If you have a professional CEO, you're not subject to the owners»
flights of fancy.
In my wilder
flights of fancy, I wonder what creative means the government could employ to actually change the ownership structure of traditional media.
But in a normally functioning political party, a president — who has to stand for reelection before a national audience — serves as a restraining force for congressional party members, who mostly have safe seats and can afford to indulge in ideological
flights of fancy.
What changes when you become religious is that you realize you're one of those people, and that Promethean heroic autonomy is a bit of
a flight of fancy.
But I would question whether fishermen are more given to
flights of fancy than a doctor such as Luke or an educated academic such as Paul.
, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as
the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR. SCIENTIST.
My approach shows what is wrong with Locke's
flight of fancy that an unstructured material body might think, or Kenny's suggestion that our ways of speaking are compatible with our heads being full of sawdust, so that indeed bodily function is internal to normal mental function (pp. 336 - 339), so that thought and understanding while integrated with the imagination nonetheless transcend it, and transcend the body.
But then they are given to
flight of fancy.
But Whitehead's approach is no mere
flight of fancy into the stratosphere of thought.
These apparently impersonal methods seem to allow for a minimum of subjective involvement, of taking things for granted, and of
flights of fancy.
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.
Even if making them starry - eyed about middle management were remotely feasible, why would we want to encourage our boys in colossal, parti - colored, cape - swishing
flights of fancy and our girls in the Protestant work ethic?
The smoothest white hazelnut praline is a delicious
flight of fancy, with a fine, sugary - sweet brittle edge.
I would probably vote for 15 of them right now, but that's subject to my whims and
flights of fancy.
Forget
the flights of fancy and big names.
Sanogo was a ridiculous wild egotistical punt and we lost 12 mill in wages on
my flight of fancy.
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...........
Keane was too intelligent — a tactician in the body of a street fighter — to over-play or go on the kind of
flights of fancy demanded by some players» egos, but when his team needed him to create more going forward he could do that too.
But if you can, let your child live for a bit with the reminders of
his flights of fancy.
Not only do kids enjoy the silliness of such
flights of fancy, but you're encouraging them to think creatively.
But if and when you can, let your toddler live for a bit with the reminders of
his flights of fancy.
Before you consider
flights of fancy, though, consider whether there are real and concrete reasons she doesn't want to use the potty.
«I've been with Jeremy the whole time as a Labour member of Parliament and he never went off on to one of
these flights of fancy.
Here the author indulges in what your reviewer thinks is
a flight of fancy.
It's
a flight of fancy on her part,» Quinn said of Nixon's announcement Monday that she would take on Cuomo in September's Democratic primary.
Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as
flights of fancy.
It's
a flight of fancy on her part,» Quinn said of Nixon's campaign announcement.
Said Quinn to the NY Post: «It's
a flight of fancy on her part.
The various
flights of fancy regarding ambergris were perhaps further inspired by the seemingly miraculous transformation of the material from this fresh state — fecal, soft, dense, and jet black on the outside and dark brown inside — to the aged white, porous, and faintly sweet - smelling chunks.
This flight of fancy, he later said, sowed the seed for special relativity.
But these youthful
flights of fancy, with their imagined parallel realities, resonate with an increasingly prominent theme in modern science — the possibility of worlds lying beyond the one we know.
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Flight of fancy: we referred to Lynn Rothschild as creator of a biodegradable drone; in fact she led the...
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Flight of fancy: we referred to Lynn Rothschild as creator of a biodegradable drone; in fact she led the team that created it (15 November, p 21).
The project may sound like
a flight of fancy, but Robert Howard, Jr., manager of NASA Johnson Space Center's Habitability Design Center, stresses that these university projects provide out - of - the - box insight into real design problems the space agency faces — none of which have a single correct answer.
They embark on wild
flights of fancy, single - handedly coming up with a cure for AIDS, a new method for genomic sequencing, and the key to human evolution before you've even finished your morning coffee.
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.
In particular, you can scarcely avoid reflecting on the age - old problem of how to tell the difference between a genuine anomaly and a well - argued
flight of fancy.
Thistle Diary: Future hopes,
flights of fancy and glue sniffing — Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
The island of stability is
no flight of fancy, though.
Take
a flight of fancy and elevate your kitchen style with our whimsical exclusive bird print kitchen towel.
a mildly amusing
flight of fancy for the family crowd, is far better for its penguins than its Popper.
It makes the viewer willing to excuse the film's
flights of fancy, like a fiery action sequence in a hidden room where escape follows a familiar movie formula, or a denouement that feels a bit padded.
But I haven't even mentioned the movie's grandest grown - up
flight of fancy: Namely that if you somehow found yourself immersed in the world of your young - adult children, your offspring would not only tolerate your presence, but actually listen to your hard - earned wisdom and want to spend loads and loads of time with you.
For
all its flights of fancy the Encore mini-series is not entirely silly or even half bad.
The movie goes on
some flights of fancy in following this to its improbable conclusion but, although one might deem Besson's resolution to be preposterous, it's never uninteresting.
In episode 313, the third season finale, Penn and Teller diligently set about debunking the paranormal world of ghosts, spooks and phantoms - and those who claim they can detect or exorcise such
flights of fancy.
The result is less science fiction than a metaphor drawn from it: a peculiar family portrait whose characters, though all lost in their own space, never stray far from their immediate earthbound environs (except in
flights of fancy).
An inspired
flight of fancy, an oddly poignant examination of the creative process, a rumination on adaptation (orchids to their environment, books to the screen and misfits like Charlie to life) and, in its ultimate irony, a story in which our hero learns a life - altering lesson.
Directed by Ivan Reitman, who after years of whiz - bang entertainments like Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop now reveals an unexpectedly gentle side, this agreeable
flight of fancy features Kevin Kline in a dual role.