Sentences with phrase «in pure fantasy»

The overtly «studio - built» films of that time were apt to be exercises in pure fantasy — The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1951) and Marguerite de la Nuit (Claude Autant - Lara, 1955) are both good examples.

One thing I have learned, is that Americans are the biggest hypocrites, they have no back bone, they don't believe in reality and are stuck in pure fantasy.

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Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

The quote above is from an article published in The Guardian today by Thomas Frank: Dow dreamers show Trump's war on elites is pure fantasy.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

This is pure fantasy, it is in The Star after all.

The prospect of the 30 - year - old lining up alongside or behind Ibrahimovic may sound appetising when it comes to pure fantasy football but in reality it would be an arrangement with plenty of drawbacks.

«It is pure fantasy that an array of services are made available to people in order to make sure that they don't return to homelessness,» he wrote on Facebook.

Or that their growth figures are pure fantasy, the cuts reduce output but also actually result in increased spending, the debt goes up instead of down, and that we end up in a double - dip recession (or worse)?

The idea of a computer that could believe in God, for example, is currently pure fantasy.

It is not about living in the moment but rather it is about looking back in the past where it all began and into a future that is pure fantasy.

Although it is not without some flaws typical of the kind of game, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is an unmissable product for all gamers who grew up reading the immeasurable dark fantasy epic of Miura genius: the title manages to translate perfectly in pure action as appreciated in the pages eponymous manga.

Because this story is pure fantasy, everything works out — so well in fact that the ending almost feels like a saccharine overdose.

The premise is pure fantasy: one day Anna walks into the travel book store of Notting Hill (a neighborhood in London) resident William Thacker (Grant, comfortably back in Four Weddings stammer mode), and in quick time this average joe finds himself striking a friendship with the glam starlet that eventually develops into something deeper — which, of course, leads to some problems with anonymity.

While the assassination is fact, everything else in the movie is pure Hollywood fantasy intended to give the viewer a glimpse of the political climate of the time.

Leigh Whannell's script is pure comic book fantasy, with thinly defined characters, a silly plot line, and high amounts of illogical events that must transpire in order to get the rather lackluster hero to continue to unearth information on the nature of the weird looking dummy and its malevolent curse.

by Walter Chaw Yoshiaki Kawajiri's name is probably not as familiar to anime's United States fanbase as Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, or Shinichirô Watanabe, but amid those in the «know,» his Ninja Scroll is among the best pure action / fantasy films of the last fifty years in any medium.

At the same time, the imaginative fertility of Anderson's latest movies — the way they conflate meticulously re-created historical details with wild confabulations and surreal touches of pure fantasy, always trying to top their own sweeping gestures with wider and weightier ones — is linked, in my mind, with the way they close off all possible routes of access to the respective cultural mainstreams of the eras they depict.

And now there's «The Only Living Boy in New York»; even though this new turkey avoids the fantasy and sci - fi elements of those previous films, it's pure Loeb all the way, from the consistently unbelievable dialogue to his favorite screenwriting device, the «shocking» third - act reveal that proves more ludicrous than illuminating.

Even these, however, are couched in the realm of fantasy, and any answers we might glean are still pure speculation.

In an effort to avoid a war, Talinvar and his friends are faced with every danger in a darkening world, pursuing an enemy that can only be possessed by pure evil... Discover KND brand new fantasy of the month: The Thorn Guard of Cyranessa by Christopher MichaIn an effort to avoid a war, Talinvar and his friends are faced with every danger in a darkening world, pursuing an enemy that can only be possessed by pure evil... Discover KND brand new fantasy of the month: The Thorn Guard of Cyranessa by Christopher Michain a darkening world, pursuing an enemy that can only be possessed by pure evil... Discover KND brand new fantasy of the month: The Thorn Guard of Cyranessa by Christopher Michael

In the long - running tension between pure entertainment and meaningful science fiction and fantasy, anthologist John Joseph Adams says, «We can have both.

Many of the stories in this collection were originally journal entries, while others are pure fantasy.

-- Some people view the concept of passive income in the same light as others view the perpetual motion machine and cold fusion... a great idea but pure fantasy

It is going to be about impossible for new highs in the indices because the last couple decades has been pure fantasy.

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The world is the sprawling size of the lands explored in XII, the fully opened up menu system blows the watered down RPG mechanics of Mass Effect 2 away, and the excitement of the pure fantasy world to be explored will bring back nostalgic feelings of Final Fantasy at its best.

Pure fantasy awesomeness in the palm of your hand.

And much like many others of its ilk, it reminds us why we enjoyed these classics back in the day, with its majestic fantasy setting that transports us to another world, and its focus on pure gaming fun, rather than gritty realism, overly complex control schemes, and / or endless narratives riddled with a bombardment of dialogue.

The lovable Goonies that make up the main cast and the pure power fantasy of feeling like a powerless high schooler but realizing you're able to literally change the world is something you don't really see as well done as it is in Persona 5.

Narrative Fantasy After decades of conceptually oriented art, much of which interrogated codes of photographic representation, a generation of artists emerged during the 1990s that incorporated pure fantasy in their work.

In detailed, large - scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.moIn detailed, large - scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.moin a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.more

Standing before Tracey Emin's tiny new paintings in the vast galleries of White Cube Bermondsey, the entire reason for art's existence unfurls: every line is a snatch of emotion, every drip a careful meditation, equal parts memory and fantasy, brought from artist to audience in an act of pure communication.

The precisely ordered composition of his work, as in «The Magic Triangle» — one of the highlights of the show -, constructs a juxtaposition with the chaos that reigns all around it, creating a perfectly controlled but unreal space, in which the pure materiality of it's components vanishes in the halo of an ideal world and dreaming environment: an artist studio where creativity is stimulated and fantasy is unleashed.

All five paintings in «Thoughts of Man» are pure fantasies.

Yet your conviction in this matter is pure fantasy.

That is, even after cobbling together the best statistical assessment of likelihood of a strong warming event, taking that onwards to the projected negative consequences is an exercise in (literally) pure fantasy.

Free market mechanisms should ensure whatever the expense, the individual choices of buyers and sellers will tend to reduce the impact of said expenses from the maximum numbers Lord Lawson posits to a much lower, marginal, level except where his numbers take on the aspect of pure fantasy, proposing a world that can never be, with an SUV in the driveway for every member of every family on the planet to ensure maximum welfare of the poor.

Spicer argues that the «ticking bomb hypothetical», which is used by those who propose the legalisation of torture in certain limited circumstances, «should be rejected as pure fantasy».

Its distinctive flowers — they look like a cross between an inverted umbrella and a tutu - clad ballerina en points — are pure science fiction - fantasy and it was surely these other - worldly looks that appealed to the Victorians, who first made collecting this sub-tropical flower species so very fashionable in Britain.