Sentences with phrase «whimsical story of»

This week we're posting a lot of new content on BookPage.com, from a whimsical story of a rabbi's unlikely journey to a multilayered fantasy.

Perhaps you're picturing what I pictured, the gentle, whimsical story of a sweet, dreamy fellow and his penguin friends.

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This whimsical, witty fantasy novel features a feminist protagonist, one of my favorite love stories in YA literature, and a hilarious wisecracking fireplace.

Another best - selling coloring book for grown - ups, «Enchanted Forest» is a whimsical tome of meticulously illustrated story scenes.

• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future: The most mercurially gifted of the «Odessa School» writers, Krzhizhanovsky is at last emerging from the shadows to which Soviet censorship condemned him for decades, and these seven stories are among the most attractive specimens of his bizarre, whimsical, frightening, kindly, and endlessly fertile imagination.

It's beautiful, weaving the story of Jesus throughout, and the illustrations are whimsical.

Santa is one of the great whimsical outliers of that one true story of a baby born to a virgin.

The early stories often show a whimsical, science - doesn't - know - everything element of fantasy.

Every Grain of Rice — authentic Chinese home - cooking Breakfast for Dinner — sweet and savory breakfast combinations re-purposed for dinnertime The Little Paris Kitchen — classic French cooking made simple enough for every day by TV star Rachel Khoo Sicilia in Cucina — gorgeous, dual - language cookbook focused on the regional flavors of Sicily Venezia in Cucina — sister book to Sicilia in Cucina, but focused on Venice Vegetable Literacy — highly informative vegetable cookbook / encyclopedia, a great resource for enthusiastic kitchen gardeners The Chef's Collaborative — creative recipes from a number of chefs celebrating local, seasonal produce Home Made Summer — a sequel to Home Made and Home Made Winter, packed with simple, summery recipes that make the most of the season's bounty Try This At Home — a fun introduction to molecular gastronomy techniques through the ever creative eyes of Top - Chef Winner Richard Blais Cooking with Flowers — full of sweet recipes that can be made from the flowers in your neighborhood, like lilacs, marigolds, and daylilies Vegetarian Everyday — healthy, creative recipes from the couple behind Green Kitchen Stories The Southern Vegetarian — favorite Southern comfort food classics turned vegetarian by the folks at The Chubby Vegetarian Le Pain Quotidien — simple soups, salads, breads, and desserts from the well - loved Belgian chain Live Fire — ambitious live - fire cooking projects that range from roasting an entire lamb on an iron cross to stuffing burgers with blue cheese to throw on your grill True Brews — a great, accessible introduction to brewing your own soda, kombucha, kefir, cider, beer, mead, sake, and fruit wine Le Petit Paris — a cute little book of classic sweet and savory French dishes, miniaturized for your next cocktail party Wild Rosemary & Lemon Cake — regional Italian cookbook focused on the flavors of the Amalfi coast Vedge — creative, playful vegan recipes from Philadelphia's popular restaurant of the same Full of Flavor — a whimsical cookbook that builds intense flavor around 18 key ingredients Le Pigeon — ambitious but amazing recipes for cooking meat of all sorts, from lamb tongue to eel to bison Pickles, Pigs, and Whiskey — a journey through Southern food in many forms, from home pickling and meat curing to making a perfect gumbo Jenny McCoy's Desserts for Every Season — gorgeous, unique desserts that make the most of each season's best fruits, nuts, and vegetables Winter Cocktails — warm toddies, creamy eggnogs, festive punches, and everything else you need to get you through the colder months Bountiful — produce - heavy, garden - inspired recipe from Diane and Todd of White on Rice Couple Melt — macaroni and cheese taken to extremes you would never have thought of, in the best way possible The Craft Beer Cookbook — all your favorite comfort food recipes infused with the flavors of craft beers, from beer expert Jackie of The Beeroness

Help your kids discover the fun of eating vegetables with the help of a whimsical interactive story (over 40,000 downloaded).

Meet studio jeweller Amy from Foxes and Fables, who makes whimsical jewellery that captures the beauty of the Welsh landscape and combines it with everyday stories and the glamour of the past.

This whimsical story illustrates the unexpected outcomes of one little girl's bad mood, and Lemony Snicket's presentation at the BBF is guaranteed to banish any bad moods from the premises!

Along with fears, the Frankenstein story has inspired hundreds of whimsical names for products and phenomena.

Submarine is not just for the artsy Wes Anderson crowd, who love quirky characters and whimsical cinematography, the film appeals to everyone with it's genuine take on a coming of age story.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes, Love, Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.

THUNDER AND THE HOUSE OF MAGIC is a whimsical animated family adventure, bringing to life a unique story with a great sense of humor, positive values and universal appeaOF MAGIC is a whimsical animated family adventure, bringing to life a unique story with a great sense of humor, positive values and universal appeaof humor, positive values and universal appeal.

Mr. Boyle's brand of heaven - sent love story comes with a strange and whimsical mean streak.

But for my money, Time Bandits is his best and purest fairy story: A young boy gets swept up with a group of diminutive thieves who travel through history, nabbing stuff, and this whimsical tale turns darker and scarier until it reaches an ending that still gives me chills.

It's a difficult role, required to anchor a mystical, dreamy story in some sense of the real, but Farrell's inherent earthiness works to balance the films more whimsical tendencies, and makes it an offbeat charmer that's a win in the uneven filmographies of both director and star.

The musical numbers extend beyond the nightclub, and often feel like whimsical indulgences rather than part of the story proper.

An all - new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll's beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.

«Tell me the story of us», Frances says to Sophie as they elaborately plot out their future in a whimsical dreamlike world.

Love, romance, nostalgia, sentimentality, and the belief that anything can happen if you just believe — these are the themes of the story, and also the essential ingredients that should be within you to enjoy this whimsical story to its fullest.

Along with the slightly whimsical style of light - hearted story - telling and a couple of head strong characters the film is propelled by the sheer will of this one young man's desire for answers to his questions.

Cuarón returns topside with «Parc Monceau,» a fantastic one - take tracking shot following Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier as they talk about a new man in her life, and Chomet's whimsical «Tour Eiffel» tells the story of a young boy whose parents are mimes.

Look forward to more weapons, challenges, and story content slapping the whimsical world of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle throughout the year for an additional 20 coins.

That's the basic premise of Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola «s obviously whimsical series of shorts for Prada, and the third and final installment has now arrived bringing the story to a close.

Despite its whimsical story and its consistent — as well as consistently dry — humor, the whole film is centered on such moments of remorse — for what has passed and for how the future is being shaped.

But the movie is low - key to a fault, adopting a casually whimsical tone that saps the story of much of its energy.

The Browns being a complete family unit in a children's story, they are naturally in dire need of saving by a whimsical guest.

The world fell in love with Pooh Bear, and Milne's joyous and whimsical stories proved to be just what the public needed after the sadness and horrors of WWI.

This Week's DVD Releases by Kam Williams Headline: Top Ten DVD List for September 20th Bridesmaids Breakfast at Tiffany's [50th Anniversary Edition] The Kennedys Dumbo [70th Anniversary Edition] Chrysanthemum... and More Whimsical Stories Baseball's Greatest Games: Derek Jeter's 3000th Hit Spooky Buddies Area 51 Scholastic Storybook Treasures: My First Collection, Volume 2 The Mentalist — The Complete Third Season Honorable Mention Body of Proof — The Complete First Season Set Up Castle — The Complete Third Season The Bachelor Party Forever Plaid I Want to See Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World Spongebob's Runaway Roadtrip Blue Sunshine Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2

Even though there's something refreshing about the director's idea of what sounds like a quirky and whimsical take on the Ranger story (as opposed to the now standard «dark and gritty» approach), the idea of the main hero being presented not as a noble and idealistic figure, but instead a possibly delusional cowboy, has not seemed all that appealing to most longtime fans of the Lone Ranger.

I understand that he's trying to make The Terminal — inspired loosely by a true story — a post-modern fairy tale (Lost in Translation for the emotionally neutered), but monumentalizing all of its unionized labour, focused in a scene where whimsical and wise Indian fugitive Gupta (Kumar Pallana, better in the superior post-modern fairy tale The Royal Tenenbaums) tells the tale of Viktor to a rapt audience of food - service workers, is trite verging on Noble Savage Syndrome.

While the literary fans will most likely be split as far as how Yates and Goldenberg have chosen to adapt the Rowling opus, fans of the movies can finally have something to smile about, and one can only hope that future film versions will continue this new trend on sticking to the basics to tell a story in an appropriately cinematic fashion, leaving the side stories and whimsical superfluous characters better left to the realm of the richly - developed book forms.

In a visually soothing array of pastel colors, it rides its loopy whimsical story in a cartoonish way till it crash lands with a feel - good ending that doesn't know how to end without overdoing its magical charm to make everything seem OK even if it's not.

Henry Selick's adaptation of one of Dahl's most beloved stories, James and the Giant Peach captures the author's spirit, creating a film with not only whimsical creatures but very real emotions.

Whereas Steven Soderbergh's movie was a moody drama about the dark underbelly of the stripper lifestyle that focused on character and story, «XXL» (which was directed by Soderbergh understudy Gregory Jacobs) is an upbeat and whimsical bro-fest that plays like a racier, bizarro version of «Entourage.»

What starts as a punchy story of a bands ill fated journey to record a new album, soon becomes a laboured, yet whimsical drama about mental health.

All of this thematic pondering is a heavy burden on the otherwise whimsical story.

In Disney's «Alice Through the Looking Glass,» an all - new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll's beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.

Another burgeoning romance between Madame Emilie (Frances de la Tour) and Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths) is repeatedly stopped in its tracks by her dog, and the two ancillary love stories offer bits of whimsical farce and screenwriter John Logan (adapting Brian Selznick's novel) the chance to flesh out the sense of kinship among the station's denizens.

(One somewhat whimsical piece of evidence that supports this story is that economies with lots of lawyers grow more slowly than economies with lots of engineers.)

«Durant's story is slyly whimsical as she builds up the world of Marbryn, a world where there are many wonders, but also threats to the existence of Blue's tribe.»

If I Could Climb Trees is a whimsical story that encourages children to explore their imaginations and see the world through the eyes of others.

In an interview on the blog Random Acts of Kindness, Mrs. Bunny, the «author» of this whimsical book, states that her husband, Mr. Bunny, does not always like how he is portrayed in the story.

In her hands, the AIDS - related death of a homosexual family member becomes the inciting incident of a whimsical, unconventional love story.

- Publishers Weekly «Clever, whimsical, and mournful, this story of an infamous villain who was once just a girl will capture plenty of hearts of its own.

Whimsical, wise, beautiful, magical, and sometimes even heartbreaking, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair.