Sentences with phrase «flights of fancy in»

Though geometry can seem dry and mute in comparison to the flights of fancy in gestural abstraction, the artists who pursued meaning in its rigorous shapes found it anything but.

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.

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.

The movie goes on some flights of fancy in following this to its improbable conclusion but, although one might deem Besson's resolution to be preposterous, it's never uninteresting.

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In my wilder flights of fancy, I wonder what creative means the government could employ to actually change the ownership structure of traditional media.

But in a normally functioning political party, a president — who has to stand for reelection before a national audience — serves as a restraining force for congressional party members, who mostly have safe seats and can afford to indulge in ideological flights of fancy.

, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR. SCIENTIST.

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?

Sanogo was a ridiculous wild egotistical punt and we lost 12 mill in wages on my flight of fancy.

Ok, he's over the years, he's not been able to meet our exacting standards and perform the feats of old in recent times which were sometimes due to his own flights of fancy and picking inadequate teams and players to fulfil the quest and others were down to others around him not giving him the budget to go wild and buy the premiership...........

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.

With Chelsea not having won any of their last four matches played on a Monday in the top flight, then they may fancy their chances of picking up an away three points to start their campaign.

Free specialty coffees, juices, and yummy snacks... free Internet on snazzy Macs in the fancy departure lounge... happy flight attendants in jaunty uniforms... Ah yes — but these are business travelers — just how would a family of four (flying with an infant and preschooler) fare on a boutique airline with amenities tailored to business travelers?

Here the author indulges in what your reviewer thinks is a flight of fancy.

It's a flight of fancy on her part,» Quinn said of Nixon's announcement Monday that she would take on Cuomo in September's Democratic primary.

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.

• Flight of fancy: we referred to Lynn Rothschild as creator of a biodegradable drone; in fact she led the...

• Flight of fancy: we referred to Lynn Rothschild as creator of a biodegradable drone; in fact she led the team that created it (15 November, p 21).

Tōhoku Sky Village is not just an architect's flight of fancy: one municipality in the affected region is making moves towards building one in its locality and others could follow.

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.

How to navigate a season in which the trends span head - to - toe black leather, flight - of - fancy embroideries, and mod X-ray optics?

It makes the viewer willing to excuse the film's flights of fancy, like a fiery action sequence in a hidden room where escape follows a familiar movie formula, or a denouement that feels a bit padded.

But I haven't even mentioned the movie's grandest grown - up flight of fancy: Namely that if you somehow found yourself immersed in the world of your young - adult children, your offspring would not only tolerate your presence, but actually listen to your hard - earned wisdom and want to spend loads and loads of time with you.

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.

The result is less science fiction than a metaphor drawn from it: a peculiar family portrait whose characters, though all lost in their own space, never stray far from their immediate earthbound environs (except in flights of fancy).

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.

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.

In tying these flights of fancy together, Allers has considerably reworked the narrative wraparound with mixed results.

That's the sort of action that many teen movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.

The first edition of David Thomson's magnum opus A Biographical Dictionary of Film came out in 1975, and it was filled with a young man's strong opinions, flights of fancy, sensitive tributes to people like Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Carl Dreyer, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, and surprisingly forceful condemnations of such citadels as John Ford and Frank Capra.

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.

For a kids» picture, A Wrinkle In Time is relatively nuanced and idiosyncratic, with enough honest moments to ground its flights of fancy.

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.

You either see it as a rumination on art and the creative process through the prism of this kook who makes a bad movie, but at least he still makes something, or you can look at it as a flight of fancy where a bunch of famous people do a shot - for - shot parody of a bad movie and throw in some window dressing to make it seem like a fully fledged movie.

It's an interesting flip - flop, and puts Clooney in a position a female character from the 1970s might have been in — an Erica Jong-esque flight of fancy that is, ultimately, a wake - up call.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight 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.

Tonto is revealed to be a man who is not quite right in the head according to his Comanche brethren, and given to flights of fancy.

Flights of speculative fancy and selective «filling in» are indicted in the novel (the act of reading itself is indicted, truth be told), while voyeurism, it stands to reason, is indicted in the film version.

JoBeth Williams» ex-wife has two extended scenes, one where she gets in a fight with her father, and we learn his overbearing protectiveness manipulated her to divorce Shannon, and a scene in a motel where Shannon attempts to win his wife back; and we get insight into the way his mind works, his flights of fancy that have no relation to the inherent problems of their relationship.

Here and there, amid the haze, one catches a glimpse of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye; maybe even a glimmer of The Big Lebowski in the film's wackier flights of fancy.

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.

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.

It «Äôs extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now, which is why, for all its flights of fancy, worlds within worlds and agonies upon agonies, it comes down hard for living in the world with real, breathing, embracing bodies pressed against other bodies.

Ruby Sparks starts in earnest with a flight of fancy: A writer not only manages to create life just from the effort of his imagination and the punching of keys on his typewriter but also brings into existence the girl of his dreams.

In her own approach to writing and reading, Feinberg is clearly attuned to children's love of making things up, imagining that animals can talk, turning empty boxes into special places for stories that flow from children's daydreams and flights of fancy.

As Joe DeMatio noted, the FJ Cruiser debuted at a time when Toyota could afford to indulge in flights of fancy.

«This concept goes beyond a flight - of - fancy design exercise; it is the next proof point in Infiniti's concept - to - production approach.