Sentences with phrase «seems fantastical»

Given that the Tories were the preference for working class voters, it seems fantastical to believe that moving further to the left will magically win a majority of this group.

What remains to be seen is whether consumers can accept an idea that seems fantastical in its own right: when it comes to leading - edge design and innovation, it's now Microsoft that's leading the pack.

Their speculations may seem fantastical, but they are well motivated.

It may seem fantastical, but some people on HomeExchange have actually found an international love story in real life.

Such global - scale technological solutions to climate change may seem fantastical, but increasing numbers of scientists argue that the technologies should at least be investigated.

These ideas no longer seem fantastical.

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If that's the case, the vocals seem to be wishing for a world in which fantastical (a.k.a. purple - eyed) unicorns hold sway, rather than their money - grubbing (aka green - eyed) business counterparts.

But it's just as easy, given how that future seems to grow more fantastical and distant with each word he utters, to become cynical.

Interesting: Your statement: «The belief that the unfathomable intricacies of every living thing on our earth formed themselves completely at random seems just as fantastical to me as believing in a Creator» is not an accurate reflection of what evolutionary theory posits.

«The belief that the unfathomable intricacies of every living thing on our earth formed themselves completely at random seems just as fantastical to me as believing in a Creator»

I'm afraid I'm with Willard Quine in taking a dim view of thought experiments that for both theoretical and practical reasons seem utterly fantastical.

Which of these accounts, to a neutral observer, seems more fantastical?

It does not seem natural — it seems fanatical, fantastical, crazed, primitive — for Christians to shed blood for other Christians, Jews for other Jews, Muslims for other Muslims, without respect to citizenship or national boundaries.

During the trial, jurors got the chance to listen to a wiretapped phone conversation in which Skelos imagined beating Cuomo in an election, a scenario that seems even more fantastical this afternoon.

In general, the ideas in theoretical physics seem increasingly fantastical.

In that time frame, so many new strategies will be available that extending life will no longer seem as fantastical as the Space Age once did.

David Ayer's presence behind the camera has been a major talking point; for all the qualities of his previous films, he is essentially a workmanlike gun - for - hire, who occasionally seems lost in the more fantastical elements of the DC world.

All that work has paid off: The movie is an astonishing visual delight, with animation techniques that seem lifelike and fantastical, both at once.

With its plucky preteen heroine, fantastical flying sequences, and boundless imagination for transformative physics, it seems welcoming at first, a tale to sink into like an old comfy chair.

Given how many dungeons, dragons and mages RPGs tend to contain, Kingdom Come's strictly historical approach often seems more fantastical and mysterious than its peers.

Even when the films» stories are set in distant lands and deal with ancient empires, her cleanly organized frames (often filled with carefully spaced plants and animals) and characters» lightness of motion make the fantastical always seem within reach.

The horror behind this, including the Holocaust allegory Terence Stamp's grandpa seems to be an allusion to, is never given the weight it's deserved in an effort to keep this purely fantastical escapism.

What we get instead is often very deliberately mundane: The future fashions and gadgets brandished as a sci - fi convention seem oddly simplistic and mechanical, the action set pieces (if one can even call them that) are pared down to the basics, and even the overtly fantastical game environments look like normal places in the real world.

This reminds me of the other film Goodbye Christopher Robin, about an author and his creation, but this one seems much more dark and fantastical.

(2015) dir Matteo Garrone w / Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson [133 min; DCP] Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile, TALE OF TALES unleashes a barrage of mind - bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis) adventures of three kings: in the kingdom of Darkwood, the King (Reilly) and his Queen (Hayek) attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means; meanwhile, in Highhills, the none - too - bright monarch (Jones) marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and, the sex - obsessed crown of Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

Of course, Joe and Jerry are the only men who seem interested in actually courting Sugar Kane, a fantastical suspension of disbelief that goes hand in hand with the idea that no one can tell that Curtis's Josephine and Lemmon's Daphne aren't hiding something under their Orry - Kelly dresses.

Without question Pt. 1 is the weakest in the franchise but it seems that it drained into Pt. 2 because despite moments of complete peril and action there are scenes that drag unbelievably slow killing any momentum built up by some fantastical action sequence.

That these two seeming extremes — the realistic and the fantastical — fit together perfectly in the film is a tribute to Ihre's skill as a cinematographer and the closeness of his collaboration with Trier.

The film also tries to inject some dreamy more fantastical elements into the proceedings, but doesn't do enough of them to present a theme so they seem out - of - place.

The opening dream sequence, with its giant airships and squid - like torpedoes, seems designed to make Miyazaki fans feel at home, but it's the most fantastical sequence in the film by some way.

Such is the power of the fantastical images that they seem to possess an almost - ethereal quality, and by the time the film enters its final third, you find yourself daydreaming, completely lost in Anderson's whimsical universe.

The Countach's five - speed dogleg» box is heavy and slow but that only adds to the experience, the long punctuation of the V12's furious noise making it seem even more fantastical when the note hardens and howls once again.

-- but one that seemed to encompass the kind of books we wanted to offer: fantastical fiction with a sense of the magical and spiritual, written with a literary sensibility, by which we mean fiction with a love of language and an awareness of its place in the literary canon.

I thought it was a clever way to transition the journey and since it is a fantastical thought that many of us picture when we first learn about the Underground Railroad it seemed right for this story.

Last year's River City: Tokyo Rumble seems to have changed that sentiment, as the next fantastical franchise edition found its way to the Nintendo eShop this week.

You've got your range of fantastical abilities and weapons, including a very Edward Scissorhands - like glove of blades as one possible Drain weapon, and Mia's insistence on wearing a bearskin hat and running around with what seems to be a 19th century musket... Somehow, it actually works quite well.

She's such a joyless, personality - free sponge of a protagonist, that she makes the fantastical seem drab and uniform simply by association.

Super Punch seems to be stepping away from their fantastical games like their most recent work of Infamous Second Son and going for sheer authenticity.

In general, Destiny seems to combine the best things about the Borderlands series — loot collecting and co-operatively killing hordes of enemies — with Halo's sci - fi story line and fantastical setting.

There's something incredibly special and heartwarming about everything in Knights & Bikes, from the hand - drawn art style to the amazing music and the fact that all of it, every part, seems like something you would have done as a kid: cycling around the woods, keeping mysterious detritus as «treasure» and making up fantastical adventures in your head.

To me it seems a lot of people are bogged down in «fantastical beings» trope and it all seems like «fitting in» rather than saying anything, no matter how skilled the artwork is.

Fantastical worlds seems the most inclusive, since it can include characters and «inside the mind» spaces.

«The sculptures» universal — even fantastical — subjects, along with their intimate scale, seductive colors, and shimmering surfaces, seem equally lovely and strange.

The artists make the familiar seem unfamiliar by distorting space and suffusing their fantastical scenes with characters seemingly caught between this world and another.

Inspired by the fanciful shapes and patterning of Wave Hill's extensive range of species, Parisi's myriad of fantastical hybrid plant forms seem to flutter off the walls.

The drawings seem to be growing their own plant life even as they observe plant life a-growing; they seem to begin as clinical descriptions of smaller botanical forms and then get infected by natural process, burgeoning organically into fantastical vines and entrails.

Whether ankle - high or giant - size, Tom Otterness's roly - poly figures are whimsical, fantastical, and not as innocent as they may seem Hilarie M. Sheets

Here it seems too, that Choe assigns a kind of fantastical mythology to his works, describing «Custos Cavum» as such:

In this world Greenpeace doesn't look fantastical, shrill and occasionally criminal, as it does to many in business; it seems a «stakeholder» among others.