Sentences with phrase «for flights of fancy»

Known for his flights of fancy, he had to take two connecting fancy flights just to get here in time to write this bio.

Ghosn is not known for flights of fancy, and the 2011 Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet certainly qualifies as one.

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.

For all its flights of fancy the Encore mini-series is not entirely silly or even half bad.

If you're looking for a flight of fancy, Edinburgh is the perfect vacation spot for your clan.

Not exact matches

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.

These apparently impersonal methods seem to allow for a minimum of subjective involvement, of taking things for granted, and of flights of fancy.

Tuck into the bar for a flight of à la carte fancy.

I would probably vote for 15 of them right now, but that's subject to my whims and flights of fancy.

But if you can, let your child live for a bit with the reminders of his flights of fancy.

But if and when you can, let your toddler live for a bit with the reminders of his flights of fancy.

This flight of fancy, he later said, sowed the seed for special relativity.

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.

a mildly amusing flight of fancy for the family crowd, is far better for its penguins than its Popper.

For the soul of Gondry's work, it seems to me, is neither its soaring flights of visual fancy nor its sometimes crude slapstick, but rather its pained understanding of a generation hopelessly tongue - tied when it comes to matters of the heart.

not sure how much Wenders directed & how much is Coppola, but it uses the soundstage for flight - of - fancy elements and great camerawork; Forrest is great

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.

They have left the childhood flights of fancy behind and as a movie goer, I'm not sure that is such a good thing for this franchise.

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.

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.

Not just ordinary daydreaming, mind you - forget those flights of fancy that might take you to the Dog & Duck for a mid-afternoon pint, for Mitty's peregrinations take him to the windswept corners of the Earth to tackle tempests, grand adventure and deadly spy business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Make sure that the members of peer review panels are not part of an old - boy network of professional innovators who are likely to take care of their friends and share their biases and their penchant for rhetorical flights of pedagogical fancy.

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.

But the 4C is a quirky delight reserved for occasional flights of fancy.

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

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A dream come true for their designers and engineers, such cars frequently indulge flights of fancy usually considered much too costly to be offered for mainstream production.

Through the years of bristly bullying, though, Shannon finally finds real friends and gains a better appreciation for her own strengths, such as her imaginative creativity, which Pham illustrates in vivid, comically over-the-top 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.

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As for bird owners, comedies like «Orange is the New Black» are more their flight of fancy.

Good news for anyone who fancies a bit of winter sun without breaking the bank, because this winter sees the introduction of four weekly low cost flights from Luton to Israel — three times to Tel Aviv, and once to Eilat.

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.

However, if you rather fancy blowing things up in an awesome helicopter to a pulse - pounding hard rock soundtrack, chances are you'll be in for a ton of fun with this obscenely OTT arcade flight sim.

It speaks not to the flights of fancy of a rumor - monger, but to a comprehensive plan for cost - effectiveness and backwards - compatibility.

One thing to forward to: Fischer has a track record of demolishing or otherwise mutating his exhibition spaces with his perverse flights of fancy, and for this show he has enlisted a «multitude» of volunteers to help him realize a large - scale clay installation, and «no previous knowledge of working with clay is necessary.»

Dartmouth College is at the moment a showcase for 430 pounds of human hair, a soaring flight of fancy that has an ethereal beauty despite its size.

What this meant in practice was a low - key, somewhat retiring show, with a downsized rostet (eighty - one artists, as compared with 101 in 2006) spread over two venues (the museum and the nearby Park Avenue Armory) and with none of the flights of curatorial fancy that informed «Day for Night.»

Unable to afford college, she married early and, in a flight of romantic fancy, she and her husband, Bob Jachens, struck out for Alaska to live as pioneers.

So when the night sky's inky embrace drops endless dots that invite flights of fancy, each blip unknown to personal experience, your moonstruck brain and your skookum heart gleefully howl for your attention.

Davey's inclination to fold her own images as letter - envelopes sending them through the mail extends intimacy across time and space as a tactile flight of fancy and a restless search for communion.

What we do claim is that true science has a place for hypotheses, untested theories, flights of fancy of people trying to imagine new and wonderful things, etc. etc..

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.