Sentences with phrase «other flights of fancy»

These collections of skulls, specimens, botanical sketches, and other flights of fancy were popularized during the 19th - century Victorian era and were displayed in small spaces... Continue reading Artist a Day: Lezley Saar

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.

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Ok, he's over the years, he's not been able to meet our exacting standards and perform the feats of old in recent times which were sometimes due to his own flights of fancy and picking inadequate teams and players to fulfil the quest and others were down to others around him not giving him the budget to go wild and buy the premiership...........

Tōhoku Sky Village is not just an architect's flight of fancy: one municipality in the affected region is making moves towards building one in its locality and others could follow.

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.

It «Äôs extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now, which is why, for all its flights of fancy, worlds within worlds and agonies upon agonies, it comes down hard for living in the world with real, breathing, embracing bodies pressed against other bodies.

Sometimes these are a preview of what will make it in production, but other times they're flights of fancy.

But both understood how important it was for me to go on those flights of fancy that took me to other places and even to other worlds.

Injustice is a fighting game by Mortal Kombat developers NetherRealm Studios, who pulled their extensive experience of making games where people disembowel each other, into a comic - book flight of fancy where Batman dislocates his own knee over an arbitrary dispute.....

We bonded over Doctor Who and various other sci - fi flights of fancy.