Sentences with phrase «from flights of fancy»

This year's cash crop ranges from flights of fancy to funny, but this is just the beginning.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Thistle Diary: Future hopes, flights of fancy and glue sniffing — Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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).

That film is like painting — context can certainly enhance a certain line of thinking, but the job of gleaning pleasure comes from imaginative flights of fancy more than blindly accepting statements as fact.

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.

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.

From takeoff to landing, this whacked - out parody is a loopy flight of fancy.

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.

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.

Recounting memories of his family's flight from Warsaw and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy inspired by the map his father buys in the village market.

«Ode to a Butterfly,» Chris Thile Mandolinist Thile from Nickel Creek created this literal flight of fancy to accompany the unpredictable, this - way - and - that flight of butterflies.

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.

The show will range from the fastidious copies of celebrated artist photos by Dan Fischer and Mark Flores, to the libidinous eloquence of Carroll Dunham, to the fantastic flights of imaginative fancy by Kirsten Deirup, John Kleckner, and Steve diBenedetto.

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.

Robert's colour is vitiated by an unhappy blend of pseudo-science, mysticism emanating from Apollinaire's flights of fancy, and naturalistic thinking, and a surfeit of ideas incapable of pictorial realisation.

Now, Dave McGinn finds, researchers are tallying the many benefits — from better social skills to heightened creativity in adulthood — associated with these flights of fancy»

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.