Sentences with phrase «flights of fantasy of»

A «hypermedium» capable of accommodating almost any sensibility — from the physicality and presence of installed sculpture to the exotic flights of fantasy of the MTV format — video has played a vital role in contemporary art for more than 30 years now.

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It brands accusations brought against the 50 - year - old from North Carolina as an «absurd collection of anonymous accusations, flights of fantasy, and random character assassination».

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.

This picture of himself can be maintained only by longer flights into the reality - denying world of alcoholic fantasy.

The Philosopher's Flight is a fun, creative blend of historical fiction and fantasy.

Not sure why anyone would get carried away on flights of fantasy that would or could happen — it won't.

Reading books would have to be the ultimate flight of fantasy into another world.

Men consider under real sexuality not a super short mini-skirt but a maxi skirt with a side cut to the thigh that opens the female leg only for a moment when she moves and it gives vent to the flight of fantasy.

Under the splendid direction of Robert Zemeckis, who also co-authored the screenplay with Bob Gale, Back to the Future is a joyous flight into the domain of a teen - ager «s fantasy.

There are people who don't take to the ending of The Florida Project, when the movie breaks with the reality it has been hewing to for close to two hours — a reality that has finally become unbearable — and escapes into a heartbreakingly close - at - hand flight of fantasy.

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.

It's a flight of hard - body fantasy served up with a healthy dose of self - mockery and some slick action sequences.

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.

As with Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki takes us on a strange flight of fantasy with this adventure centred around two young children.

Hayao Miyasaki's PONYO is a sweet - natured flight of fantasy that lacks any real sense of conflict or danger.

It's not a flight of fantasy in the film, because Christine (Saoirse Ronan), who prefers to go by her given name — as in, the one she arbitrarily gave to herself — «Lady Bird,» spends the rest of the semester with a bright, pink cast on her arm.

Insert some graphic violence into the piece too, maybe, undercut the format every few minutes to randomly go off on flights of fantasy.

Borrowing liberally from the likes of Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead, the film follows an awkward manga illustrator - with a diligent love of skeet shooting and prone to flights of fantasy - who finds himself amidst a full - blown zombie apocalypse.

Soon, they will be virtually winging their way to Brazil on a fantasy flight aboard their handcrafted plane, culminating two and a half months of preparation for the role - playing exercise as part of a yearlong study of South America.

As is always the case with these flights of fantasy, money has to be no object.

Mercedes «Vision» vehicles are primarily flights of fantasy for the brand, created to generate hype, and hint at design cues that will inform the brand's design language for decades to come, rather than years.

But this is no hare - brained, impulsive flight of fantasy.

Nell, like her great - aunt Gert, possesses psychic gifts, which her grandfather scoffingly dismisses as «flights of fantasy.»

As a result, I might not be making the best plans from a marketing perspective (I am giving away stories for free on Wattpad after all, and I don't think the cover of «A Flight of Marewings» looks like any traditionally published fantasy book released in the last five years).

Her new epic fantasy novel, A Flight of Marewings, tells the adventure of a duke's illegitimate daughter who must stop her father's murderers — by taming a dangerous monster.

Soar through the skies of a fantasy world, in this visually stunning, flight - based action game!

«I love all the science details mixed with fantasy in Wish You Weren't — just the kinds of flights - of - science - fancy I wish I had as child!»

On my way to a recent flight, while I was frantically putting my shoes back on among a pushy crowd in that tiny space past the scanning machine, my mind began to wander from its immediate train of thought (which, at that moment, included a fantasy involving my shoe coming into contact with the person's head behind me) to one that was slightly more peaceful and productive: How can the process of flying be improved outside of the plane?

To make transportation possible, the aircraft had to be taken apart piece by piece, cut in half, and finally ferried to Port Quepos — 3 miles from Costa Verde — where we put it back together for it's last flight of fantasy.

If you've ever wanted to explore a long - lost city deep in the jungle, Destinations Magazine recommends that you visit Belize, an exotic land just a short flight from the United States where you can live out all of your Indiana Jones fantasies while exploring the ancient world of the Maya.

The work intercuts these with Google street views, weaving together fantasies of fight / flight, and the post / colonial in diaspora.

The art world is a realm of productive fictions, flights of fantasy, and all - around legerdemain, where value springs from belief and profound truths are often found via circuitous paths.

Removed from their narrative contexts, the repetitive movements produce a hypnotizing and exhausting an / aesthetics of weightlessness, speaking to fantasies of literal and metaphorical flight.

In its recent contemporary redux, it has appeared as a private space or withdrawal to the imagination, an illusion or a flight of fantasy.

Atlas» fascination with «narrative, psychology, dance, and flights of fantasy,» is manifested in this dynamic videodance musical.

There is absolutely no way that a nuclear power plant could be secretly built on the old Durban airport site, as some people on some Alice in Wonderland flight of fantasy have claimed.

It is at best a flight of fantasy, conjecture, and make believe.

Common reactions are: reawakened dependency needs that may be expressed through old forms of acting out (regression) or the development of new adjustment problems (Rose & Fatout, 2003), forms of flight that range from avoidance to running away (I'll leave you first)(Malekoff, 1997); devaluation of the staff and the program (Meeks, 1971) and even self - destructive fantasies and behaviour (Meeks, 1971).