Sentences with phrase «own fabulist»

The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

With Pearl Jam 20 he's a fabulist, and insofar as he continues the narrative that rock will save the world or yourself, he is a fabulist in a way that presents illusions that are untrue.

And Boiardo» even more than Ariosto» is so irrepressibly inventive a fabulist that one often has the feeling that, but for the author's mortality, the story need never come to an end.

Another woman, Flannery O'Connor, one of Hawthorne's chief imaginative disciples as a moral fabulist, blamed Emerson for the «vaporization of religion in America.»

Johnson appears to be an utter fabulist, an egoist with scant regard for reality, pointing at a barren lot and waving at all the happy people he has housed there.

But Dali was also a spectacular fabulist, and that was the only excuse Anderson needed to concoct a scenario that involved the following survivors of a shipwreck: a «sailor babe» (his words), a thuggy pirate, an ethnic pilgrim, an individual «in search of Namaste,» and a schoolboy.

So, can you protect yourself from online dating fabulists?

Part social realist, part fabulist, Sebastián Lelio makes films that often ask audiences to rethink their biases and do better by the victimized and ostracized.

Though a reasonable consensus points to the former, fabulists of any stripe are instant pariahs in the journalism world, whether they're first - time offenders or serial liars, so Finkel was staring at a steep incline on the road to redemption.

Animator / fabulist Hayao Miyazaki pays homage to Hollywood's wartime adventure films in this masterwork built around the adventures of a high - flying pig.

His dark fabulist sensibility lends itself incredibly well to fairytales, and his ouevre includes several strong contenders.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

Hitchcock is a fabulist take on Hitchcock's life while making Psycho.

Dir Clive Barker (Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley) From the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle - box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank's resurrected body.

The Portuguese Gomes, fulfilling the promise of Our Beloved Month of August, follows in the fabulist tradition of his countryman Manoel de Oliveira, as well as directors such as Raúl Ruiz, while paying homage to silent cinema.

About a week after what I, Tonya refers to as «the incident,» authorities obtained a confession from Eckardt, Gillooly's scheming, fabulist buddy.

Director Steven Spielberg has long been a purveyor of magical fantasies for the silver screen, a joyful fabulist who also ventures into darker, more adult, dramas, as well.

, the picture is mainly interesting because, after having sat on the shelf for a while, it's finally surfaced in tandem with Lasse Hallström's similarly - mothballed film about another fabulist, Clifford Irving.

The Monster Squad A conversation with master fabulist Guillermo del Toro.

Many more manifestations of the wondrous, weird, and inexplicable occur as a war of the worlds begins, stoked from beyond by none other than Ibn Rushd, still loved by Dunia, and his real - life archrival, the religious thinker Ghazali, who, in Rushdie's fabulist scenario, is aligned with the most terrifying jinn of them all.

I'm a fabulist by trade, so be forewarned: I've spent years looting my life for fiction.

Laine is also an accomplished author whose award - winning novels span literary fiction, psychological suspense, and fabulist stories.

But first Raymie must learn to twirl a baton, which is how she comes to be at a twirling lesson flanked by world - weary, subversive Beverly Tapinski and fabulist Louisiana Elefante, a girl stronger than her penchant for fainting would make her seem.

And when a stranger from one of Mary's fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor's tragic secret.

Eighty years before the theft, these questions haunted Chagall and the enigmatic Yiddish fabulist Der Nister («The Hidden One»), teachers at a school for Jewish orphans.

In Office Girl (2012), The Great Perhaps (2009), and other works, he mines pop culture, art, and science in fabulist yet lacerating urban stories.

Phantom Drift is focused on fabulist writing and we aim to nurture the literature of fabulism, the fantastic, and the surreal.

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

Like a lot of fabulists, Blume was better off keeping things simple.

A contemporary fabulist, Ehrenberg's primary performers are animal, plant, mineral, and architecture.

The fabulist and inveterate drifter Joseph Yoakum was known to claim that he had traveled the world as a circus man, a soldier, and a train porter during the first six or so decades of his life.

With over 70 drawings, a dozen vitrines and the remnants of an in situ performance piece, Barney's Subliming Vessel offers a crash course in the artist's accretive, utterly fabulist cosmology.

The attention to detail and the development of fabulist narratives is apparent in rich and fecund works like Untitled (Spider's Web)(1969) and Drinking Water (1970s).

Aesop, the ancient Greek fabulist, serves as a point of departure for this exhibition, which features more than fifty works that span Brătescu's career.

This quotation, courtesy of the Ancient Greek fabulist Aesop, adorns the entrance to blue orchids , a 48 - minute video by the Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez currently on view at New York's Sean Kelly Gallery.

Kader Attia is a poet, critic, anthropologist, and unrepentant fabulist.

But what the hell, if the Left wants to pursue Stalinism, then they could be joined with calling for RICO investigations of Trenberth and Mann and his hokey stick, and Hansen and his fabulist claims and Schmidt and his egregious use of data.