Sentences with phrase «flights of fancy on»

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.

It's a flight of fancy on her part,» Quinn said of Nixon's campaign announcement.

Said Quinn to the NY Post: «It's a flight of fancy on her part.

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, 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.

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

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?

«I've been with Jeremy the whole time as a Labour member of Parliament and he never went off on to one of these flights of fancy.

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.

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.

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.

Still, I wanted to be one of those fancy people who did a full - on spa treatment on a plane, so on a recent flight to Iceland (casual), I decided to do just that.

Save where you can (on flights, length of trip, etc.) and splurge on a few treats like a fancy dinner or a beautiful hotel.

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.

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'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.

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.

Pitt, unable to help himself, starts to conduct one of his flights of fancy around Sue Ann, telling her he's a secret agent on an undercover mission.

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.

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.

Flights of fancy also imbued Nguyen's previous feature Rebelle, which premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, where Congolese newbie Rachel Mwanza won best actress, before going on to nab an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.

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.

Allowing her flights of fancy — yet eager to keep her feet on the ground — are Raven's parents, Victor and Tonya.

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.

Yet for all the emphasis on engineering and efficiency, BMW did find room for some whimsical flights of fancy.

But both understood how important it was for me to go on those flights of fancy that took me to other places and even to other worlds.

Art is intended to inspire us and take us away on flights of fancy, so off we go!

You add up the costs — the flight, the margaritas poolside, the fancy resorts on the beach; all of a sudden your dream of paradise stays just that: a dream.

Business class seats on international flights are often 3 - 5x more expensive (or even more) than economy class seats, and first - class seats on the fancy flights that have three classes of service are often another 3 - 5x more expensive than the business - class seats.

Food and flight atendant service was average but I slept comfortably for 10 out of 15 hours and the rest was spent on a fancy 12 inch IFE system.

Delta's international fleet is NOT equipped with wi - fi, so while you might get a ride on one of Delta's fancy B777's across the country, you won't be able to log on if it's the first or last leg of an international flight.

Soutine was an expressionist head to toe; Neel adulterates her expressionism with heavy doses of reality, visionary flights of fancy, and something bordering on the schizy.

Ojih Odutola has constructed a complex, episodic body of work, based on acute observations and imaginary flights of fancy.

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).

The exhibition brought together a selection of Kilimnik's new and historical works from the past three decades, evoking the history of painting through the construction of fantastical narratives which drew on a rich pastiche and personal flights of fancy.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

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.