Sentences with phrase «flights of fancy about»

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.

The Apostate (Grade: B --RRB-, Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj's underwhelming follow - up to A Useful Life, is another flight of fancy about a somewhat schlubby man of principle.

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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?

In episode 313, the third season finale, Penn and Teller diligently set about debunking the paranormal world of ghosts, spooks and phantoms - and those who claim they can detect or exorcise such flights of fancy.

Aronofsky, however, has no such pre-approval for his latest flight of fancy; with only a trio of past performance bids to suggest the actors» branch is at least aware of his films, we still have no idea how the Academy really feels about him or his craft.

But Pitt is also is fantasizer on a grand scale, something that bothers his case worker who warns him about cutting the flights of fancy out of his life.

The Losers» Club he's assembled is stellar across the board; there's nothing about these kids that seems fake or affected, to the point that even when the film starts to fly off into more extreme flights of fancy, they manage to keep it firmly grounded.

It's rare for a film in any genre to valorize writing poetry and literacy, and rarer still for a film essentially about nothing to sport so many moments of genuinely fruitful observation in its interpersonal interactions, which makes the picture's flights of fancy feel the more unnecessary.

An animated man with a suitably fluid way with words, Vanderbilt talked about what lured him away from his usual cinematic flights of fancy, as I termed them, to the real - life drama of Mary Mapes versus CBS news.

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

This first act is a tight piece of storytelling about the way Briony's flights of fancy become the fodder for harmful gossip mongering and a concise look at class structure and the prejudices that arise from it.