He defined it as: «That bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered
imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»
In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that «exists solely in the fevered
imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»
Rabin states that the MPDG is «that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered
imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered
imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.
Not exact matches
Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that
of an intense spiritual nature with a keen
imagination and a desperately
sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis
of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering
of the Greek version
of the Jewish scriptures; (c).
Through four decades
of development
of exquisitely
sensitive instrumentation — pushing the capacity
of our
imaginations — we are now able to glimpse cosmic processes that were previously undetectable.
Part
of being highly
sensitive is having a complex inner life and an active
imagination.
Ruby is literally a construct
of Calvin's tortured
sensitive imagination, which allows the film to flirt with the potential
of critiquing male wish fulfilment in the form
of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which Ruby conforms to wholeheartedly.
Although perhaps austerity shouldn't be imposed upon the
imagination of an artist creation, I do think it is important to unite and focus our attention to the reach an artwork can have and be
sensitive to the times.
«Beyond the technical virtuosity, an unbridled
imagination and ground - breaking artistic collaborations, Gaultier offers an open - minded vision
of society, a crazy,
sensitive, and sassy world in which everyone can assert his or her own identity through a unique «fusion couture.