporary painting, interrogating the role of the artist as author, dismantling the visual rhetoric of media photography and always embarking upon the most magnificent flights of imagination.

Even though his writings were characterized by often bewildering flights of the imagination, I find no justification for regarding them as inflicted with mental disability.

These were just flights of my imagination.

«The Shape of Water» /» Wonderstruck» /» Downsizing» From three of our finest auteurs, superior flights of imagination on technology and our total failure at verbal communication.

Busby Berkeley's flights of imagination seem to be a good match for the colour and choreography of West Side.

A vital element of Laini Taylor's sweeping, dramatic, exciting new novel is travel in many artfully rendered guises, including flights of imagination via books in an amazing library, a grueling but thrilling road trip to a forgotten city and nocturnal tours of people's dreams.

With its large format and appealing pastel and oil paintings, Sebastian and the Balloon is a perfect choice for story time — and for all young readers ready to undertake their own flights of imagination.

From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears.

Paper transforms into the perfect backdrop for the artists» flights of the imagination across mythical mountain — and cityscapes.

The allure of a stain on a wall, as Leonardo once suggested, can feed extravagant flights of imagination yet it remains a stain on a wall.

Mann's flawed, homemade code and the use of upside down data; Rahmstorf's silly use of made up data from the future, Monnet's bizarre flight of imagination in polar bear land, Jones» Chinese fraud and refusal to share data, Harry Read Me, Briffa's magic tree, Steig's Antarctic smear, the SST wild ass guess, the list just goes on and on and on...

In his brilliantly inscrutable debut, Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends documentary authenticity with wild flights of imagination.

Starting from the profane material of everyday culture, Polke interprets images of reality rather than reality itself, satirizes tendencies in contemporary painting, quesitons the role of the artist as author, breaks down the trivial visual worlds of media photography, always on the most magnificent flights of imagination.

But now, indulge in a flight of imagination.

It can seem as if such tools take all the fun out of the process, forcing every flight of imagination to crash - land in a mountain of paperwork.

Alone on the hill, with the dark sky and the stars above and the discordant world below, the narrator sinks more deeply into a contemplative state and, much like Stapledon's description of the Whiteheadian explorer, proceeds on a panoramic exploration, leaving his mountain top in a flight of imagination while staring at the stars.

During this flight of imagination he finds himself in the grips of an inexplicable religious experience, praising and worshipping the maker of the stars above.

Playing encourages your flights of imagination about what he will be when he grows up, so let it soar.

Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken with tales of the wealthy and powerful — in many ways, he's still a boy, and so caught up in his daydreaming that he doesn't realize how his one - time childhood playmate Djalma (Noelle Adam), now a grown young woman, loves him (even if her merchant father thinks he's a worthless loafer).

It thinks «based on actual events» are words likely to boost the shudder count: instead, they cramp every flight of imagination a haunted - house flick should feel emboldened to make.

Added NYFF Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, «Todd Haynes and Brian Selznick have pulled off something truly remarkable here — a powerful evocation of childhood, with all of its mysteries and terrors and flights of imagination and longings; richly textured re-creations of Manhattan in the»20s and the»70s; and a magical and intricately plotted quest story that builds to a beautiful climax.»

My first favorite book was Up in a Tree, Margaret Atwood's flight of imagination and can - do spirit.

To accentuate the various ways the flight of imagination manifests in the hands of these painters, RJD Gallery curated the show with small groupings for each painter in easy conversation with each other.

My Work is a flight of the imagination, taking place in an uncertain future and inspired by an unknowable past.

Any material remnant, quotidian experience, or quiet personal storm is deserving of a gesture that acts at once as a journalistic record and as a flight of imagination.»

Rhodochrosite Sunrise, Caldera in the Mist, Highlands and Flight of Imagination are a blending of the very abstract brought to life through the use of traditional brush work necessary for the painting to be successful.

As an outsider he was exposed to the extraordinary richness of contemporary German art which ranges from the conceptual rigor of Gerhard Richter to the expressionist style of Georg Baselitz, eventually the matter - of - fact depiction of recognizable events and objects and wild flights of the imagination.

Modern Art & Pop Culture, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France (2011); Paradise Lost, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn (2008); and Flights of Imagination, Museum HR Giger, Gruyères, Switzerland (2006).

The crustal displacement / polar wander fancies of Hapgood are just that: flights of imagination.