Sentences with phrase «meglamaniac fantasist»

Former Liberal adviser Peta Credlin has become — or perhaps always was — an egomaniacal fantasist.

In making its case for the assumed superiority of indigenous cultures, the statement invokes the authority of historical fantasist Vine Deloria, author of Custer Died for Your Sins and God is Red.

When one party has elevated lifestyle libertinism to the first of constitutional principles (and is prepared to kill unborn children, jettison free speech, and traduce religious freedom in service to hedonism), while the other is prepared to nominate a fantasist who spun grotesque fairy tales about an alleged connection between an opponent's family and Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he closed the deal?

Sherlock was able to disappoint its theorizers without serious consequence, because its theorizers tend also to be fantasists.

Not unlike the formalists, but (being English) less theoretical were the men Cantor calls «the Oxford fantasists»» Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Frederick Maurice Powicke.

White, with his anachronistic jokes (Malory himself is teased for having been «a passionate follower of tournaments — like one of those old gentlemen who nowadays frequent the cricket pavilion at Lord's»), is at the same time more and less serious than any follower of that first fantasist, Lord Dunsany, could hope to be.

As for being a future legend, I will leave that to the fantasists and hype lovers, one of whom clearly wrote the article.

Yep that's right when Wenger joined Arsenal hadn't won the league six years before and a year before that one, Arsenal hadn't won the league cup and fa cup three years before and Arsenal had definitely definitely not won a European trophy two years before, that's right Sam and the other fantasists» Arsenal were a mid table team since their creation.

Don't think many on here would buy your last line — think you should qualify this to reflect your own true feelings: «You support and care only for Arsenal when it is done in accordance with your fantasist wishes».

Your're much more of a fantasist than Wenger.............

Nah, not OCD, more a fantasist who has delusions of grandeur.

THIS IS WHY THESE NAIVE FANTASISTS HAVE DISLIKED YOUR TRUTHFUL POST.

Call me a blinkered delusional fantasist..

To suggest that playing Theo and dropping either Ramsey or Ozil (not sure what you would propose) was the key to beating Chelsea is an easy card to play, and as with all this revisionist, fantasist stuff, impossible to prove.

I will now be counting the many dislikes from the many fantasists on here.

But the good news for others, who perhaps have even til today been hoping for possible 4th place, is that NOW we are 8 points behind Liverpool and Chelsea and 5 behind Spurs, is that surely now even these fantasists will not believe any more and the Wenger out campaign — which will be in force at Emirates next week — will have overwhelming support.

Indeed it was only when I decided to investigate some of Knighton's claims about being refused transfer funds and being reduced to playing «the brother - in - law of the club's doctor» because he was so short of players, that the full realisation that Knighton was a fantasist finally became apparent.

Things like telling people to grow up or being fantasists and how he is some good Samaritan just trying to bring some reality to our poor blinkered lives.

The silver lining though is that finally the team have a manager in Brian McDermott who cares more about the performance of the team and how that reflects on Leeds United Football Club than a narcassistic fantasist who was only in for the ego boost a record number of promotions would bring.

A fantasist libertarian - anarchist «free market» is a very silly baseline, but... and this is a very obvious point, and of course those political philosophers you mention must have dealt with it... but I don't see how equality can be a «baseline» either, not while we live in world where some people work hard and save their pennies, while others don't.

The fantasist clickbait wrongfest that is The Canary website is rapidly growing to rival more established outlets such as The New Statesman and The Economist.

There is simply no way that Labour can introduce AV this side of a general election (no matter what the fantasists may insist otherwise).

Some loyalists are trying to offset it with the fact that Labour staved off defeat in Stoke — as if retaining a rock - solid seat against a carpetbagging, tweed - wearing fantasist counts as some kind of triumph rather than the minimum ask of an opposition party in midterm.

«If we did that we would be accused of being fantasists or dishonest.

There are far more male fantasists than female fantasists.»

Earlier, Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, accused the media of trying to smear the Labour leader with «fantasist» spying claims because it feared the party's plans for press regulation.

Let Corbychev have the fantasists, bigots and closet - Kipper vote.

On her conviction, Huhne said: «Constance Briscoe has been revealed as a compulsive and self - publicising fantasist.

After the verdict this year Huhne, who was forced to resign as an MP, described Briscoe as a «compulsive and self - publicising fantasist», declaring: «British justice is likely to be a lot fairer with Briscoe behind bars.»

2/27/2017, By: The Fight Scholar — Even the most extravagant fantasist couldn't have predicted Haye vs Bellew a year ago.

Sugar Babies, have you had a bad experience with a man claiming to be wealthy and then turning out to be nothing but a fantasist?

Morris lets McKinney hold the camera for long stretches; she's a bright and funny self - dramatizer, and almost certainly a mad fantasist.

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

Instead there's a lot of the repulsive Shawn (Paul Walter Hauser), Jeff's fantasist, fat - ass friend and so - called bodyguard of Tonya, who lives with his parents and whose farcically inept part in the Kerrigan plot forms the crux of the film's comedy.

Take some of her recent parts: the colonial survivor, tenacious in the face of social breakdown in Claire Denis's White Material (09); a flamboyant fantasist in Marc Fitoussi's frothy comedy Copacabana (10); the uncomprehending, vulnerable daughter of elderly parents in Michael Haneke's Amour (12); a comically lascivious Mother Superior in Guillaume Nicloux's Diderot adaptation The Nun (13); a bored married woman pondering an affair in a softer comedy, the recent French release Paris Follies (Fitoussi again, 14).

As an artist, he is attracted to dreamers and fantasists but can't resist puncturing their illusions and presenting them as losers.

Wes Anderson's early films Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) took place in more or less the real world, but concerned fantasists who tried to make their imaginings concrete (or at least papier - mâché) reality.

by Walter Chaw J.K. Rowling is more plotter than writer or editor, more rambling fantasist than disciplined storyteller — explanation there as to why her Harry Potter novels aren't classics so much as very popular stories for children.

Ed (Ben Chaplin, fresh off our screens as a suave fantasist in «Apple Tree Yard») is an almost fanatically rational (albeit wildly smug) lawyer, whose insistence on dissecting and debating every interaction outside the courtroom — as well as in — infuriates his wife Kitty (the always brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin).

The hero, a dysfunctional fantasist played by Ryan Gosling, then proceeds to revive the bear by giving it mouth - to - mouth resuscitation on the break table.

Any sensible person would have given up years ago but sometimes pig - headed dreamers win in the end, so thank you to all of the ill - paid fantasists and believers who have joined to make this longstanding dream a reality!»

When Life magazine announces its final issue, negatives asset manager and serial fantasist Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller, who also directs) is charged with supplying the final cover image.

You are clearly a tiresome fantasist troll who still lives with his mother.

A multiple - award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood - chilling roller - coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.

- The Guardian (UK) «Flanery's brilliantly sly and funny book updates Nabokov's Cold War story of despotic power to the present day... The fear that we are watched is no longer the province of isolated fantasists but a new fact of everyday life.»

Many travelers are essentially fantasists.

In a magnificent feat of world building, Victoria Strauss has created a unique, vividly imagined land, society, and religious culture while spinning a riveting tale of duty, revelation, destiny, and magic that places her in the top ranks of contemporary fantasists.

Always the thinking - person's fantasist, Matsuno again crafted a deliciously convoluted story of intrigue and deception in which the main character, Ashley Riot, comes across as a sort of medieval Solid Snake.

Miyamoto was more of a blue - sky fantasist, and a cheerful presentation would immediately set the game apart — so that was in.