Sentences with phrase «own flights of imagination»

But now, indulge in a flight of imagination.

Case in point: «fact», which apparently means «wild flight of my imagination» to this guy.

Alone on the hill, with the dark sky and the stars above and the discordant world below, the narrator sinks more deeply into a contemplative state and, much like Stapledon's description of the Whiteheadian explorer, proceeds on a panoramic exploration, leaving his mountain top in a flight of imagination while staring at the stars.

During this flight of imagination he finds himself in the grips of an inexplicable religious experience, praising and worshipping the maker of the stars above.

Even though his writings were characterized by often bewildering flights of the imagination, I find no justification for regarding them as inflicted with mental disability.

Playing encourages your flights of imagination about what he will be when he grows up, so let it soar.

These were just flights of my imagination.

It thinks «based on actual events» are words likely to boost the shudder count: instead, they cramp every flight of imagination a haunted - house flick should feel emboldened to make.

«The Shape of Water» /» Wonderstruck» /» Downsizing» From three of our finest auteurs, superior flights of imagination on technology and our total failure at verbal communication.

Added NYFF Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, «Todd Haynes and Brian Selznick have pulled off something truly remarkable here — a powerful evocation of childhood, with all of its mysteries and terrors and flights of imagination and longings; richly textured re-creations of Manhattan in the»20s and the»70s; and a magical and intricately plotted quest story that builds to a beautiful climax.»

Busby Berkeley's flights of imagination seem to be a good match for the colour and choreography of West Side.

New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, «Todd Haynes and Brian Selznick have pulled off something truly remarkable here — a powerful evocation of childhood, with all of its mysteries and terrors and flights of imagination and longings; richly textured re-creations of Manhattan in the»20s and the»70s; and a magical and intricately plotted quest story that builds to a beautiful climax.

In his brilliantly inscrutable debut, Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends documentary authenticity with wild flights of imagination.

My first favorite book was Up in a Tree, Margaret Atwood's flight of imagination and can - do spirit.

A vital element of Laini Taylor's sweeping, dramatic, exciting new novel is travel in many artfully rendered guises, including flights of imagination via books in an amazing library, a grueling but thrilling road trip to a forgotten city and nocturnal tours of people's dreams.

With its large format and appealing pastel and oil paintings, Sebastian and the Balloon is a perfect choice for story time — and for all young readers ready to undertake their own flights of imagination.

From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears.

My Work is a flight of the imagination, taking place in an uncertain future and inspired by an unknowable past.

Any material remnant, quotidian experience, or quiet personal storm is deserving of a gesture that acts at once as a journalistic record and as a flight of imagination.»

Paper transforms into the perfect backdrop for the artists» flights of the imagination across mythical mountain — and cityscapes.

Screen Memory however focuses on the lateral and idiosyncratic aspects of quotation and recollection; from the flat effect of simulation and the disquieting effects of fragmentary reminiscence, to the absurd and humorous distortions and ruptures as familiar images intertwine with flights of imagination.

Rhodochrosite Sunrise, Caldera in the Mist, Highlands and Flight of Imagination are a blending of the very abstract brought to life through the use of traditional brush work necessary for the painting to be successful.

As an outsider he was exposed to the extraordinary richness of contemporary German art which ranges from the conceptual rigor of Gerhard Richter to the expressionist style of Georg Baselitz, eventually the matter - of - fact depiction of recognizable events and objects and wild flights of the imagination.

The crustal displacement / polar wander fancies of Hapgood are just that: flights of imagination.

Not exact matches

when all human beings understand and accept the frailties of our own collective existence... and respect the emotions and imaginations that find flight and power within even the most illusionary of perceptions.

But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

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.

Only on occasion did Paul's imagination rise to flights of paradox and poetic forms.

And the image of the woman fleeing the dragon in Revelation 12, popular in the New England imagination since the Puritans» own flight, gave an apocalyptic intensity to the sermons of Samuel Sherwood.

But for now he hangs in suspended animation spiritually, waiting for the wings of the Spirit to give flight to his imagination for the first breakthrough insight that will spark the beginnings of the sermon.

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.

By piling complex image upon complex image, Hopkins drives toward the «inscape» or particularity of the bird's majestic flight and brilliant death; that is, the most indirect path is the most direct, or to put it differently, the only way to express radical particularity is through a plethora of images juxtaposed to one another, sparking the imagination to move toward a synthesis which, while not logical, is, taken as a whole, suggestive of a particularity.

A top ten finish would have been beyond Stoke's wildest imaginations at the start of the season, with second season syndrome always lurking over those side who do survive their very first season in the top flight.

With the push of a button you can watch your child's imagination take flight.

Whether it's a fort of sofa cushions, a sheet with the ends tied to dining room chairs, a blanket hung over a coffee table, or the tree house built by my amazing hubby, my children's imaginations take flight.

With a weightless Oscar floating in front of him, shuttle commander Charles Bolden described Lucas as «an explorer inhis own right», and added: «The imagination and ingenuitythat have turned dreams into the reality of space flight are no different than those which turn ideas and inspiration into motion pictures.»

I do think that our program has been stuck for a while — that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public — that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights.

A rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination.

The idea of a personal, rocket - powered flight device has captured man's imagination for decades, yet the reality of such a device remains depressingly distant.

Ruby Sparks starts in earnest with a flight of fancy: A writer not only manages to create life just from the effort of his imagination and the punching of keys on his typewriter but also brings into existence the girl of his dreams.

Multifaceted and evocative, the beautiful illustrations capture the mile - a-second swirl of a little boy's imagination, the awesome grandeur of flight, and the danger of battle.

SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED: June 1 — 30 (midnight) Boys in Flight / June 2015 Below is a wonderful image that evokes a lot of imagination.

SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED: June 1 - 30 (midnight) Boys in Flight / June 2015 Below is a wonderful image that evokes a lot of imagination.

-- Wall Street Journal «A harrowing, clever, incomparable riff on life in Kim Jong Il's North Korea» — San Francisco Chronicle «Magnificently accomplished... Part thriller, part coming - of - age novel, part romance, The Orphan Master's Son is made sturdy by research... but what makes it so absorbing isn't its documentary realism but the dark flight of the author's imagination... rich with a sense of discovery... The year is young, but The Orphan Master's Son has an early lead on novel of 2012» — The Daily Beast «Providing a rare glimpse into one of the world's least known countries, Adam Johnson weaves a tale of hardship, romance, and redemption in North Korea in The Orphan Master's Son.»

The colorful and plentiful coral and fish captured both of our imaginations, so it didn't take us long to book our flights and accommodations.

Continuing in the Audubon tradition of artistic ornithology, many of Connor's bird paintings seem filtered through a lens of the imagination, effectively transporting the birds from the world of the real to a magical realm of observation and flight.

In its recent contemporary redux, it has appeared as a private space or withdrawal to the imagination, an illusion or a flight of fantasy.

It's really about the imagination and the inner spirit of flight.»

With contributions by Anthony Vidler and Peter Wollen Due in large part to the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the O. J. Simpson trial, the once - arcane field of forensics has taken hold of the popular imagination.

The panel was encouraged by the imagination shown by the NASA - NOAA team and was extremely supportive of their ideas for implementation flexibility — specifically including flights on diverse platforms, including formation flight with NPOESS.