«I want to state for the record that that publication and its related attributions to me are pure fabrications and figment
of imagination of the writer and the newspaper.
Not exact matches
You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs — the ability to switch back and forth in your
imagination from your own point
of view as
writer / painter / seller to the point
of view
of your reader / gallery - goer / customer.
The entire Bible is ONLY the ideas
of several «low level»
writers with big
imaginations.
With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array
of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic
writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way
of a revolutionary understanding
of the
imagination.
• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories
of the Future: The most mercurially gifted
of the «Odessa School»
writers, Krzhizhanovsky is at last emerging from the shadows to which Soviet censorship condemned him for decades, and these seven stories are among the most attractive specimens
of his bizarre, whimsical, frightening, kindly, and endlessly fertile
imagination.
Downing also calls attention to the images that had been incubating for years in Lewis's fertile
imagination and that suddenly came to life in the Narnia stories, and Jacobs suggests that we should hardly be surprised when a
writer with a long record
of concern for moral education turns to writing stories for children.
Not in the form
of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way
of metaphor: «If the state
of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image
of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic
writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs
of the
imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»
Dana Gioia likens a renewal
of Catholic literature to the renovation
of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «It is time for Catholic
writers and intellectuals to leave the homogenous, characterless suburbs
of the
imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts.»
Certainly the J and E
writers and their successors who made so much
of the idea did not create it out
of pure
imagination.
Faced with two weeks
of care for a son he barely knows, Milne is distracted from an epic case
of writer's block by his son's
imagination.
In a second proposition it is possible to state how the
imagination, immersed in the Pauline substance and peculiar style, works to prepare the preacher for more lively and fuller utterance
of the
writer's intention.
Contemporary
writers often reflect this sad reality, and it is helpful to point to (and to publish) the
writers who grapple courageously with this dilemma,
writers whose
imaginations collide with the grim implications
of life in a culture which has forgotten the future.
11 And Sallie McFague, professor
of theology at Vanberbilt Divinity School, takes on the fundamentalist viewpoint head - on: «This may be blasphemy to the literal - minded; but it is fortunate that the New Testament
writers were endowed with rich
imaginations, for otherwise the New Testament would hold little chance
of being revelatory.»
This is no less true
of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem
of Pure
Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such
writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.
The problem I have with this is, none a single sentence make any sense, what predictions are you referring to, during the times
of Christ most people thought he was a joke, it is not a stretch
of the
imagination to say that most people would reject such nonsense, I think the original
writers are laughing in their graves at how gullible you all are.
For if life is but «vanity,» as the
writer of Ecclesiastes suggests, can one truly find pleasure in it by imposing upon it a meaning through an act
of imagination and will?
Anne Rice, as a fantasy
writer, should know better than anyone where all religious texts come from... the
imaginations of the authors.
It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation
of a civilization — in this case, that
of medieval Britain, or at least a vision
of it — complete with the arcana
of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision
of a
writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own
imagination.
That one is just a figment
of the New York
writers»
imagination, created when the Browns and the Giants were in their heyday.»
Like most creative
writers, Woodward has a vivid
imagination that crafts fictional tales for the entertainment
of others.
Most
of the stories on these tabloid are speculation and mere
imagination of writers begging for recognition.
Reacting to the allegation, the state Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, described it as the
imagination of the
writer.
He said that the entire allegation in the publication was an outright falsehood and only existed in the
imagination of the
writers and their collaborators.
In more recent history, cannabis has been used by
writers and others artists as a source
of inspiration and to aid
imagination.
Writer Graham has cheerfully admitted some
of the most serendipitous lines were tissues
of lies, gossamered into being purely by his own
imagination.
«One
of such stories is the one entitled «Tinubu Bombs Buhari,» which is fit only for the trash can and a figment
of the
writer's
imagination.
The twelve shortlisted images truly captured the
imagination of the judging panel, which included Peter Murray, founder and director
of the New London Architecture Centre and the renowned architect,
writer and broadcaster, Maxwell Hutchinson.
«It is pertinent to state that the Nigeria Police Force is a highly discipline (d) organization with full observation and compliance with professional ethics, decorum, respect for proper behaviour and good manners within the ranks
of personnel
of the Force, the comment therefore, is a distraction and absolutely a shadowy
imagination of the
writer and should be disregarded and discountenance in its entirety.
WHILE many suspect the world is mired in some kind
of futuristic dystopia, Feedback finds itself unable to ascertain exactly which
writer's fevered
imagination we find ourselves stuck in.
Once the news
of Dolly's birth became public, in February 1997, she made headlines and captured the
imagination of commentators, politicians and headline
writers across the planet.
The discipline itself is empowering, so that a sentence spun from the
imagination confers on the
writer a degree
of perception or acuity or heightened awareness that a sentence composed with the strictest attention to fact does not.
The sequencing
of the human genome has captured the
imagination of people everywhere, including
writers and artists.
And in the case
of an exoplanet called TrES - 2b, script
writers»
imaginations would run wild as to what sci - fi horror could be waiting deep in its inky atmosphere.
A website offering fresh, original and exclusive material by
writers who espouse the philosophy that «Words Matter» and believe that
imagination is the seed
of accomplishment.
Fascinating conversationalist, vivid
imagination, charming, lover
of people, fill
of wisdom, amateur song play, poetry
writer, romantic, humorous.
This plot twist revealed lack
of imagination from the
writers, this homosexual thing is old and has a longer beard than my grandfather.
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.
I loved watching the special features on The Sopranos, because the creator
writer David Chase would talk you through each scene, and how a lot
of the characters would be coming from his own life and
imagination Tony Sopranos mother was part based on David Chase's mother.
«My characters and stories are in the
imaginations of writers,» Travolta said.
Taut, spare, riveting and with a twist that has become in many ways an albatross around the neck
of its
writer / director, The Sixth Sense rests squarely on the shoulders
of Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and the
imagination of the viewer.
With a low budget but a lot
of imagination and talent, director Trevorrow and
writer Connolly create a deceptively simple comedy that's one
of the most entertaining films
of the year.
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.»
Suffering from acute agoraphobia and terrified
of germs, the
writer has a wild
imagination and a knack for dashing off edge -
of - you - seat best sellers about the leading character (Gerard Butler) who shares her name.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
of sensitive
writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»
He is currently in prison, and in the flashes
of teenagers on gurneys and in body bags, police cars, rescue workers, and screaming parents outside
of a high school that co -
writer / director Lynne Ramsay inserts throughout the tapestry
of Eva's memory, it does not take much
imagination to determine what Kevin has done.
Her, Spike Jonze's latest window into his brilliant, hyperactive
imagination, follows a sad - sack
writer named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) as he begins to fall for an operating system named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), something like a super-advanced version
of «Siri» tailored to be Theodore's perfect companion.
Writer - director D.J. Pooh thinks that shock value equals laughs, and while this can work (check out the oeuvre
of the Farrelly Brothers), it only does so when some
imagination is put into the joke.
I've seen my share
of movies that James Franco has written, directed and starred in, going back to The Ape, a broad comedy where he played an aspiring
writer (oh, the
imagination!)
These tired elements highlight the lack
of imagination of director Ed Decter and
writer David Kendall.
In that moment I realized that somewhere in the early stages
of this movie, when all three
writers gathered and collaborated, there was a wonderful and enchanting story with memorable characters waiting to capture the wild west
imagination.