Hyperloop, it feels fanciful to me but ... You're so nice, let's use other words besides fanciful.
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Constructed of compacted earth, stone and timber with fanciful trimming, the building gives way to courtyards, doors, a large stupa and fanciful statuary, painting and friezes.
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Men's suits — jacket, vest and pants — are equally fanciful.
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The assignment was as exceptional, fanciful, and unsound as my
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The idea of sweeping it all up might sound fanciful.
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Fanciful nostalgia, as well as crass materialism, drives the slaughter.
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But the prospect of water wars is far from fanciful.
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A second season of "Crisis in Six Scenes" seems fanciful.
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However, these storylines are driven by more than fanciful biology.
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"We do not believe that [3 percent] is something fanciful."
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From this playful exploration, a catalog of fanciful designs emerged.
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"So looking for a partner is not a fanciful thought".
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Amazing, could only have been done on a fanciful whim.
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It is a fanciful story, but its motivation is understandable.
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As fanciful as these innovations may sound, none are hypothetical.
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There's nothing "public" about Musk's fanciful approach to public transportation.
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Fanciful beliefs about British importance in the world would crumble.
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Hopes for a deal with Iran are even more fanciful.
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Thursday brings a fanciful vibe as charming Venus sextiles dreamy Neptune.
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This worldview may be distorted, but it is not wholly fanciful.
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Mr Abbas takes little comfort from the Trump administration's fanciful efforts.
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Even as the idea has gained credence, it still seems fanciful.
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Fanciful as it sounds, the ACA's best days may lie ahead.
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It suggests that Musk can turn his fanciful ideas into reality.
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The conflict, simply put, is this: Some people want fanciful parks.
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Many economists describe that notion as somewhere between fanciful and delusional.
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Developing a "photographic memory" obviates the need for fanciful mental cartography.
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Well, I'm a fanciful wench, but am I a homely one?
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It's also entirely fanciful, which was an alternative direction for drawing.
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However, liberal economists dismiss Mr. Raisi's ideas as fanciful and dangerous.
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But maybe this is a fanciful way of looking at things.
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The question might seem fanciful given the continuing chaos in Washington.
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Let's put the fanciful story of Austen's hidden writing to rest.
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There is even a fanciful bench attached to complete the ensemble.
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It also includes assertions that rights groups have dismissed as fanciful conspiracies.
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The scenario seemed fanciful even at the height of the Cold War.
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That might seem fanciful, given Mr Trump's belligerence, but for two things.
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Joaquin was fanciful, but in this truck, they enjoyed his outsized ambition.
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He noted the "fanciful arguments" about precision strikes on North Korea's facilities.
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Spokesmen for GOP House and Senate leaders dismissed that possibility as fanciful.
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Chinn said the idea of British workers plugging the gap was fanciful.
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There is some darkness, but it's very fanciful, crazy, with funny moments.
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Given their showing on draft night, though, it seems significantly less fanciful.
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That upbeat message, fanciful then, has now lost any veneer of plausibility.
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But the notion that he can single-handedly abolish agencies is fanciful.
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Toward the end, a plot point involving severed limbs is downright fanciful.
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But the British tradition of fanciful décor is as influential as ever.
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New Yorkers paid to listen to her fanciful stories about young George.
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It's based upon a fanciful mixture of real events and surreal insinuations.
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Lionsgate aimed for fanciful artistry with a golden age of Hollywood sensibility.
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Sometimes they would look alien or menacing; other times, fanciful or whimsical.
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Yet, if anything, the testimony showed how fanciful these analogies have become.
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I can spin fanciful scenarios all day, but I've given up on prognosticating.
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The idea of compliance algorithms replacing warm-blooded sleuths is fanciful, say experts.
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It relies on a fanciful, misplaced faith in the illogical idea of deterrence.
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This is fanciful: recent polls put Irish support for EU membership at 92%.
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If this sounds somewhere between fanciful and absurd to you, you're not alone.
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Because just like unicorns themselves, supplies of these fanciful brushes will vanish fast.
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Certainly, the 4 percent annual rate bandied about the Trump administration is fanciful.
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And they view any future opportunities in the "new economy" to be fanciful.
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Western diplomats still speak of Mr Assad's eventual departure, but this seems fanciful.
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Photos and video images of living Chesters are intriguingly scarce, encouraging fanciful speculation.
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Thanks to Matthew Brown's fanciful script, however, their predicament never feels remotely perilous.
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Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude.
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"The plaintiff's vague and conclusory arguments are entirely fanciful," Preston Ricardo told Gothamist.
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The summer's visionary speculations run the gamut from the fanciful to the bleak.
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Fanciful images representing the strangeness and danger of the unknown accompany geographic information.
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However fanciful, this was not the tree's only parallel to a coconut palm.
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Facts and reason have to square off against the fanciful and the fallacious.
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Could we be observing not facts but the fanciful terrors of the devout?
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Whether the texts were somber or fanciful, poignant or impish, words came first.
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Most notably, he said the president's campaign promise for the American economy seemed fanciful.
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Of course, this leads to troubles, many of which fall on the fanciful side.
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For another, the notion that individual psychology can be projected onto nations is fanciful.
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The idea of foreigners touring North Korea, crawling through their tunnels, seems fanciful. 5.
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This is why the conversation about fanciful anticonservative bias was actually quite on point.
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Fanciful as that may sound, this basic standard already exists in many developed countries.
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This seems fanciful even if Trump can bring everyone on board with tougher sanctions.
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Sometimes, we call games "trippy," or "psychedelic," meaning they have colorful, weird, fanciful aesthetics.
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To me, even if they're fanciful, those connections add an extra layer of gratification.
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The further this reconsideration goes, the more fanciful, utopian or revolutionary it might seem.
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It started with a fanciful email from one self-described science geek to another.
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A fanciful village-and-seascape, "Palermo" (1928), could have been painted by Maurice Utrillo.
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But the idea that a literal wall would stop coronavirus is fanciful at best.
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Economists and military analysts said those numbers were so exaggerated as to be fanciful.
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Between these pages, wild creatures of all kinds bring little readers into fanciful worlds.
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The idea that they might someday again be stores is beginning to feel fanciful.
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These fanciful ideas were meant to liberate employees from the drudgery of the office.
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His dancing was too fanciful to be masculine and too grotesque to be feminine.
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Obsessed with signs and words, she is as literal-minded as she is fanciful.
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More fanciful is the questionable notion, derived from Greek mythology, that Athens invented music.
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But I was equally sure nobody could "see" them with some fanciful "mind's eye," either.
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The fanciful feline struts her stuff in glitzy eyelashes, elaborate outfits and piles of jewels.
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I&aposve -- I&aposve long thought that&aposs fanciful, but I think he believes that.
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The prospect that we could ever leave these miracle fuels behind has long seemed fanciful.
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The Reaganite claim that tax cuts will pay for themselves, by encouraging work, is fanciful.
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Beard's fanciful, fictitious paintings are recourse for a community that's often invisible in historical texts.
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He said it would be "fanciful" to expect her to secure parliamentary approval for Chequers.
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But, the fanciful nature of this law becomes apparent with simple application of probability theory.
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Until a producer has signed on and money is secured, movies are just fanciful dreams.
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It's a pretty good one, though, and it keeps getting more fanciful within established strictures.
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A bit fanciful, sure — but why shouldn't science get a little crazy now and then?
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This idea is, admittedly, somewhat fanciful in the Trump administration, even with a Democratic House.
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This anchors what might otherwise seem too fanciful, while tapping into deep-seated cultural memories.
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Clearly, it's fanciful, silly and not based in reality, as it'll likely never be built.
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The idea of robots preparing food is not as fanciful as it may initially seem.
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Vickers's argument for his theory might sound fanciful if it weren't advanced with such expertise.
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When we watch demos for things like Magic Leap, they seem amazing, fanciful, and fun.
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" She opened her first collection, "A Hunger" (1988), with the fanciful, ornately wrapped "Domestic Mysticism.
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Forgeries still mingle with the artifacts in collections, Minotaur myths haunt the more fanciful restorations.
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Biden aides and allies view charges that he's making himself vulnerable to Trump as fanciful.
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This year's show will be more focused on everyday production models than fanciful concept cars.
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The idea sounded fanciful: Electric pods hurtling under the city at 150 miles per hour.
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Some, in recent years, have suggested a new Constitutional Convention, but that seems equally fanciful.
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In his view, the fanciful tale of mystic horror is also a call to genocide.
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Such a proposal seems fanciful today, but so is campaign finance reform, or greater redistribution.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Big Thief have invented a scary, fanciful musical world.
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So, perhaps Bloomberg's bid isn't as fanciful a venture as many pundits seem to think.
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But her images aren't fanciful because she made free, irrational associations like her male peers.
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Maisel for what it is not, because what it is is so fanciful and fun.
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"Trump's surreal, fanciful vision is stronger than China's … and maybe that's all that matters," he said.
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D'Amico says that behind the fanciful grandeur of Versace's designs was a tireless, practical work ethic.
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Common Ground is a fanciful kinetic art project that uses the internet to connect its pieces.
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Some fanciful headlines have claimed that the entire state of Michigan could've been swayed with $42,000.
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When even past issues are wide open, pinning down a future relationship is nigh on fanciful.
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But the idea that the vote could lead to an exit from the euro looks fanciful.
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Whatever that means: the idea of an apathetic populace interested only in material gain is fanciful.
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But if you think about it, Cafe X is nothing more than a fanciful vending machine.
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Fanciful topiary mounds and two wrought iron gates enclose the whole area, like a secret garden.
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And The Brothers Bloom is also a nice mix of fanciful wordplay and complicated heist maneuverings.
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By that time, she had begun to gravitate from abstraction toward fanciful figurative imagery, loosely brushed.
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" "If we are gonna test fanciful hypotheticals, how does HRC do against F*ckface Von Clownstick?
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If we are gonna test fanciful hypotheticals, how does HRC do against F*ckface Von Clownstick?
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In the years between high school and having children, Sando drifted between gainful and fanciful employment.
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As fanciful palace intrigue continues to dominate the headlines, he remains focused on making a difference.
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It's not Jules Verne's fanciful 22016 prediction of a moon landing a century before it occurred.
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The US and Australian allegations are fanciful and are not rooted in any evidence at all.
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QAnon people believe in fanciful ideas like, maybe it's Trump or Dan Scavino or Michael Flynn.
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Until recently, the mere notion of such industrial action at Ryanair would have been considered fanciful.
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He's given them fanciful names like Ruby Toadstools, Flea's Parasols, and, my personal favorite, Butterscotch Tinies.
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So that first version outlined an elegant—albeit fanciful—vision of the cities of the future.
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She has always loved fanciful stories, and as a child her favorites were tales about mermaids.
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The word "fantasque," originally French, is both noun (meaning fancy, fantasy) and adjective (meaning fanciful, fantastic).
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Less fanciful hazards of vaccination were alleged to include tuberculosis, madness, blood poisoning, cancer and syphilis.
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He led me to a withered hemlock, its limbs arched and fanciful, like a hidden castle.
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This interpretation might sound fanciful, but it holds more weight when you consider the phone's competition.
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Even before Disney, Reiniger told fanciful stories in animated films with her hand-cut paper silhouettes.
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They may evoke memories or, for those on the younger end of the spectrum, fanciful daydreams.
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On each lovely page, Zunon collages realistic images of the family alongside fanciful, mythical-looking animals.
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Ms. Venn Frederic said the appeal of the dress was in its "fanciful and disruptive" character.
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My framer is regularly asked to follow through on choices that might seem fanciful, even dramatic.
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Although this will sound fanciful, it would represent the literal opposite of "America First"-type tribalism.
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Potter's artwork will remind you of classic Maira Kalman: warm, colorful, somehow both fanciful and sophisticated.
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The president's goal of raising crude production by around 50% by 20143, from 1.7m today, looks fanciful.
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But its claim to pay for the cuts with a sustained rise in economic growth is fanciful.
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Attempts to make Facebook an infrastructure provider have arguably so far failed as either abortive or fanciful.
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Digital advances in the years since have constantly threatened to make Toffler's fanciful vision a real one.
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A fanciful scheme for "food self-sufficiency" would include price guarantees for crops produced by southern farmers.
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There are lots of fanciful renderings and prototypes, lots of pulled-off covers and pointing of spotlights.
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GOP leaders always understood that pledge as fanciful, even as they cautiously avoided saying so out loud.
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He does an impressive, fanciful run before dividing headfirst into the sea — about two feet below him.
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It is neither fanciful nor an exaggeration to say that, without encryption tools, lives may be endangered.
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The fanciful stone-covered house was built in 1899 for a family from Lisbon, 14 miles east.
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After a dismal campaign, early forecasts of a 212-seat majority for her Conservative Party proved fanciful.
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"Le Volcan" involves staged comical scenes with people in fanciful costumes acting out magic ceremonies and séances.
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It's fanciful, however, to imagine that he could have recast the course of Iranian and Shia history.
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The notion of West Coast states leaving the United States is fanciful and often tongue-in-cheek.
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Making use of his pastry training, he delighted the eye with fanciful forms and striking color combinations.
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That Trump could be the next president of the United States is no longer a fanciful notion.
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Strengthening American workers' collective bargaining power, among the weakest in the rich industrialized world, seems equally fanciful.
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And the notion that the Eurosceptic third of her party will now simply shut up is fanciful.
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The possibility is far from fanciful with the Democratic nominee again under federal investigation before election day.
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But experts noted that the $110 billion figure is exaggerated while the $450 billion figure is fanciful.
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The new animated film "Isle of Dogs," emerging from the fanciful sensibility of Wes Anderson, seemed promising.
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Economists — at least, ones who aren't on the White House payroll — generally find that assumption rather fanciful.
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From the realistic to the fanciful to the far-fetched, those picks prepare the Jets for chaos.
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It reveled in the prosaic heartbreaks of day-to-day life, without much surrealism or fanciful reprieve.
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The Bastable stories were strikingly original in children's literature because, even if fanciful, they were not supernatural.
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Some are splashed with fanciful ostrich poufs, while others sport African peacock feathers or handmade silk flowers.
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Sarah Ruhl's fanciful comedy-drama about middle-aged couples experimenting with polyamory finishes its Lincoln Center run.
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That may sound fanciful, given that UConn (24-22) has not lost a game since November 210.
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This isn't a matter of rigged statistics, political spinning or fanciful alternate realities, but one of measurement.
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So the idea that Chinese firms have some technology gems of their own to offer may seem fanciful.
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That makes scenario 263.9, which assumes massive cuts to spending programs that benefit the rich, a bit fanciful.
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The ship is creakier and less fanciful than the sleek vessels most sci-fi movies give us today.
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The yearly spectacular has become synonymous with sex appeal, with the fanciful designs getting more elaborate each year.
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He has a fanciful goal of bringing Iran's oil exports, currently 2.5m barrels per day, down to zero.
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The scenery and costumes — by Marcel Dzama, an artist with his own hip associations — are extravagant and fanciful.
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It could be that Mr Trump will make his sums add up with fanciful projections for economic growth.
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Bamboo-and-silk constructions lit from inside and depicting fanciful creatures from Chinese mythology hung in the atrium.
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The idea that Russian hackers could potentially be doing this to me is a fanciful liberal pipe dream!
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Elon Musk's fanciful Hyperloop may never be built, but let's give him credit for capturing our collective imaginations.
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Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman, also has a colorful and fanciful find for the moms in your life.
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With the fanciful headlight and taillight shapes, this car feels like it's working very hard to be fun.
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I went to the drugstore last night, and I got this fanciful – I don't know what it is.
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Whether Ms Grande's and Lady Gaga's fanciful lyrics count as opinions or falsehoods, the government has not said.
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But the live-action series was, in its own way, stranger and more fanciful than its animated predecessors.
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Russia's state media and proxies denied Russia's involvement in the Skripal poisoning and offered some fanciful alternative theories.
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You are interested in making your movie... But you do hear a million fanciful rumors all the time.
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And her foremost concern is not to be treated as some fanciful bauble to delight a bland executive.
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I think of self-control as the real thing that should replace that fanciful idea of free will.
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Jarmusch is the rare filmmaker who can be fanciful and surrealist while remaining firmly in the real world.
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Now the Obama administration is making similarly fanciful claims to win congressional approval for a Trans-Pacific Partnership .
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In recent years Amazon and Alphabet have both shown off fanciful campus ideas that could woo potential employees.
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Students of this new practice are doing away with flashy qipao dresses, frivolous accessories, and fanciful hand movements.
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Bright beaded earrings and bracelets with fanciful details, like bedazzled hearts and daisies, are pretty much sartorial smiles.
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Some of this nonsense would be fanciful, maybe even funny, but for the real impact it is having.
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We're stuck piecing together the truth from archaeology and the fanciful writings of observers like the ancient Greeks.
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Over the past decade Five Ton Crane has brought charming art cars and fanciful installations to Burning Man.
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It sounds fanciful, but the more I read about Fresco's work and ideas, the more intrigued I became.
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That's the kind of fanciful leap I tend not to be able to make with live animals onstage.
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As fanciful as this idea might sound, it's time to invoke NATO's Article 5 to tackle the virus.
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La DoubleJ, the fashion and housewares brand of J. J. Martin, introduced a fanciful tableware collection called Housewives.
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At the center of "Perfect Skill" is a male duet, performed naked, which is more farcical than fanciful.
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Thus, the UNRWA policy of perpetuating the fanciful dream of a right of a return is a failure.
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On Point Amina Muaddi's fanciful pumps are celebrity favorites, and some of the season's most sought-after designs.
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But this year's fair doesn't quite feel as free spirited as that, not as fanciful and experimental either.
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Some political commentators like to describe fanciful proposals they view as wildly unrealistic as "puppies and rainbows" plans.
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Beasts, serpents, and fanciful little creatures, additionally, crawl throughout the curves and spaces between the text and letters.
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That makes scenario three, which assumes massive cuts to spending programs that benefit the rich, a bit fanciful.
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Jetpacks aren't a completely fanciful idea, with daredevils demonstrating amazing aeronautical feats in the US and across the world.
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" There is always a middle ground that Rebellion has to negotiate between what is real and is fanciful "fun.
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"It's in a grouping with Parrish's fanciful figures perched on rocks," said Karl Emil Willers, the Nassau museum's director.
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"That DNI Coats was surprised, and his fanciful reaction, is what is most alarming to people," the source said.
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In this grim context, her fanciful diversions are just that, diversions, when what this family really needs is solutions.
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Almost two years ago Mr Trump released a fanciful but relatively detailed plan for lower tax rates (see blog).
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Such a vision certainly may seem far-off or fanciful, but we shouldn't dismiss an idea on strangeness alone.
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The topic of Vlach magic quickly began to overshadow the less fanciful and more logical explanations for the murders.
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When she performs, she puts on the war paint, and usually goes in for fanciful costumes and serious heels.
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The fanciful reframing makes for a compelling exercise, and it underscores Renaissance art's very real debt to Islamic civilizations.
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Moreover, I saw that their core missions were not vague or fanciful, but were actually tangible, identifiable, and achievable.
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Braghieri posted a video of Marta on his Facebook page, along with a fanciful description of their night together.
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The final section includes an example of Le Brun's landscape painting, a topographically fanciful depiction of a Swiss festival.
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That's something Tesla would have probably wanted to avoid, given his proclivity for boastful, and perhaps sometimes fanciful, statements.
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Fanciful as that might sound, something a bit like it is happening right now in the world of electricity.
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In many cases, fanciful and high-concept pop-ups have followed wellness retailers to SoHo and its surrounding streets.
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In this syndrome the person tells lies or fanciful exaggerations of the truth presumably to garner attention and appreciation.
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"The idea is to you know have a sort of fanciful version of life and the world," Ferguson says.
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Yet, any number of catastrophes could render them irrelevant as fanciful playthings that no longer justify their mammoth resources.
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Pettibon's coarsely robust picturing and suavely refined prose do the same, but for initiates who are more strictly fanciful.
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The idea of commencing this accelerator program with a trip to southeast Alaska is a fanciful one, no doubt.
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Fascinated by human faces and inner states of mind, he specialized in surreal, fanciful and distorted portraits of heads.
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The notion may have always been fanciful, and by late Thursday, President Trump seemed to have ruled it out.
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The notion may have always been fanciful, and by late Thursday, President Trump seemed to have ruled it out.
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Those ideas could potentially be popular, but they're also radical and easily dismissed by critics as harmful or fanciful.
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But visitors who succeeded in rising from its velvety depths found many other big, fanciful couches to try out.
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Some, with flares of color and receding grids adrift on airy gray grounds, are infectiously free-spirited and fanciful.
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The idea that it would now acquiesce to the United Kingdom's cherrypicking for the two-year transition is fanciful.
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"Madame X," her new album, her 14th, is darker than usual, though it also includes fanciful summer love songs.
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Wertz lovingly sketches each inch of these structures' decorative arches and fanciful wrought iron in her singular black line.
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But his ruminative visions of nude women were deemed pornographic and too fanciful for such a public, erudite setting.
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Where none could be found, they invented new ones or created fanciful etymologies tracing borrowed words to supposed Turkish origins.
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" The band took their name from a fanciful dildo that appears in the beat novelist William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch.
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The birds are housed in the Lawn Aviary: four screened enclosures topped with fanciful domes that were built in 2400.
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But if we can't shake free from our fanciful political ideals, it can be hard to tell up from down.
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The idea that landowners and farmers will let the land "degenerate into scrubland" is fanciful when land prices have skyrocketed.
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And in the run-up to the release, Square Enix has released a new trailer showing off the fanciful RPG.
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He recently posted on Facebook a (perhaps fanciful) map showing how they would transform Honduras into the Americas' "logistics centre".
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But in retrospect, it turns out that the notion he was going to stay in the deal was always fanciful.
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"New Jersey" (2019) presents another pastoral landscape — horizontal, green, rich with fanciful vegetation, a fantastic city gleaming on the horizon.
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In February 2015, when Mr Cunha trounced Ms Rousseff's candidate in the speakership contest, this outcome would have seemed fanciful.
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The notion that the United States could solve all of its problems with Tehran by toppling the regime is fanciful.
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The fanciful tactic the chairman is reportedly contemplating reflects just how much he relishes his role as a newspaper owner.
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It is especially puzzling because this isn't a fanciful idea — states have been road-testing it for over a decade.
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Such is the hyperbolic, and perhaps fanciful, perception of Villanova (28-5) as a throwback team chock-full of veterans.
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Those foundational precepts look more and more fanciful as acute conditions of economic inequality and democratic deficit continue to deepen.
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This is The Grand Paradise, an immersive theater-dance experience from the fanciful and inventive artists of Third Rail Projects.
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Given that France already has national health care, a minimum wage and generous social welfare programs, this is not fanciful.
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Taylor Swift arrived on the red carpet in a fanciful glass pumpkin-shaped Cinderella coach, wearing a glittering silver gown.
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And Breckinridge was mired in debt, so the $50,000 in damages Pollard sought was little more than a fanciful number.
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With a few fanciful exceptions, the garments in the paintings reflect those worn by the people of Kyoto and Edo.
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The hexagons of honeycomb, as drawn by Arsenault, seem so perfect as to be fanciful precisely when they are fact.
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And that's an important thing to keep in mind as he pushes fanciful theories that have no basis in reality.
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Laborers lay grass sod, construct stone walls, and assemble the fanciful faux-stone sculptures favored by many of these suburbanites.
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And our attention is drawn, at inordinate length, to landscapes that look too fanciful to be rooted in the real.
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For most of 85033, the idea of bipartisan health care reform coming to Washington seemed fanciful if not outright crazy.
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The couple is known for their elaborate murals of fanciful tree houses, which they create under the name Wooden Wave.
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And it seems fanciful to think we can live in such a complex world without regulators empowered to interpret regulation.
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With her first museum retrospective, the artist (and fashion muse) talks about confecting fanciful works with a core of steel.
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It's Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero transposed into virtual reality and translated into an intuitive, fanciful means of interaction.
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One response to these complexities is to abandon the quest for civility, deeming it a historically fanciful, hopelessly imprecise ideal.
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CRAMER: AND HOW QUICKLY ARE NOW YOU ON YOUR GOAL TOWARD 200 BILLION, WHICH WE THOUGHT WAS FANCIFUL AT FIRST?
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In addition to the many solo exhibitions Ms. Daitz mounted, she had a taste for group shows on fanciful themes.
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But the surprises of this ambitiously conceived, modestly realized work are pretty much over once you've accepted its fanciful premise.
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A few indie puzzles treat solvers to fanciful clues in this vein, but most crossword venues don't go this route.
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He has never had any time for those of his peers who talk about fanciful ideals or high-minded philosophies.
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A few even threw in their lot with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate with only a fanciful shot at the presidency.
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Jetpacks aren't a completely fanciful idea, and daredevils have been demonstrating amazing aeronautical feats in the US and across the world.
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These are all fanciful hacking techniques, pushing the expectation of what can be achieved and what is vulnerable in cybersecurity today.
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And some think the whole endeavor is fanciful, or at least a puzzle we can safely leave for the 22nd century.
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It has become something of a tradition for American companies to concoct ever more fanciful excuses for missing their profit targets.
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" In his Ninth Circuit opinion, Judge Tashima said that his examples of possible prosecutions "are not some parade of fanciful horribles.
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I loved the fanciful clothes, the coiffed hair, the exuberant set dressings that look like a spread out of Flair magazine.
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Our own modeling at RMS suggests an economic loss greater than $15 billion from storm surges alone is far from fanciful.
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His fifties works are "wonderful and fanciful—Warhol before he became the Warhol that everyone came to know," De Salvo said.
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As in the Apple and Gabriel plays, food is an anchor, grounding abstract and fanciful talk in the reality of subsistence.
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Although some districts are tiny — the one named Garfield Place essentially covers a single block — they are filled with fanciful designs.
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At the avant-garde retail temple Opening Ceremony, which opened in 22017, fanciful sneakers, slippers and oxfords greatly outnumber high heels.
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Whereupon a heavenly messenger providentially intercedes and shows him, in fanciful fashion, what the town would have been like without him.
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Where the show really stumbles is Gursky's more fanciful digital works, sequestered to the last room in the top floor's galleries.
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The show presents about 70 paintings from the mid-1990s to the present, and among the best are two fanciful landscapes.
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Banks were freed to merge and sell risky, bizarre, and fanciful new products (think consolidated debt obligations and credit default swaps).
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In many ways Chopin's variations fall into the then-standard category of light, fanciful, unabashedly brilliant showpieces for piano and orchestra.
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Until it can do both, it seems fanciful that an autonomous car could navigate the real world without help from humans.
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Our eyes pop as the table is covered with fanciful little sweets with the grace of a jeweler showing off gems.
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While others put forth big and fanciful ideas, Mr. Smith's proposal was politically palatable and constitutionally sound: reparations through educational support.
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The Art Nouveau exterior, dating to the store's founding in 1925, is a marvel of fluid ironwork and fanciful stained glass.
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The "Oz" books are full of fanciful characters, bizarre situations and odd detours, and this series promises to be as well.
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Include examples of ways that A.I. is already being used as well as ways that might be theoretical or even fanciful.
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She dipped to wash her arms in it, even her face—she was fanciful and ecstatic, and she loved long grass.
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Private companies have learned how to game the system through a combination of over-promising, threats of retaliation and fanciful accounting.
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Most ostentatious is the women's designer section, which is thick with fanciful and often astonishingly expensive clothes, from Marni to Monse.
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It turns out that there are infinite ways — succinct and expansive, subtle and fanciful — for turkey-minded Americans to do that.
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In between stands a fanciful construction all Astana's own: one of the "ice cities" that dot the freezing capital in winter.
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Officially, the N.R.A. does not oppose the development of smart-gun technology, but it frames the idea as fanciful or dangerous.
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With Twitter reporting that 110 billion emojis have been tweeted since 53, the idea isn't as fanciful as it might seem.
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S. jurisdictions, in reaction to the administration's new industrial and trade policies, won't trigger their own economic and policy levers — is fanciful.
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A less fanciful view is that American GDP growth might top 2% this year, a bit better than is expected for Europe.
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What seems expansive and defiant in comfortable foreign-policy salons in Europe's west is, to Baltic leaders, not just fanciful but irresponsible.
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More fanciful Brexiteers even claim that the EU owes Britain money for its share in the capital of the European Investment Bank.
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"To me, it's just fanciful thinking," Sam Sternberg, an assistant professor in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University, told BuzzFeed News.
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This tradition — which typically takes place on the weekend between June 20 and 26 — has a fanciful look that's made for Instagram.
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This is the time when those enviably chubby cheeks and on-trend gamine hairstyles are complimented by all manner of fanciful dress.
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The patient was a fanciful 17th-century pendant having its enamel analysed in order to find the actual date of its creation.
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The Cross Turismo is a so-called concept study rather than a production-ready design, and it's full of fanciful design touches.
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We are likely to see more headlines about the failure of the fanciful investments and philanthropic investments of billionaires, Mr. Sorkin says.
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She has vague and fanciful designs, for example, on working to pass federal legislation that will somehow increase police accountability and transparency.
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Seating thousands of spectators, the theaters were decorated in a fanciful array of styles, including art deco, art nouveau, and ancient Egyptian.
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My desire to continue to live in my imagination contributed to my love for fairy tales and myths, the most fanciful genre.
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Even a year ago, before the rise of a social democratic candidate for president, the question would have sounded fanciful and moribund.
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It's worth asking why those characteristics should have value but something colorful and fanciful and meant for kids and better should not.
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As in most V.R. video games, players in Kitchen and Surgeon Simulator move in fanciful ways and are, at best, semi-embodied.
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Ms. Heder, author, most recently, of the picture book "Fraidyzoo," will lead children in creating fanciful adornments from recycled Navy Yard materials.
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Man Ray designed this set in 1920 to honor his close friend, with typically fanciful touches (the knight is a violin finial).
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Amazon's patent filings hint at even more fanciful possibilities — drones could ferry packages between tiny depots housed on light poles, for example.
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It seems as if the relocation has been provoked by Stacey's (apparently fanciful) sense that someone was shooting at her former home.
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The least punishing, least cruel, most fun, fanciful, sensual, adventurous films — the queerest — tend to be the work of the practicing queers.
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As fanciful as it is — and as difficult to quote in a family newspaper — the narrative is rooted in the author's experience.
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I loved fanciful books, medieval stories with jousting knights or wild adventures with pirates and plenty of romance in the South Sea.
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On "The Mayor," the new ABC sitcom, a rapper runs for mayor — and wins — and I don't find it even slightly fanciful.
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All this may seem a bit fanciful and unlikely to transpire, considering how soon this would take us to the 2018 midterms.
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But the European Union, and other international institutions and ratings services, have deemed Italian growth projections to be fanciful and overly optimistic.
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In that scenario (fanciful, I realize), both President Trump and Vice President Pence would be at risk of being impeached and removed.
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" But the novel also epitomizes the transgressiveness that was once so daring and now, as Barnes acknowledges, "seems fanciful, decorative, egotistical camp.
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Filled with casual omens — a snake tumbling from a ceiling; a gun-store clerk warning of danger — Heidi's search grows increasingly fanciful.
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That may lead to renewed talk of the fanciful notion of a bipartisan compromise between the more moderate elements of each party.
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"The Golden Cockerel"—new to the company this season—is also a throwback, to the fanciful storybook exoticism of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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But the leader of the separatist Scottish National Party group of the council, Stephen Flynn, told Reuters such a suggestion was "fanciful".
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Theater Sarah Ruhl's fanciful comedy-drama about middle-aged couples experimenting with polyamory will finish its Lincoln Center run on May 7.
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"Why not do events that are fun and whimsical?" asked Koopersmith, determined to complement traditional holidays with days a little more fanciful.
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Before Erica Prince started facilitating playful, fanciful Transformational Makeovers, the Brooklyn-based multimedia artist considered herself a maker of inanimate objects and images.
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The stories were initially dismissed as fanciful, or, later, overshadowed by reports of other atrocities, such as the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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When fanciful words that I'm familiar with by proximity — Muggle, Hufflepuff, Dumbledore — started to creep in, my eyes half-rolled off the page.
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Ms. Marzollo wrote more than 21968 children's books, some factual, some fanciful, all imparting skills and information to young — often very young — readers.
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The slippery slope worries are "fanciful", their lawyers write, and the court should ignore the "fairy-tale monsters" imagined by MNN's legal team.
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The hypothesis that he may have been attacked was equally fanciful because Mr. Violier owned guns and could have defended himself, he said.
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This is despite the fact that the brain-reading technology it relies upon is, at this point, little more than a fanciful blueprint.
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Rochard, the godson of a jewelry maker, clearly intended to produce a masterpiece that was highly fanciful, intriguing, and reflective of new technologies.
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Below are some similar styles you can shop now to get your fanciful sweat outfit in order for your New Year Eve's festivities.
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That off-hand comment at Google's I/O conference spurred a fanciful take in Wired about what a "Google Island" may look like.
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Together, we're shining the spotlight on body hair by highlighting it in fanciful, frivolous ways, using materials both whimsical (confetti) and natural (moss).
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The New York Times review judged "fanciful" the theory that Sadr, however charismatic, could have reversed the course of Iranian and Shia history.
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A custom couture wedding dress would be stunning on any bride, but for the majority of the population, it's a pretty fanciful concept.
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In March, Donald Trump raised the fanciful notion that he would require Israel to repay the United States for the aid it received.
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In the FCC's fanciful theory, the FTC's framework governs online businesses, websites and advertisers while its own rules govern ISPs, and only ISPs.
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A slim chapter deals with his "Allegory of the Cave," a fanciful story in which Plato deals with knowing reality, among other things.
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Soda taxes, once a fanciful cause of amateur health crusaders and academics like Dr. Brownell, have drawn the support of politically active billionaires.
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Such a grim scenario might seem fanciful, yet Syria has been blown apart by such a proxy war during the past eight years.
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By contrast, politicians are confronted by a multitude of erroneous assertions and fanciful rumours, yet can't reliably tell which ones are galvanising voters.
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Court-packing is just a fanciful idea for now, but it's clearly gaining traction; it may well grow into a bona fide movement.
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There was also no evidence for this fanciful notion, but Flynn pushed his analysts at DIA to find a link that didn't exist.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In a dream mix for sweet-toothed fashionistas, models strutted the catwalk in Brussels draped in fanciful clothes made with chocolate.
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It was mostly interested in the titillating idea of fanciful young girls who had been brainwashed by a demon into doing absolutely anything.
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It's a paradox that brands with fanciful names that don't otherwise exist in common language have stronger cases when applying for a trademark.
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Show Us Your Wall The story of how Alice S. Kandell discovered Tibetan Buddhist art sounds like the plot of a fanciful movie.
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I loved the oddest one, small and square, tannish gold, with arches, a second-floor balcony, a red tiled roof, a fanciful chimney.
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Indeed, the worst part about the GOP's bluster and fanciful inventions in the impeachment hearings is that we're still only in act one.
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In 2010, he started a second line, Technobohemian, that featured Italian-made sportswear like woven shirts in fanciful patterns, cotton pants and ties.
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When the extent of the tragedy emerged, Russia went into overdrive pumping out alternative versions, most of them fanciful and most blaming Ukraine.
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But never mind.) In the course of her acts of voyeuristic virtue, Amélie sets eyes on the equally fanciful Nino (Adam Chanler-Berat).
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Sad news first: The best black bean soup in recent memory is history, and so is the fanciful mural of a sunny Havana.
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The idea that Salman, after repeated denials, would suddenly say "OK, I did it!" to Trump in a phone call is totally fanciful.
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Leiber was best known for her fanciful evening bags, often made in the shapes of animals or flowers and bedecked with intricate beading.
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For years he has treated Neza as his personal laboratory, trying a wild mix of hard-nosed reforms, harebrained schemes and fanciful experiments.
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Punctuated with drawn hearts, Tyler emphasizes news in fanciful hand-lettered text about the Beatles returning to Chicago with playful bolding and caps.
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"NoNoseKnows" is punctuated by fanciful vignettes in which a bubble filled with smoke floats around a room with walls painted in bright colors.
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First off, the idea that Americans know exactly how much they're willing to pay, in advance, to the dollar, is a little fanciful.
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Thus completes the chaotic circle of governance by Trump and the GOP Congress: fanciful promises, contradictory priorities, presidential provocations that Republicans won't rein in.
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Illustration: Emoji BuilderOr take a look at this fanciful depiction of Mark Zuckerberg being unable to stop the verbal vomit spewing from his mouth.
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"To expect Iran to have no influence in Iraq is fanciful," Burt said in an interview with Reuters at the British Embassy in Baghdad.
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But as top Republicans increasingly lose hope that anyone can beat Trump outright, the remaining scenarios for stopping him are necessarily fanciful and unprecedented.
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On their fourth album, reunited after an extended hiatus, the fanciful Swedish country-folk duo demonstrates what it means to love at a distance.
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And the idea of obtaining people's heart rate, body temperature, and breaths per minute with a quick scan of your camera is simply fanciful.
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We should (always) pursue a fanciful ideal, proven wrong repeatedly in socialist experiments, making an imagined perfect the enemy of the actual pretty good.
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If you're worried that this Tiguan GTE Active is just a fanciful concept designed to get dieselgate off VW's back, don't be so skeptical.
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These are big fanciful ideas, no doubt, self-serious, but also not, constantly undercut but the casualness with which he recounts all of it.
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I was not yet fully cognizant of the extent of my illness; a $1000 IV drip, however, will dissuade anyone of that fanciful notion.
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The writer-director Maggie Betts circled the fanciful Japanese garden: a white plastic tree, a pink wooden border, a glowing disk for a moon.
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"The wraps can be flamingos or Tiffany boxes," she said, describing some of the more fanciful overlays that buildings have chosen for their lockers.
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Enough of the Clinton book pity-tour or fanciful stories about Russia and Trump and fake anti-health care reform protests on Capitol Hill.
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So why go through the trouble of making a crepe cake, the fanciful dessert of custard and cream-kissed crepes stacked into a tower?
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Gardephe said that even if Aly's "fanciful" story were true, he would still be liable for ignoring obvious signs that the bid was fake.
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My visiting cakes might be Bundt cakes, simple yet often fanciful, with swirls, stripes and crenelations molded into the pans they are baked in.
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The idea that the situation will stabilize in a few weeks -- when most experts say that much, much worse is to come -- appears fanciful.
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He was famous for his rapid-fire one-liners, surreal flights of fancy, use of fanciful words like "tattyfilarious" and marathon stand-up shows.
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The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero.
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But diplomats on both sides of the border and immigration experts say the president's demand for a total end to illegal immigration is fanciful.
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The fanciful plot leads to some absurd scenes, such as Mr. Mahoney trying to fold himself onto Peter's chair as the lithe Rita would.
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But USA Hockey officials have a fanciful target in mind: 22 in 2000, or American goalies playing 51 percent of N.H.L. minutes by 2030.
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The technology is fanciful: Marie can track Sara, see through her eyes, even adjust the settings so Sara perceives frightening images as pixelated blurs.
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Locals who knew nothing of his criminal record called him Bingo Bruce, and recalled a host of fanciful stories he told about his past.
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He would later call such paintings the "heights of repression," and as the 219s progressed he veered away from realistic reproductions into fanciful imagery.
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Goddard's fanciful gowns, often constructed from hundreds of meters of ruched and ruffled tulle or cotton, are designed for twirling around a dance floor.
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Given our country's fiscal conditions, the jobs program should be paid for — and not with fanciful growth claims some use to justify tax cuts.
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There were also more fanciful stories to be written, about subjects like Meghan Markle's sparkly tiara and whether any corgis would be in attendance.
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So many books these days offer kids social-emotional counsel; this one delivers down-to-earth ideas in a refreshingly direct yet fanciful package.
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After intermission, the performance of the Eighth Symphony was alive with color, fanciful flights, elegiac sadness and, in the rousing finale, almost frenzied abandon.
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We'll indulge all these folks with this fanciful notion that we'll somehow pass a DACA bill with 218 Republican votes — and then unicorns fly.
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The other substantial Boucher here — stormier, but just as fanciful — is "The Triumph of Venus" (1740), a precisely calibrated explosion of flesh and fluids.
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The district is already home to a handful of gleaming apartment and condo buildings, but it may soon get its most fanciful project yet.
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Fanciful mysticism and anchoring reality coexist less comfortably in "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage" than they do in other works by Ms. Ruhl.
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The line meanders, but it also echoes what is on either side, suggesting a series of eccentric, drifting lines across a fanciful topographic map.
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Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 617 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts.
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So come Oscar night, Ms. Rampling is as likely to show up in a fanciful ball gown as Donald Trump is to shave his head.
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"We aren't proposing anything fanciful," Sanchez told a news conference at the energy and environment ministry, which he merged when he took power in June.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you were writing a script about Ricky Gervais' life, it would probably be rejected for having too many fanciful plot twists.
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It is reasonable that people hundreds of years ago believed in things we deem fanciful today, considering they lacked centuries of scientific progress and technology.
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Fox said on Tuesday a group of politicians was seeking to influence the CMA, adding they were making "a number of unsupported and fanciful assertions".
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Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 65553 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts.
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Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 16 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts.
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But although most congressional Republicans support such "dynamic scoring", they have little appetite for completely fanciful analysis, says Andy Laperriere of Cornerstone Macro, a consultancy.
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The proposals that Brogan BamBrogan and Andrew Liu showed Shailen Bhatt promised a fanciful world: highways moving ten times more vehicles than they do now.
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There were some prolific riders during that era and, it being the '20113s, they were marketed a tad like pro wrestlers, complete with fanciful nicknames.
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I am not optimistic that "heroic policymakers" will be able to resist "ramping-up" pressure on citizens that resist their good-intentioned, but fanciful policies.
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That idea had seemed fanciful, but Kenneth Suslick at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thinks he has found a way to do it.
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Isabelle Arsenault's richly graphic illustrations for "Just Because" perfectly meld the fanciful and the literal — just the way a child's imagination does, the judges felt.
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This may sound fanciful, but there's solid research — on everything ranging from military intervention to human rights trials in Latin America — to back it up.
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This fanciful notion, imported from Mr. Trump's debt-steeped real estate world, would undermine faith in the government and the stability of global financial markets.
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"The Get Down," a fanciful origin story of hip-hop in the Bronx, presents it as the year a new urban culture impossibly took flight.
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Downstairs is comfortable but less fanciful, except for an Italianate elegant marble bathroom and a master bedroom whose walls are covered with heavy Russian velvet.
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The series, shot almost entirely on location, shifts its setting and focus every episode, mapping the city in the fanciful manner of a medieval cartographer.
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His fulminations were a fanciful extension of the Republican Party's concern, despite all evidence to the contrary, that American elections are riddled with voter fraud.
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A city councilman from Cincinnati chastises Democrats for ceding the economic argument to Trump, who spoke about trade, jobs, and industry only in fanciful generalities.
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Just as fanciful are the designs on the sugar cookies: In summer, they are flip flops and mermaids; in winter, ice skates and knit caps.
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Fact-based journalism is not-so-slowly going by the wayside to be replaced by fanciful social media threads and personal blogs disguised as news.
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Although to go back that far, to cave man times, you know, tens of thousands of years, that's going to be largely fanciful I think.
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A fanciful but plausible notion is that life did originate on Mars, then traveled to Earth via meteorites, and we are all descendants of Martians.
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This seemed like a totally fanciful possibility to Sorenson herself, but she wasn't blind to its inspirational potency: Flip the Hillary districts, flip the house.
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He wanted to dream big, even when his family was telling him that a life out in the open was not only fanciful but dangerous.
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Smart yet fanciful, it enticed a "Bachelor"-enamored audience dying to know how the sausage was made, and earned the network its first Peabody Award.
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What it wants restored never existed, but is instead a fanciful rendering of some self-consoling yesteryear; that is, after all, the seduction of nostalgia.
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Mr. Rael wrote "Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary" (2017) on alternatives to President Trump's wall, most serious but some fanciful.
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Mr. Dahl revised their portrayal in later editions of the work, turning the Oompa Loompas into fanciful dwarflike creatures from a made-up country, Loompaland.
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Many of next year's seem to be fanciful propositions, or strategic plays designed to force the G.O.P. to spend resources where it would rather not.
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I met a caricaturist named José Manuel who showed me some of the fanciful cartoons he has published of my great-grandmother with her statue.
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Allied officials dismissed those assertions as fanciful, especially given the deplorable behavior of Hoechst, the German chemical manufacturer that developed the insecticide, during the war.
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This summer, the staple, which in years past has tended toward '90s minimalism, is significantly punched up by way of the season's fanciful tropical prints.
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The avocado gado gado—made with soft-boiled quail eggs, radish, and edible flowers—is a fanciful play on a traditional, usually heartier Indonesian salad.
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In an era when hyperpartisan news sources dominate political discourse, fanciful and factually challenged political narratives spread like wildfire, radicalizing millions of Americans' political leanings.
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Blumenthal's meal summoned a similarly eerie poignancy as we feasted on these refined, fanciful renderings of dishes rooted in the residue of a lost city.
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It's about a tiny man who whispers words into the ears of the sleeping, transporting them into incredible, fanciful dreamscapes, worlds where anything is possible.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India made his career by propagating Hindutva, a fanciful Hindu nationalism that extols Indian civilization before the arrival of Muslims.
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Compounding the author's challenge is the need to distinguish between speculation, ideas that might be verified in the future, and what is just fanciful thinking.
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Much more fanciful, at least in the United States, is a universal basic income, in which the government gives everyone a guaranteed amount of money.
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Wearing the fanciful hats that are her trademark, Ms. Motoya appears in advertisements for APA's hotels and "APA president" merchandise like curry and rice crackers.
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His work dates back to the 1920s, where amid an explosion of fanciful literature, the Chinese martial arts were ripe for a sober historical assessment.
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To fund President Donald Trump's fanciful plans for a massive southern border wall, his administration is scrounging around in the budgets of current US government programs.
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Andy Warhol, Seven Illustrated Books (1952-1959) compiles what are arguably Warhol's most personal works, with their quirky drawings and handwritten texts exemplifying his fanciful musings.
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Though still "fanciful," machines capable of non-invasive diagnosis are "becoming a reality," wrote Leachman and Merlino, neither of whom was involved in the new study.
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Not so monetary policy under the auspices of the ECB, although the Frankfurt-based bank's evolution over the last 250 years would also have seemed fanciful.
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The film's diverse cast and crew stands to help mitigate any chagrin over how much less fanciful and more serious this new Mulan appears to be.
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The fanciful way that black-ish was able to connect to a culture in which people struggle to see the humanity in women's sexuality was perfect.
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And the more fanciful, playful, and experimental moments of the original have similarly been erased in favor of animals standing around looking like nature-documentary shots.
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The "renegotiation" of Britain's EU membership pursued by David Cameron, the prime minister, has been a fanciful exercise designed to keep his Conservative Party in check.
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And there are more fanciful speculations too, like the idea that moondust, in its undisturbed state, may be arranged in fragile, porous structures called fairy castles.
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But all have the potential to be terrifying in their own way, whether your biggest fears are more immediate and grounded or more fanciful and supernatural.
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That means you don't need some fanciful occasion to test-drive this look: These outfits prove this eye-grabbing number fits perfectly into your everyday wardrobe.
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Young readers should enjoy looking at the fanciful details, like Maya's "tall as a Sycamore" grandmother shown as half woman, half tree, rooted to the ground.
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The drawings, which show Giacometti sculptures coming to life within the rooms of the home of the artist's parents, are fanciful, on topic and beautifully executed.
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The city is a fanciful, often romantic hodgepodge of architectural influences that offers a brick-by-brick timeline of occupiers: Persians, Byzantines, Ottomans, Russians and Soviets.
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Here are six shows, from a neo-circus extravaganza to a fanciful play for the littlest ones in your family, that will keep young eyes wide.
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While many of Gessner's renderings of sea animals are spectacularly fanciful due to a lack of verifiable observations, he really nailed the morphology of the octopus.
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It's sometimes called "hack porn," where fanciful and obscure hacking techniques are covered like they're drive-by downloads, or nation states are hacking everyone en masse.
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British war comics seem to be quite factually accurate, based on actual battles and realistic drawings, whereas American ones tend to be a lot more fanciful.
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Folly Soap by the New York product and lighting design firm Pelle offers soap in simple geometric forms inspired by fanciful buildings ($16 to $80 each).
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Some removal technologies are more fanciful than others, but as for which are most viable, it could be argued that none are, at least not yet.
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Her story is told, in Stein's inimitably gnomic text, as a series of quasi-perplexing episodes mashing made-up characters with fanciful versions of historical figures.
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Physics has always been an empirical science; just because we don't know how to test our latest fanciful ideas today does not mean we never will.
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"You move from the fanciful exit number and you start looking at the companies you've invested in and start caring for their mission," Dr. Wright said.
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Ancient-world readers of Homer must have known how much of the Odyssey was fanciful and how much of it was true, and in what sense.
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For her tribute program, Ms. Hallenberg has donned fanciful masculine 18th-century theatrical garb, including a golden helmet crowned by an explosion of long blue feathers.
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But of course mere plot summary hardly does justice to Fitzgerald's gift for milking a fanciful gag, charmingly, unto a length of 5,000 words or so.
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Party insiders dismissed this as fanciful and out of touch, but Mr. Sanders aggressively challenged Hillary Clinton for the nomination while picking up 13 million votes.
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It would be in the fanciful style of Antoni Gaudí's Park Güell, in Barcelona, but each structure would represent a mystical figure from the tarot deck.
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John Burningham, who wrote and illustrated scores of books that took generations of young children on fanciful journeys full of surprise and heart, died on Jan.
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I don't pay much attention to the posters and graphics, because they give me more strident and fanciful information than what I take from the photographs.
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That is how Jakić's and Denic's fanciful art collapses foreground and background, thereby inviting the viewer to look into something as opposed to looking at something.
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While focusing on his own career trajectory, he failed to notice that his wife's dreams had evolved beyond fanciful notions of being a starving, fresh-faced artist.
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And while the images he amassed were not necessarily invented — many of the photographs used are the real archival thing — the contexts he gave them were fanciful.
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This comic opens with a fanciful conceit: the sole survivor of a spaceship explosion has become trapped, like an insect in amber, within physical globules of memory.
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China is still exporting its surplus but that surplus appears to be smaller to the extent that talk of a global supply deficit no longer appears fanciful.
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Although all this sounds pretty fanciful, Westropp says the target audience is "Gen Z" and Young Millennials who want to translate their interests into the gig economy.
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And despite Trump's fanciful claims that Mexico will ultimately pay for his proposed border wall with Mexico, he's now asking Congress—and ultimately taxpayers—to fund it.
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Clear away the flattering and fanciful interpretations, and you're left with this: Trump's amateurish quotation marks underscore his fraught relation to the written language of public life.
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I think the ideology Bernie is selling is fanciful, but underlying it is a moral critique of modern capitalism that has merit and deserves to be heard.
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Though it may seem fanciful, there is a powerful tool that is tailor made for simultaneously combating North Korean nukes, Russian aggression, Chinese influence, and Iranian maleficence.
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"While I appreciate Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm, I am getting weary of plans and proposals that are at best fanciful and worse delusional," Graham said in a statement.
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In contrast to Kendrick Lamar, who uses Compton's rap history as the foundation for fanciful flights of syllabic dexterity and lyrical nerve, YG treats it as destiny.
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That makes unraveling what happened a bit less zesty, but also allows the storytelling to feel more realistic, dark and erotic than the author's more fanciful works.
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The FDA also rejects names that seem too fanciful or overstate a drug's effectiveness and puts the kibosh on names that might stigmatize a patient (or condition).
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This year, dozens of people in fanciful hats and costumes inched their way along the route, as spectators stopped them at every step to pose for photographs.
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Bernie Sanders's claim that a "political revolution" will force Republicans to accept some of his ideas is also fanciful, as the political scientist Jonathan Bernstein points out.
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Viewers are invited to perform sets of instructions with various objects for 231 seconds at a time, thereby becoming collaborators in activating Wurm's fanciful, open-ended artworks.
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It is just one of the countless times this irresponsibly fanciful mother puts her own unfocused quest for happiness ahead of her son's stability and well-being.
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Kuma's rejoinder might be that his own plan represents the local traditions and materials of the surrounding region, rather than a fanciful object alien to the landscape.
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There's a ton to explore outside the house, including contemporary sculptures, a maze, a fanciful play park and a Heritage Center with artifacts from the Empire Exposition.
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What began as a fanciful Web 1.0–era dream of an elaborate cuckoo clock that outlasts the great pyramids has taken form as an ornate underground edifice.
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Both of those elements are so fanciful, and they're so gracefully incorporated into this grid, that even if your solving experience is challenging, it's full of zing.
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No doubt some adults are right now pooh-poohing the comparisons to Harry Potter, scoffing at children's books with fanciful names like Hufflepuff, Flitwick, Slughorn and Diggory.
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Produced by WP Theater in association with Baltimore Center Stage, and directed by Tamilla Woodard, the show is unusually understated, despite the fanciful tale at its heart.
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And fanciful enough that the last of the courses was bonbons of many colors, wheeled out on a trolley that could have held a royal wedding cake.
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That continues on this sometimes boisterous, sometimes swampy, rarely fanciful album — it's Mr. Lamar's version of the creeping paranoia that has become de rigueur for midcareer Drake.
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Lisa, he said, was largely tolerant of his views, but drew the line at gambling their children's futures on the fanciful notion of some imminent technological intervention.
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"Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion," McConnell said.
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Yet what we're hearing from the populists is very nearly the opposite -- fanciful promises to protect Americans from disruptive economic change and "bring back" low-skill production jobs.
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Her Chequers plan proposed instead that the entire United Kingdom stay in alignment with the single market for goods, with customs controls avoided by fanciful high-tech wheezes.
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With other luxury houses still fawning over the streetwear and athleisure trend, it feels good to come back to a more fanciful and playful approach to dressing up.
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It might seem fanciful to think of shipments on a behemoth like Munich Maersk being flexible in the way that vans tootling round suburbs with packages can be.
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Automakers and collectors across the globe bring their most fanciful cars to the Monterey Peninsula, where roughly 50,000 classic and exotic car fans gather for the annual event.
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Emboldened by their unlikely victory, the Islamist factions have vowed to take all of Aleppo from President Bashar al-Assad, but their rhetoric has bordered on the fanciful.
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In his earlier, more fanciful works (who can forget Lemoin's Prufrock sur la Plage, where he played a timid insurance adjuster among mermaids?), artifice worked in his favor.
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And Faraday's bizarre CES event this year — its first big, splashy press conference — only yielded a fanciful supercar concept that doesn't appear to have any basis in reality.
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But it was also meant to serve as a rebuttal to skeptics who dismissed the Hyperloop as too fanciful, impractical, and expensive to exist in the real world.
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However, as well known as Thiebaud is for his paintings of food and lunch counters, what gets overlooked is his ability to merge the fanciful with the formal.
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These idealistic banking models can seem rather fanciful, but governments in other countries use public banks, exploiting the natural resource of constituent tax deposits for the greater good.
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She also said similar instances have happened to the property's maintenance manager, who Boehme said is "not a fanciful man," but still has experienced strange and unexplained noises.
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As in the United States, populist politicians have emerged, proposing their own versions of Mr. Trump's wall — even though, in today's Europe, those ideas are still more fanciful.
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"The names of 'Joyeux' and 'Patriste' are of a nature, because of their fanciful, even ridiculous, character, to create difficulties and embarrassment for the child," the opinion read.
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Woodstock '99 didn't even try to embody such fanciful notions of rock 'n' roll as a place where women could feel safe to let it all hang out.
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Some of the episode structures are a bit more fanciful, such as a bizarre story-within-a-story where a character hallucinates that there's something haunting the restaurant.
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An extra-dry martini, on the other hand, is essentially three ounces of chilled gin or vodka served in a fanciful glass with a lemon twist or olive.
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Many of their leading lights peddle corporatized "resistance" paraphernalia and promote emotionally-satisfying but fanciful scenarios whereby Trump will be ousted from office imminently for "treason"-related offenses.
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It dares to be as fanciful, histrionic, awkward and downright terrified as young people are in that period when the hormones kick in and emotions seesaw between extremes.
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A year ago, Mr. Bolsonaro's bid was widely regarded by political veterans in Brasília as fanciful in a nation renowned for the cordiality and warmth of its people.
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I surely have more in common with the peasants whose village we are about to sack than I do with this highborn Lord resplendent in his fanciful armor.
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He had given himself hope of beating 18-times Grand Slam champion Nadal — no fanciful idea when set against his upset of Roger Federer in Miami last year.
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Even good old-fashioned sleepovers have been given a luxe makeover by companies charging four figures for fanciful tent setups complete with breakfast trays, accent pillows, and lanterns.
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In her first museum retrospective, the artist and fashion muse Rachel Feinstein presents fanciful works with a core of steel — a balance of the whimsical and the grotesque.
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It's hardly fanciful to imagine the president commanding his new acting DNI to provide tailored intelligence that he can include in a provocative tweet, and readily getting it.
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"The idea that you can reverse the job centralization process by suggesting adding two new cities ... then (saying) it will happen, is somewhat fanciful, I think," says Searle.
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Less fanciful, but so far equally fruitless, have been schemes to source lots of geothermal power, or capture the high-velocity winds of the stratosphere with large kites.
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As recently as 15 years ago, the idea of getting all of our news from a small, light device that fits inside our pockets would have seemed fanciful.
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" The company said the new name was meant to evoke the idea of a "delicious world" − with "monde" Latin for world, and "delez" a "fanciful expression of delicious.
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But, after sunset, their sculptural counterparts illuminate the zoo's grounds, as do fanciful renditions of lions, giraffes, zebras, rhinos, elephants, ring-tailed lemurs, cranes, dolphins, and sea turtles.
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"Unless they're planning to throw one hell of an overnight party 14 years from now, the notion that this deal allows them to do nothing is fanciful," Houser quipped.
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If that concern seems fanciful, think back to the summer of 2016, when British mutual property funds had to suspend redemptions in the wake of the EU referendum vote.
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It is not too fanciful to imagine a time in the future when the start of the trading day in Shanghai is an important moment for global capital markets.
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But as people start chasing foods with more fanciful health promises, it's time that the FDA takes a closer look before we waste our dollars and endanger our health.
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The architect is famous for building his fanciful structures after deadline and over budget (and then shouldering cities with excessive repairs and maintenance costs when they don't hold up).
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"To think that we are going to swap keeping inflation under control, a system of credibility in the long term, for short (term) growth, is fanciful," Campos Neto said.
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While I think that Martin's Snow resurrection will involve warging, the show resisted theorists' more fanciful ideas, which involved all kinds of crazy crap, like White Walkers and Bran.
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If you meet someone who doesn't find strange old stories about fanciful doings in forgotten-pasts at least sort of interesting then they're probably not worth meeting ever again.
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I hardly ever played a "white-knuckle" FPS, but instead played alone and occasionally with friends in a gorgeous and violent sandbox full of cartoonish characters and fanciful weapons.
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This month, when Mr. Trump suggested he would reduce the national debt by negotiating with creditors to accept something less than full payment, economists dismissed the idea as fanciful.
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That same attitude now leads Giuliani to concoct fanciful -- and utterly erroneous -- legal theories to "explain" why the Mueller probe is a failure and why presidents can't be subpoenaed.
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Yes, there were exceptions, but even a wildly fanciful production like, say, The Wizard of Oz was still framed by the experience of life on a farm in Kansas.
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It could also -- and this is the most wily and fanciful possible reason of all -- be that Trump sees value in the blanket of critique he's faced from officials.
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Knox is also aware of, but is not condoning, a covert, albeit fanciful, operation begun by his friends to have him chosen for the United States Ryder Cup team.
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Program A includes collaborations with Penn & Teller, the rock-pop group OK Go and the fanciful Israeli artist Inbal Pinto as well as a premiere by Javier De Frutos.
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Apple's app, called Swift Playgrounds, introduces basic computer programming concepts, like sequencing logic, by asking students to use word commands to move cartoon avatars through a fanciful, animated world.
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Yet perhaps precisely because so much of his presidency consists of these fanciful rhetorical constructs, he doesn't seem to understand that he has policymaking authority beyond just saying stuff.
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Stephen Dirkes, a self-taught perfumer who runs the fanciful Euphorium Brooklyn from his workshop in Greenpoint says that animalic scents are, in a twisted way, about confronting mortality.
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The feature film currently claiming the top spot on the awards prediction site Gold Derby is one of the most fanciful confections Hollywood has come up with in years.
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She's happy to paper over Anahata's problems by offering some high-minded, fanciful justification for terrible behavior today — because to get ahead in tech is to join the cult.
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After withdrawing from the 2015 agreement that restrained Iran's nuclear program in fanciful pursuit of a "better deal," President Trump embarked on a campaign of "maximum pressure" against Tehran.
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A year ago, most power brokers in Brazil regarded Mr. Bolsonaro's presidential bid as fanciful, deeming him too incendiary to take the helm of the world's fourth largest democracy.
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But among the colorful, trendy and, at times, fanciful offerings stood several farmers who had witnessed the attack, and who knew well the magnitude of the market's reopening here.
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That seemed a fanciful notion while Russia was painting all of the Syrian opposition with the same brush and bombing the moderate Syrian opposition more than the Islamic State.
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A fanciful bedtime story that Twain told his daughters will be finished and released as an illustrated book more than a century after he jotted down parts of it.
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However fanciful, it all seemed pretty standard to Orchard, who after a rehearsal Monday asked Greco whether a triumphant nod would suffice as a response to defeating the jet.
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Around the city, companies are wooing employees with workplace perks that range from the practical, like health care plans or paid vacations, to the fanciful: In-house barista, anyone?
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Officials and national security experts have long argued that such a proposal is fanciful, saying Russia's primary goal is to maintain influence in the region by propping up Assad.
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The United States had wanted China's trade surplus with America to shrink by $200 billion in two years, a figure seen as fanciful by most economists and trade experts.
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The jaguar's markings are a fanciful mix of wavy lines and amoeba-like shapes, and the animal stares with pale, yellow-green eyes, their pupils fine as apple seeds.
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Adobe's Festival of the Impossible art exhibit in San Francisco showed, in fanciful and provocative form, how digital technologies are leaping off the screen and blending with human experience.
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It is a book replete with interesting details, including Buffam's commentary on The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, whose writing is woven into this book in imaginative and fanciful ways.
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The fanciful goal is to "make a great deal for our country", in Mr Trump's words, in which old enmities will be buried and Russia helps see off Islamic State.
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Her sculptures remain fairy-tale fanciful, but their contexts have become higher profile: this summer, the artist unveiled a new work on the grounds of Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, England.
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This is part of a greater plan by Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, who has reshaped the company's myriad and often fanciful interests in futuristic technology with a more fiscal focus.
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And by helping the Kremlin legitimise the election, the danger is that she may strengthen Mr Putin's grip on power—and make her version of Russia's future ever more fanciful.
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Trump, meanwhile, ran up the score in deeply red counties especially in the industrial Midwest where his message of restoring past manufacturing greatness, however fanciful, connected on a deep level.
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Officials and national security experts have argued that such a proposal is fanciful, saying Russia's primary goal is to maintain influence in the region by propping up the Assad regime.
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Pretty much everyone who's anyone in the fashion and entertainment industry attends, dressed by the top designers in the game in some fanciful interpretation of the night's (often elaborate) theme.
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They're just telling us very, very little about what this pilot program is and letting us filling the blanks with details from local officials and, sometimes, our own fanciful ideas.
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Behold all the fanciful rumors (Whitewater, Vince Foster's "murder," drug-running) during Bill Clinton's presidency, but a lack of rumors against his rivals, George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole.
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His wife of 65 years, Eva (played in fanciful flashbacks by the lovely Claire Bloom), has left him with a broken heart and a mysterious inscription on her powder compact.
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" A source with ties to the Enquirer offered a different rationale for the reporting effort: "It's fanciful to suggest that the Enquirer pursued this because Bezos is a perceived enemy.
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In 1997 and 2100, he led a crew of six nonstop around the world on giant trimarans to beat the once-fanciful 22010-day goal by more than two weeks.
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"The Little Prince" is really a movie within a movie; the author's delicate, fanciful story is folded into a harsh, modernist commentary on depersonalization and conformity in the contemporary workplace.
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Officially named the Land-Side Impermeable Wall, but better known simply as the ice wall, the project sounds like a fanciful idea from science fiction or a James Bond film.
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"Pride and Prejudice" alone has countless progeny — from the classic 1995 BBC adaptation, to more fanciful variations like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Twilight" (Pride and Prejudice and Vampires).
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That may seem fanciful, but it's a premise with an overabundance of promise and not something that should be dismissed out of hand — despite flagging sales and slow consumer adoption.
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Several top Republican operatives working on the midterm elections told me Trump's fanciful "red wave" predictions could depress Republican turnout and, ironically, serve to make any blue wave even bigger.
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When it ships early next year, it may stand in stark contrast to games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity, which brought the fanciful world of RPGS to the real world.
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"The Westmont Apartment Building is an excellent example of Tudor Revival style architecture interpreted in an exuberant, somewhat fanciful manner by Cleveland architect Lyman R. Walker," according to the application.
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Sanders will have arguments to persuade superdelegates this year as well, but to imagine that he will convince hundreds of them to renounce their prior support of Clinton is fanciful.
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She posted her solo music under several fanciful stage names, including Ingrid Superstar, which she reluctantly dropped after learning that a Warhol superstar had already claimed it in the 1960s.
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"Two years of exhaustive investigation, and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion," Mr. McConnell said dismissively.
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Just a few months ago, the idea of a so-called "people's vote," or second referendum, on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union was regarded by most commentators as fanciful.
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When Portugal decriminalized, UN member states were just years removed from a 1998 special session of the General Assembly that convened under the fanciful pretext of eliminating drug use worldwide.
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The tonal range of the genre extends yet further, into worlds that feel not only intricate, but grounded — imaginary universes that are every bit as fanciful, but feel less so.
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A relationship is evident, Deirdre Featherstone maintained, in the fanciful drop earrings and necklaces she designs and sells at Bergdorf Goodman, pieces carved from pale coral, tourmaline and lavender jade.
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Some real, some fanciful, the schemes and stories contained in the newly divulged files help explain the backdrop against which the Kennedy killing stirred suspicions that persist to this day.
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Some of the brightest stars of street art — former skateboarders, surfers, break dancers and survivors of midnight raids on subway cars — have created fanciful murals to celebrate Super Bowl LIV.
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The musical "Ride the Cyclone," which comes to New York courtesy of MCC Theater after an acclaimed, extended run in Chicago, has a premise as fanciful as it is freaky.
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One name that has made some fanciful lists of successors is Preet Bharara, the former senior federal prosecutor in New York City, who was fired by Mr. Trump last year.
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Lowe appears to spend nearly all his profits on fanciful-seeming projects that, in aggregate, mount a serious case that the facsimile can play a central role in art conservation.
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That promise, however, proved fanciful, and his urgency to deliver led him to him cast human rights and due process as hindrances rather than as safeguards against an exploitative system.
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A 4-1 loss to Japan, a former colonial power and common arch- rival for both North and South Korea, on Wednesday officially brought that fanciful dream to an end.
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The Gower Street Waterstones, with its light-drenched reading nooks and cafe, is a castle of books, housed in a fanciful red-brick building of the Franco-Flemish Gothic style.
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Nancy Willard, a prolific author whose 70 books of poems and fiction enchanted children and adults alike with a lyrical blend of fanciful illusion and stark reality, died on Feb.
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That point of view changed radically when Goldman Sachs, an organization not known for its fanciful analysis, declared that mining asteroids will be a growth industry in the 21st century.
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She found her dance work liberating, she said, because unlike characters in theater, dancers did not have to look like "people operating in a real world," no matter how fanciful.
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That is, if you discount the newest and perhaps most fanciful name to emerge as a possible opponent to Mr. de Blasio in this year's mayoral race: Hillary Clinton. Mrs.
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But he also enjoys provocation: The master bedroom features a fanciful full-length Kurt Kauper painting of Cary Grant, nude, complete with tan lines, and standing by a roaring fire.
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Arithmetic suggests this pledge is fanciful: even if the labour-force participation of 25- to 54-year-olds returns to its record high, only 4.3m new workers will appear by 2024.
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Lawyers for Adelson, her brother and their parents dismiss that allegation as "fanciful fiction" and say none of the Adelsons have been charged because they have no connection to the killing.
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Published between 1934 and 1988, the novels are both fanciful and menacing; at times they're a little reminiscent of the fantastical, dreamlike, slightly sinister logic that powers Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
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It's as if he's in a matrix he has to unplug from — and when he does, the film almost seems to be commenting on the fanciful essence of comic-book cinema.
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Yet Britain has long supported the first two; and it seems fanciful to expect workers and unions to accept a dilution of employment rights that business is not even calling for.
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"First thing he did, though, was drop a bomb: McMillon told us he'd spend as much as possible to take on Amazon, something that seemed fanciful at the time, " Cramer said.
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The film is really a movie within a movie, in which the author's delicate, fanciful story is folded into a harsh modernist fable about depersonalization and conformity in the contemporary workplace.
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It ought to be based in history and fact not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an election year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.
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Attendees wore an array of fanciful hats and fascinator at the gathering in Ascot, England, including one depicting a darts board, another with the figure of a dog fixed on top.
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During parts of "Muted," Ms. Germino also sang or spoke fanciful texts by Don Marquis and moved around a central, light-projecting circular tower of aluminum rings (designed by Floriaan Ganzevoort).
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The priority will be for the current season to run it's course, although fitting Champions League, Europa League and domestic cup fixtures looks fanciful — unless the next season began in October.
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The treason of the intellectuals begins, in most cases, not with the fanciful image of them as secret authors or puppeteers but in their abject surrender to power and its lures.
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Although the artists make no fuss about this, they have fashioned their fanciful sculptures from wood found at their Quebec farm and colored by dyes made from local berries and vegetation.
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Yet others considered him a visionary in an unimaginative world: His fanciful work was displayed at major museums like the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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A plausibly fanciful expansion of this year's actual cyber plot would put Hillary Clinton, a figure who can make Nancy Reagan seem positively relaxed, into the always revealing grip of worry.
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A decision by the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) on Tuesday to activate a break clause in Silverstone's contract has revived such talk, however fanciful it may sound to many observers.
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The assortment, which borrows from industrial, utilitarian hardware components, was inspired by a unisex bracelet designed in 1971 by the fanciful jeweler Donald Claflin and recently unearthed from the Tiffany archives.
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It is widely thought to have been inspired by Bharara's long-term investigation of Steven Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors; there is also a fanciful subplot involving sadomasochistic sex.
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Inspired by the fanciful cutouts and sinuously sculpted furniture of Mr. Chaimowicz, a London-based artist, young visitors will use Model Magic clay to create their own pieces of home décor.
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Carrà's buoyant, fanciful reveries provide an exquisite counterpoint to the studied lucidity that Morandi, whose works fill the gallery's largest room, brought to the gravity-bound objects of his tabletop universe.
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If this is hard to grasp in the abstract, look at the captivating quality of sexting, doctored photos, or something as silly and fanciful as Twitter, with its birdies and secret codes.
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"If you had told me this morning that a large mall company would buy another mall company and double down, I would say that would be fanciful," the "Mad Money" host said.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, U.S. scientists drafted fanciful plans to give missiles nuclear engines, on the assumption that they'd be able to fly longer and farther than any weapon yet conceived.
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Both rigorous and playful, academic and fanciful, it allowed the dancers to demonstrate the technical precision and formal perfection they are known for, as well as a newly buoyant musicality and spirit.
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THE only historical record of Queen Chammathewi, the legendary founder of the Thai city of Lamphun, comes from a fanciful 15th-century chronicle written on palm leaves in an ancient liturgical language.
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The entire notion of such a legal-political standoff seems fanciful and completely unlikely, because it would require so many unusual and unprecedented events transpiring in the final weeks of the election.
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I had stumbled into #planner Instagram—#plannerlife, #plannergirl, #planneraddict—and gotten lost, hungrily scrolling through image after image of fanciful calligraphy and perfectly outlined lists and elaborate illustrations of journaling wood nymphs.
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Russia said the deaths in Khan Sheikhoun were caused by a Syrian regime airstrike on a rebel-controlled chemcial weapons factory on the ground, but experts have dismissed the claim as fanciful.
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" —Carl De Torres, then art director "For a long time, WIRED didn't cover much health care or medicine—it was either too pedestrian and uncompelling, or just too far out and fanciful.
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"You've got to be willing to take on the lobbyists, which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying, 'These are the programs I would eliminate,'" Cruz said. 3.
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Very Good Touring says Lloyd's has no proof to back up its weed theory, and is merely looking for "any ostensible excuse no matter how fanciful" to deny payment on the policy.
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An emblem of its Parkdale neighborhood's previous life, Skyline remained unchanged by the area's tense move away from staples like screaming junkies and pawn shops to tiki bars and fanciful French patisseries.
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But its fanciful appearance imagines a necessary solution to densely populated areas with shrinking real estate, proposing a vertical city with an array of civic spaces instead of just a corporate building.
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Patterson shows up with plastic jewelry, small, patterned bows, Mardi Gras beads, fanciful embroidery, appliqués, brooches, faux gold coins, and gold-painted seashells that are procured and arranged through a laborious process.
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WHEN Grigory Rodchenkov, the erstwhile director of Russia's anti-doping lab, confessed that he had helped run a state-directed doping programme during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, his story sounded fanciful.
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While Sandman was always known for a rather specific kind of moody tone, the new books seem to run the gamut, from the ethereal and dreamlike, to the hard-boiled and fanciful.
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If these brands had their Wellie boots (in Ms. Rocha's case) and Crocs (in Mr. Kane's) firmly planted on the ground, however, at Peter Pilotto things took an altogether more fanciful turn.
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"Two years of exhaustive investigation, and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion," he said on the Senate floor.
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When he was forty-seven, his division chief—a fanciful man who once dreamed of being an artist—decided to build a public toilet in the shape of a European clock tower.
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It might have seemed a wild departure to turn from this formidable partita to Schumann's "Papillons," an early, playful suite evocative of a masked ball, full of fanciful dances and quirky bits.
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So focusing reform on the places where the real problem is occurring as opposed to making fanciful proposals that ask us to do what none of us is really able to do.
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"The idea that changing demographics alone are going to carry Democrats through, particularly in a deep South state, is fanciful," says Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who has polled extensively across the South.
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The final week of repertory is devoted to Alexei Ratmansky's "Whipped Cream," a fanciful ballet about a youngster and his love of sweets that features a score and libretto by Richard Strauss.
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To imagine that such weapons have not only been covertly developed but also were then somehow hidden near the embassy is even more fanciful, for a variety of logistical and technical reasons.
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So, scientists don't know what addiction in the brain looks like, yet, and until that mystery is solved we should not be living in fear from something as fanciful as sugar addiction.
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This structure was expanded in the 1940s and again in the 1990s, but it retains its original Tudor Revival features, including slate roofs, timbered-and-stucco exteriors, arched doorways and fanciful chimneys.
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The terms range from the familiar ("We will take care of each other when one of us is sick") to the fanciful ("If we're both sick, it's all up to the dog").
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It seems fanciful to imagine huge demonstrations in the streets in the way that, say, the 2017 Muslim ban galvanized thousands of Americans to storm the country's airports shortly after Trump's inauguration.
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But as viewers settle into "Jojo Rabbit's" fanciful paste-pot pastiche, it's clear that Waititi has more on his mind than just taking the mickey out of a bunch of dumb Nazis.
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After Tuesday night, however, the idea of the Sanders people rallying around Warren if, after the first few primaries and caucuses, she looks like the most viable liberal candidate, now seems fanciful.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Trump administration thought the historically progressive Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had gone too far, even though the judge said his examples were not "a parade of fanciful" hypotheticals.
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So it was not exactly stunning when he held a Monday-night rally in El Paso and spun a fanciful overestimate of his attendance that the city's fire department later shot down.
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A fanciful, hand-sewn purse that tucked under the arm like a French loaf and came in hundreds of variations, it was fashion's first real "It" bag — and named for a carb.
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Using a multispectral camera, they also uncovered its fanciful interior and exterior decoration rich in color, such as deep Egyptian Blue for the ceiling and a red and blue meander, or decorative border.
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Photographer Marc Yankus imagines the Big Apple devoid of these distractions in *The Secret Lives of Buildings, *a fanciful look at what the city might be like without all those cars and stuff.
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Among them is an artist's fanciful rendering of Donald Trump about to kiss former rival Ted Cruz, a poke at a Republican Party platform that would limit gay rights, the sign's sponsor said.
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Mr Flynn was at the meeting, too, and one apparent aim was to connect him with Russian security personnel, expediting Mr Trump's fanciful plan to co-ordinate the two countries' efforts in Syria.
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NaCoWriMo is designed to explore the point where logic goes haywire, so a lot of these links will be fanciful — Hwang, for example, plans to expose mysterious ties between American politics and Wrestlemania.
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Called simply "Bulb" (his product names would become more fanciful), it won praise from the designer Charles Eames and in 22007 became part of the Museum of Modern Art's collection in New York.
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The memes are funny, like those about rescuing aliens from Area 51, but a lot less fanciful, as they're talking about an actual oppressive regime, not the possibility of E.T.s in the desert.
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Working with makeup artist Michael Anthony, who is king of fanciful, artsy, "damn-can-you-believe-he-did-that?" looks, we dreamt up a quartet of beauty ideas that will blow your mind.
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The AI's cookie-cutter armies also breed really similar-feeling battles, which is especially notable in this game compared to the Warhammer games because the unit types are so much less fanciful here.
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Although a new prime minister would be listened to politely, it is fanciful to expect the EU to abandon the Irish—especially for a mistrusted hardliner such as Boris Johnson, the early favourite.
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Of course, there were plenty of historical automotive activities throughout the week: sister shows at the Quail, the Concorso Italiano, and the more pedestrian Concours d'Lemons catered to cars of less fanciful pedigree.
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But every time I emerged from my daze and took a hard look at the world around me, the prospect that a new dark age was looming on the horizon seemed less fanciful.
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In fairness, they're taking cues from Trump himself, who — when he talks about the wall at all anymore — treats it with no more detail or seriousness than he does any other fanciful idea.
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Siriano, a designer who's beloved as much for his inclusive approach to fashion as he is for his fanciful designs, has gained a reputation for embracing women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds.
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The coalition between left and right evaporates, the idea's economic inevitability looks fanciful, and the promise that the plan could end poverty forever looks more dependent on technical details than you might think.
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The possibility of Mr. Trump in the Oval Office — an outcome that once seemed fanciful — became less remote on Tuesday night when his main challenger, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, quit the race.
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Of his eight excellent dancers, Lindsey Jones has the sharpest knack for his style of deadpan, which requires keeping a straight face as fanciful, ridiculous moves swoop in from out of left field.
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In fact, it so absurdly fanciful that it's hard to escape the conclusion that really, this is a plan to *avoid* having passing Medicare for All, not one to actually get us there.
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Ms. Ko, a composer in residence with Young Concert Artists, wrote in a program note that her "Games of Belief" was inspired by Schumann's fanciful piano works, especially his "Scenes From Childhood" suite.
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The fanciful dresses found on figure in Praise Me and Ain't Nothing Raggedy About This are meant to evoke the ways in which the women saw themselves despite the contradictions of their situations.
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The video for the track, premiering today on THUMP, pairs gossamer visuals—a sun-dappled summer daydream and an inescapable tinge of PInk Floyd surrealism—with equally fanciful vocals and gentle bass grooves.
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The world of Rowling's series is so generously furnished by her redoubtable imagination; her sense of how magic could work is so practical and everyday in its details, so fanciful in its delights.
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Pearson stands for a moment, utterly still, the grasses tickling his worn boots as he takes in the juxtapositions: the natural and the gnarled wrapping itself gloriously around the fanciful and the strange.
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Dressing up sitters in fanciful costume goes at least as far back as Rembrandt; Church, like many of his contemporaries, went further, depicting exotic subjects, as he saw them, in their native context.
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The controversial work is a video documentation of a 1994 performance in which two pigs, one imprinted with nonsensical English words and one stamped with fanciful Chinese characters, copulate before a live audience.
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It sounds fanciful, but it's not a year-zero leap into the unknown: It's taking what we know works (universal social services and worker-owned cooperatives) and building a social system around them.
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Adapted by a team led by Yoav Gal and Ronit Muszkatblit, the show uses fanciful paper cutouts to create the universe of Hanna and her friends Zuzi the dog and Edna the cow.
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This is all admittedly fanciful, because to be open about racial quotas would require private schools to sacrifice federal funds, and to emphasize legacy advantages would cost them in the U.S. News rankings.
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Today, our constructors are flipping the switch, and breaking down long-established examples of the genre into more fanciful ingredients that are all quite logical once solved, but oddball to say the least.
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Here is Mr. Gerstein in 2013 playing Schumann's "Carnaval," one of my favorite of the composer's inventive piano suites (and, judging from this fanciful and brilliant performance, one of Mr. Gerstein's as well).
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The premise was more fanciful than the current reality, but the show presciently dramatized the disinformation campaigns we're now witnessing across social media, except the social media companies are also the unwitting tools.
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Gorgeous and goofy, fanciful and unrepentantly old-fashioned, this Victorian adventure (it's set in 1862) delights much more when its head is in the clouds than when its feet are on the ground.
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His fanciful mural, intended to brighten the walls of the chow hall, teems with mansard roofs, neon signs, Victorian houses and other details inspired by the Japanese-born painter he admires, Hiro Yamagata.
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But Daniel A. Smith, the chairman of the political science department at the University of Florida who studies the state's electorate, said it was "fanciful" to expect Florida's voter rolls to swell quickly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — It takes a great deal of awareness to identify the moment when a fanciful notion becomes a blatant untruth, and from there, perhaps a destructive ideology.
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There are also more fanciful works, like a tree of life, a "green city" work that shows skyscrapers facing off against a verdant side of Bengaluru, a giant reclining Buddha face, and others.
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He said the idea was a "noble concept," but then declared it all but dead in the water, a fanciful proposal somewhere on the spectrum between a hassle-free subway ride and world peace.
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The effect is to take the sheen off all this merchandise, with an expedient handmade aesthetic in which stickers and rubber bands effect rough-and-ready renamings, ranging from the caustic to the fanciful.
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But both Fortescue and Bluescope reported earnings on Monday that would have seemed fanciful 2160 months ago, underscoring that companies can adapt to survive extended periods of low prices for the commodities they produce.
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It includes both sober promises, like fixing potholes, and fanciful ideas, such as creating a "world-leading" railway network (taken at its word, this would require sending Japanese style bullet-trains across the country).
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In 1883 (the same year as Parker's Banking) McLoughlin Brothers published Bulls and Bears: The Great Wall Street Game, a fanciful game of betting on commodity gains and losses as determined by a spinner.
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The solutions on offer can seem fanciful: Facebook, for example, aims to deliver Internet access to the world's far-flung places via drone-mounted lasers, and Google wants to do so with giant balloons.
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For many countries that do not provide access to birth control or abortion rights, it is fanciful to tell women not to get pregnant for up to two years as some countries have recommended.
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President Joko Widodo entered office in 2014 promising to return the country to 7% growth; today that looks somewhere between fanciful and impossible, despite ambitious plans to ramp up spending on much-needed infrastructure.
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Experts also described Mr. Trump's proposal as fanciful, saying there was no reason to think America's creditors would accept anything less than 100 cents on the dollar, regardless of Mr. Trump's deal-making prowess.
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Rather than the screens, sensors, microchips and Big Data typically employed by Smart City designers, Daan Roosegaarde works with a more fanciful tool kit: smog-eating machines, light-emitting plankton and solar-sensitive paint.
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The pairing of classical music with fanciful and imaginative animated sequences (some of which, like the "Night on Bald Mountain," may have given you nightmares as a child) in "Fantasia" is always worth revisiting.
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She does so to lighter effect in three 260 examples from her series Naturalezas Vivas (Living Nature), all featuring shells, flowers and other natural objects floating atop one another, like miniature, fanciful totem poles.
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As with all things that are fanciful, beautiful and romantic in this world, the unrelenting forces of capitalism are now trying to wring every last ounce of material gain from the Foxes' magnificent season.
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A MINUS Yoni & Geti: Testarossa (Joyful Noise)The fruit of a European tour by David Cohn d/b/a Serengeti and his beatmaker pal Yoni Wolf is goofy and fanciful in Geti's signature manner.
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Later in his life — he died in 6333 — he was pushing back against his corporeal self, building fanciful and vivid costumes that he would wear in public, transitioning from making art to becoming it.
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Later in his life — he died in 2010 — he was pushing back against his corporeal self, building fanciful and vivid costumes that he would wear in public, transitioning from making art to becoming it.
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Later in his life — he died in 193 — he was pushing back against his corporeal self, building fanciful and vivid costumes that he would wear in public, transitioning from making art to becoming it.
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For a time, it looked as if Mr. Herheim would make his Met debut in 2019-20, with a reprise of a fanciful "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" that wowed the Salzburg Festival in 2013.
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While there are fewer fanciful concept cars to be seen, New York is expected to be a hotbed for new production models ranging from family sedans and compact SUVs to luxury cars and supercars.
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For most of the century, superhero stories had featured a costumed crusader or team of crusaders battling a villain in similarly fanciful garb, some bam-pow theatrics, and the triumph of good over evil.
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Described as "romantic and fanciful with a bohemian undercurrent," Ella Moon has a large selection of dresses that are perfect for any season, featuring florals prints, embroidery designs, and details like ruffles and tassels.
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In a farther, fanciful future, for example, the moon could be mined for platinum, a valuable metal, or helium-5003, to be used as fuel for fusion energy reactors that do not yet exist.
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In "Biergarten at Night" (22014), dozens of characters—some realist, including a self-portrait; others fanciful, such as an androgynous figure passionately kissing a death's-head—hoist brews in velvety shadow and glimmering light.
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Such was the case at the Giambattista Valli couture show, where the brand partnered with the Italian jewelry house Buccellati to show jewelry so glamorous and opulent that they only enriched Valli's fanciful designs.
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But both Fortescue and Bluescope reported earnings on Monday that would have seemed fanciful 2002 months ago, underscoring that companies can adapt to survive extended periods of low prices for the commodities they produce.
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Jess Milton, the show's producer for the last 13 years, said that while Mr. McLean regarded his essays as journalism and did extensive reporting before writing them, he was also comfortable with fanciful fiction.
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A lawyer by trade and an experienced practitioner of the martial arts, Tang Hao wrote numerous books and articles that dismissed much of the prevailing history surrounding the Chinese martial arts as fanciful folklore.
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In "reality denial" troubling evidence is rationalised away: house-price bulls might conjure up fanciful theories for why prices should behave unusually, and supporters of a disgraced politician might invent conspiracies or blame fake news.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It may be a fanciful notion but Norwegian professional Caroline Martens is being driven this year by a powerful desire to play at the Olympics alongside her compatriot and close friend Suzann Pettersen.
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Take Britain, their steel industry is in a lot of pain right now, and the idea that Prime Minister Theresa May can do nothing or will do nothing in response to this is just fanciful.
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The pain with which the boy is grappling grounds these more fanciful elements, so much so that it's something of a shock when Conor's dad (Toby Kebbell) appears and the kid actually cracks a smile.
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We were in the same class in journalism school, but it was only after we graduated — when we both realized we were pursuing fledging, if not fanciful, freelance reporting careers — that we discovered our bond.
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Impatient to get to "the good part" — More's fanciful description of his mythical island republic — they understandably skip over its garrulous prelude, a dialogue in an Antwerp garden with the sailor who reputedly discovered Utopia.
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With signs growth in the United States is slowing, China's equity market sliding, and tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran promising a continuation of volume war among OPEC members, that view no longer seems fanciful.
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"If all conventional roads lead to a hard no-deal Brexit, the notion of Parliament exerting control and forcing another referendum on us would begin to look not wholly fanciful," Peston wrote in the Spectator.
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The paper, published in the University of Leicester's Journal of Physics Special Topics, was a fanciful use of the so-called SIR model, which is used in epidemiology to simulate how diseases spread over time.
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Google VR lead Clay Bavor describes Daydream as a "fanciful" platform, and the View is supposed to embody one manifestation of that: a super-soft device based on the world of clothing, not consumer electronics.
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There are two basic reasons why it is fanciful to think that a Puerto Rican debt restructuring might be achieved in a voluntary manner as the island's governor and its Oversight Board seem to believe.
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It was a slogan that people understood and connected with — both supporters and opponents — on an emotional level, even as they almost certainly understood that the specific elements of the program were a little fanciful.
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Since the ignominious critical and commercial failure of his 2010 comedy, "Cop Out," Kevin Smith has been allowing his filmmaking inspiration to take him in directions that are fanciful even by his own gonzo standards.
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Andrew M. Cuomo has made about creating jobs in upstate New York, perhaps the most fanciful came in the state's decision to spend $15 million to build a high-tech film studio in Onondaga County.
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Buy it here >>This fanciful debut is about love and family (and a trusty dog named Bad), and the lengths we'll go to in order to understand the people who make us who we are.
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" While that may all sound a little fanciful, writes Stephen Holden, it's grounded by the Tom Hanks, whose "performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce.
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"Indeed, the mere fact that the government was willing to offer Pagliano 'use' immunity here in exchange for his testimony indicates that his fear of prosecution is more than fanciful or speculative," the lawyers wrote.
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Resembling lumpen carnival tents or sinister birthday gifts, the tented houses are bright and menacing all at once — a neon lure to a fanciful haunted house, pumped full of poison and poised to be unwrapped.
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In this fictionalization of the fanciful boy's-life handbooks written by Conn and Hal Iggulden, the central conflict involves a family whose three young boys are recovering from the death of their gadget-inventing father.
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Yet on the plane to Paris recently, I saw what seemed like a doable recipe for biscuits roses, and that afternoon I started on it, excited to try my hand at something new and fanciful.
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Francis Preaching to the Birds" to van Gogh's crows over a wheat field, and from natural history to fanciful, symbolic, and abstract renderings — for instance, Louise Nevelson's "bird forms" or Brancusi's aerodynamic "Bird in Space.
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The first thing she advises is to be wary of the movement for economic justice, which she depicts as a fanciful cause driven by the "well educated and relatively privileged" kids of Occupy Wall Street.
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The hotel is still a quick, if gradually sloping, walk to the most Instagram-ready sights — especially the late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's fanciful Valparaíso home, La Sebastiana, rising like a ship's prow from Bellavista.
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She knows it's a somewhat fanciful idea, but it's a measure of her own cleareyed approach that she appeals to psychiatric practitioners' self-interest by invoking that most valuable and (these days) elusive currency: trust.
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That means 20 Republicans would have to turn on Trump, an idea that seems fanciful, since no Republicans have suggested the abuse of power that led to his impeachment should cost him the White House.
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Other, more fanciful lines of inquiry—did he have recurring dreams, how would he describe his relationship with his mother, what kind of future did he wish for his children—elicited game but uncomprehending replies.
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This is a book of fanciful notions intended to make us both pity the son of a billionaire president but also see in his tale the origin story of the superhero who will save us.
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Terri Pous of BuzzFeed was so mortified by our prose that she produced a 20-question quiz last summer asking readers whether an excerpt actually came from our pages or from her own fanciful mind.
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The amazing apogee of Lee's art was probably the reams of fanciful balderdash he wrote as a complement to Ditko's cosmic acid-scapes in their classic collaboration on the original Dr. Strange comics in the 1960s.
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With its fanciful mood lighting and tap-dance rhythms, the films sometimes seem more like musicals than action movies, the various henchmen and assassins that make up the cast more like dancers than dealers of death.
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Another opening caption declares that "this is his story", an assertion which is only slightly less fanciful than saying that Hammer Horror's "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) is a docudrama about an Egyptian pharaoh.
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On Tuesday, Fox Searchlight debuted a brand-new clip from Wes Anderson's upcoming stop-motion film Isle of Dogs—and only Anderson could make a dogfight over a moldy rice cake look this twee and fanciful.
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Attorneys for the ex-wife of Florida law professor Dan Markel tell PEOPLE it's "fanciful fiction" to suggest that she or her family members have any connection to the murder of the popular teacher in 2014.
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Vegetarian crown roast Sure, this is really just maple roasted squash and stuffing (both of which are delicious, BTW) with a few fanciful decorations, but as a showstopper it has earned its spot on this list.
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Early in her campaign last year for the Democratic presidential nomination, where she cast herself as an experienced pragmatist against fanciful socialist Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton dismissed the Vermont senator's proposal for single-payer health care.
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In a cast dominated by men, the soprano Devon Guthrie, as Mary, stood out for her opulent but weightless tone and the grace with which she negotiated the fanciful embellishments Mr. Spears writes into her part.
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Awkwardly if productively situated at the crossroads of fact and fiction, the movie turns on several characters, real and fanciful, including Sarchiapone, the young water buffalo who serves as both its doleful narrator and complex pivot.
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Her bold, undulating lines, however, bring Andersen's narrative to life, covering pages with waving and wriggling patterns; fanciful plants suggestive of wondrous aquatic wildlife; motifs resembling tentacles and waves; and an abundance of enigmatic, watchful eyes.
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An adjacent room is devoted to fanciful collaborations, including an oval-shape bag dreamed up by Rei Kawakubo, a twisted box-clutch from Frank Gehry and a monogrammed skateboard trunk stamped with the red Supreme logo.
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There on a recent night the chef "paired" (to use fine-dining parlance) room temperature Joven with fanciful dishes like Santa Barbara sea urchin in yuzu Jell-O and grilled wild Spanish octopus with fennel pollen.
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Daniela Ramirez, meanwhile, takes a more whimsical approach to anthropomorphism, with her fanciful scenes: a bird-headed lady chats with another bare-breasted woman with a nest for a neck and a gramophone for a head.
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Today, we may have woken up from that particular illusion, but many prominent Democrats and Republicans in Washington still continue to cling to the fanciful notion that China will pressure Pyongyang to help bring about denuclearization.
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They were, rather, more about the opposite of having options, about eking out the best life possible as the fanciful imaginings of childhood end and the compromises of life as an actual adult female set in.
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The fanciful story is shot in a gritty, pseudo-documentary style, but with breaks for incongruous music-video production numbers that are all backing tracks and choreography (which disguises any vocal limitations of the main players).
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In Manhattan, where I live, the idea of a hearth may be fanciful, but the warmth of the oven or stove, with a bubbling pot of beans or a simmering stew, serves the crucial figurative function.
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Halley and the other parents and grandparents trying to raise children in the motels are part of that history, chasing dreams that seem at once fanciful and mundane: celebrity, wealth, a steady job, a stable home.
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At Brock Collection, the designers Kristopher and Laura Vassar Brock underscored their young brand's ultrafeminine DNA with a fanciful lineup of dresses and skirts, some ruffled, some with peplum waists, others styled with figure-flattering belts.
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" When I question a particularly fanciful cause of death, she says, "One of the most factually accurate events to happen in the book is a thing that happened in Boston called the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
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The fanciful job Mr. Tolins invented for Alex in "Buyer & Cellar" is Ms. Streisand's private shopkeeper, tasked with minding the stores, dusting the displays of antiques and theatrical costumes and tending to the whirring frozen-yogurt machine.
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Those last semesters ticked by and each day came with a new barrage of regrets: the fanciful ones (Why hadn't I studied Greek?) and also the grimly practical (What was I thinking, not learning how to code?).
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Proponents of MMT have been called fanciful for the notion that the U.S. Congress, which typically struggles to pass an annual budget, could with smart budgeting and regulation take over the Federal Reserve's job of controlling inflation.
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In this era, fashion magazines are not bubbles separated from politics and society like back in the 1950s during the fanciful days of Dior and Balenciaga; they have become a central facet to mainstream culture and politics.
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Tomi Ungerer's " Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear " (1999) affectingly tells the story of the friendship between two boys, one German and one Jewish, through the fanciful adventures of a stuffed bear that passes between them.
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But it is the landscape of fantasy and play — where fanciful castles rise to the tree canopy, and hidden kaleidoscopes and fun-house mirrors lurk in the boxwood — that seems most likely to bring the community together.
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Israel's political right has insisted that there are one-state solutions that could address Palestinian grievances, but the plans they have presented so far seem fanciful, and the Israeli government has shown no inclination to try them.
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Money managers, chief executives and business analysts maintain that the approach offers several important and overlooked insights, and far from finding it fanciful or deranged, they are using M.M.T. to build economic forecasts and even trading strategies.
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However, the pattern so far fits Mr. Trump all too well: Raise the volume on a fanciful scary story and tie it to an already desired policy shift in a way that appears to justify that shift.
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In Sheffield, for centuries the center of British scissors making, the contemporary cutler and corset maker Grace Horne makes scissors both classic and fanciful, among them a set of murderous blades in tribute to this double role.
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The most fanciful setup might be "A United Nations in Space," in which hapless delegates have abandoned the flooded United Nations headquarters and struggle to choose a new location from a hotel orbiting our increasingly uninhabitable planet.
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One observant and serendipitous walker through the world is the artist Maira Kalman, whose fanciful drawings have graced children's books, covers for The New Yorker and the pages of many other publications, including The New York Times.
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Many economists regard such growth predictions as fanciful; the economy has been mired in an extended period of slow growth and the reasons, including an aging population and a dearth of innovation, are unlikely to change quickly.
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Ricketson said in his closing statements at the trial that the "notion that a spy would provide national security information to a prime minister via a Gmail account is both fanciful and ludicrous," according to the ABC.
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Designed, in part, as a place where the extended Mercer family can gather, the yacht has many fanciful and didactic touches for the Mercer grandchildren, such as frescoes that allude to the discoveries of Darwin and Newton.
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That month also saw the election of Theresa May, who became Britain's second female prime minister, causing a torrent of stories about her fanciful footwear, which she proudly proclaimed was a tactical "icebreaker" in high-level meetings.
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What's next: It's fanciful to say with certainty how it plays out from here (BuzzFeed News has a fun rundown of all of the possibilities), but here are 3 things that are reasonably likely to occur. 1.
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Almost everything FIFA does, from that specific form of gameplay to the fanciful daydream that underpins its "Ultimate Team" mode, is geared around hyperbole and the kind of football that kids dream about being a part of.
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While we've already seen a few fanciful ideas, a new set of concept images has been released by Spark Racing Technologies — the company that will actually be building the second-generation Formula E cars — and they look incredible.
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In her series If I Could—named after the traditional Peruvian song "El Condor Pasa" (as made famous by SImon and Garfunkel)—Zapata required viewers to take off their shoes before they could enter her fanciful, textile world.
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Meanwhile, Norway pays roughly the same amount per capital for access to the European market, and Norway isn't even a member of the EU. So, the idea that the U.K. is saving any money seemed fanciful to Cramer.
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" Speaking of his CIA colleagues, Pompeo said, "They quietly go about their work and try not to get too worked up over the headlines, including the fanciful notion that they spy on their fellow citizens via microwave ovens.
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An old man strides determinedly by with a fanciful cane, a group of women in headscarves pass a brick building, one woman wearing large glasses and pants that seem a bit too long, glances distractedly at the ground.
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Most people who follow travel accounts on Instagram thus crave imagery that is romantic and fanciful—there is already so much ugly and gritty stuff in the real world, so travel should be light, airy, playful, and beautiful.
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Throughout the work, which is as much an installation as a dance, the performers arrange their bodies to form sculptural, fanciful shapes — as in don't be surprised if a leg suddenly seems to grow out of a back.
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Mr. McConnell waved the congressional Democrats off their investigations, arguing that "relitigating a two-and-a-half-year-old election result" and continuing to traffic in "fanciful conspiracy theories" fixated on "delegitimizing the president" would hurt the country.
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Under normal conditions, Black Twitter is a prominent subculture from which many widespread cultural trends emerge; when combined with the inexorable force of online response to a fanciful quasi-medieval political drama, the resulting discussion became a phenomenon.
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" (Shout!) THE WANDERERS An elaboration on Richard Price's fanciful novel of Bronx youth gangs, Philip Kaufman's 1979 movie has been restored and reissued on Blu-ray in both its original release version and a slightly longer "preview cut.
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Green New Deal A large proportion of Democrats might like the environmental principles behind the Green New Deal, but it makes some moonshot promises that seem fanciful, and unlikely to become reality with a Republican President and Senate.
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The label, worth over 10 billion euros ($11 billion) on the stock market, has given its jackets a more fashionable twist, inviting guest designers to dream up more fanciful versions, and moving away from just functional winter clothing.
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Mr. Homoki's rejection of allegory is unusual for "Lohengrin," an opera whose questions of faith, trust and social cohesion have often lent themselves to fanciful interpretations, like Hans Neuenfels's mouse-themed production for the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.
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His costumes were handmade, fanciful and bizarre — he'd wrap himself in wire and electrical tape, paint himself green and smear his makeup so that he looked deranged, but then out of his mouth would come expert cabaret singing.
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He said he didn't think that the math behind Trump's promise to wipe out $19 trillion in U.S. debt worked, but he said Hillary Clinton's promises are also fanciful and campaigns pledges have to be viewed as symbolic.
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With so much money sloshing around, and more and more of the superwealthy pushing into areas beyond their expertise, it is likely we will see more headlines about the failure of some of these fanciful investments and philanthropic experiments.
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Displayed in the hallowed halls of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Banerjee's assemblage sculptures are complemented by videos and works on paper — fanciful depictions of women and mythical beasts, made of stamped images and clouds of iridescent ink.
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DuVernay certainly tried, bringing a bright and fanciful visual palate to the film and casting an enticing array of actors of color, including Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, and the film's young star Storm Reid.
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The B.J.P. has not always had an easy relationship with the R.S.S. With its fanciful ideas of Hindu purity and its sweeping range of prejudices, the organization is dangerously out of step with the realities of India's political landscape.
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Yet it is fanciful to expect the EU to let Britain stay in the single market but reject the principle of one of its four freedoms, not least because some other countries would surely ask for the same deal.
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"The idea that we were going to negotiate this agreement and get a better relationship with the Iranians was fanciful," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two newly discovered dinosaurs unearthed in the western U.S. states of Montana and Utah are illustrating the exotic appearance some of these beasts developed, with fanciful horns and spikes, toward the end of their reign on Earth.
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They were not actually that fanciful two months ago, when it seemed plausible that if the race was pushed to the convention, it would be an evenly matched three-way battle among Cruz, Trump and Rubio that did it.
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The fact that a wealthy person is willing to spend his money on such a fanciful space project as going to Mars is, though, an intriguing departure—and a good measure of just how rich some people have become.
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The eco-focused Green Cities augmentations at least makes you earn a few of its fanciful solutions to clean energy—though in the end it, too, makes sustainability a matter of a few button presses rather than tough choices.
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Not even a particularly fanciful one either, as her design is clearly based on actual riot police gear, even sporting the "POLIS" logo on her chest armor ("Polis" being Swedish for "Police", to reflect Brigitte's in-lore Swedish background).
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"Some of it was described in a way I thought was fanciful and couldn't happen," he said, referring to the hole in the wall through which Dr. Rodchenkov said urine bottles had been passed starting around midnight each night.
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For the record, it's not about Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady, but about a high school senior in Sacramento whose adoption of that fanciful nickname is part of how she chafes against her station in the world.
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For another fanciful staircase, this one running alongside the pursuit-of-knowledge fresco, Ponti made risers out of green and rose marble and treads out of beige, so that one ascends seeing color and descends with a starker view.
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This hope was not as fanciful as it may now seem: In the late 19th century, when Shaw's political and artistic consciousness was being formed, Russian music, drama and literature were at the leading edge of modern Western culture.
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Among the fanciful floats was an award-winning entry from the Chinese American Heritage Foundation that marked the 75th anniversary of the U.S. victory in World War II and honored the sacrifices of women and minorities in the military.
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The Neptunes' work was a fanciful synthesis of old modes (Queen, the Gap Band, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Earth, Wind & Fire) and new technologies, though it is sometimes difficult to tell where one ends and the next begins.
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Another is the avocado gado gado ("mix mix," in Indonesian), featuring soft-boiled quail eggs, flower petals, radishes, and avocado purée—a fanciful spin on a normally heartier salad of boiled vegetables and tofu or tempeh in peanut sauce.
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The items on the list range from endearing ("Pet a giraffe") to alarming ("Get crossfaded" — simultaneously drunk and high — "17 times") and from fanciful ("Tie a message to a balloon and let it go") to practical ("Do summer reading").
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This small exhibition is centered on a 90-minute film in which episodes from the history of spiritualist frauds and hoaxes are re-enacted by people in fanciful costumes while mystic flames, smoke and ectoplasmic phenomena come and go.
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Moscow, desperate not to be marginalized by Beijing, is coercing regional states to join its Eurasian Economic Union, and has also launched a fanciful vision of a "Greater Eurasia" in which all would be subordinated to Russia and China.
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Christiansen, with the Paris-based architects Studio KO, conceived of a fanciful shrine to print media, culminating in a pair of doors ornately carved with reliefs of owls, cactuses and bumblebees (the office is just on the other side).
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The aesthetic echoes the fanciful storybook scenes he painted in books like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose and Arabian Nights: The letter looks like it could've been found one a desk inside one of his illustrated castles.
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The sums are also usefully comparable to the kind of money Trump wants to spend on his endless border security drives and offer a useful counterpoint to the fanciful "build the wall and crime will fall" slogan he has Republicans pushing.
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Hirshberg does note that his work is more aspirational than realistic, drawing on "more advanced propulsion systems and better building materials" than what's currently possible with our technology, which explains some of the more fanciful elements, like the giant glass dome.
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At the exact moment you expect he's going to complain this entire fanciful endeavor is simply too expensive, he buys a candy-colored pastry or takes his wife dancing by that bridge over the Seine that broke Midge's spirit last episode.
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And while we definitely spend time imagining all the alternatives timelines in which we would live fanciful, couture-clad lives, we also enjoy guessing which of these gowns are most likely to end up on our most beloved, stylish celebrities.
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Modest as he is, it no longer seems fanciful to mention Froome in the same breath as Spain's Miguel Indurain, Belgium's Eddy Merckx or French duo Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil — all of whom won the race a record five times.
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"Such executives literally have millions of reasons to peddle the fanciful notion that the company's culture, policy and practices played no role in encouraging thousands of Wells Fargo employees to drive up customer numbers by any means necessary," the senators wrote.
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"More mainstream UK politicians need to drop the fanciful rhetoric and start speaking the plain, unvarnished truth," Phil Hogan, a former Irish government minister and member of Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael party, wrote in Saturday's Irish Independent newspaper.
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Take for example Gauguin's fanciful fetid figuration from 1892, "Manao Tupapau (L'esprit des morts veille)" (Spirit of the Dead Watching), which depicts Teha'amana, his 21919 year-old parentally-approved "wife" perchance exuding signs of having been encountered in flagrante delicto.
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They reveal an instinct for performance, and also divulge a sense of humor that feels closely linked to a sense of irony: While utopian in ambition, Dallegret's more fanciful designs show the limits and impediments of our social and technological capabilities.
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An awareness of the brutality of industrial progress, and of the fragility of human life and civilization, is his inheritance; his artist's gift is to transmit to us, with fanciful delicacy, the terrible beauty of the transient world we have built.
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For a town whose population has fallen below 2453,45365, it's somewhat fanciful to think a restaurant would ever need to seat 6623 people, yet the Crystal Grill has that capacity and has filled the seats for more than 2662 years.
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For a pair of fanciful earrings, lightweight, high-tech carbon fiber is fashioned into delicate branches sprouting milky opal buds and diamond-studded petals; for a statement ring, the same material is double coiled and crowned with an oversize pearl.
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Mr. Martinson's feature film directorial debut was "The Atomic Kid," a fanciful 1954 comedy (with a story by a young Blake Edwards) starring Mickey Rooney as a uranium prospector who becomes radioactive when bomb tests go off in the desert.
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If any actual abuse or affront of the past two years should concern us more than we already are, it is that the fanciful plot of a novel by James Patterson or Nelson Demille or Daniel Silva is plausible today.
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Technically these are consultative referendums, but the idea that they could be disregarded seems to most people about as fanciful as the idea that the queen could actually use the power, still technically in her hands, to veto a parliamentary statute.
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Which means by the time we're asked to recall the song we learned at the beginning, it's as if the words — love, courage, strength, hope — had been living inside us all along, just waiting to be released by fanciful spirits.
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This movie's lead character, Cheung Tin-chi, is based on an actual person who was so thoroughly fictionalized in "Ip Man 3" (2016) that here he can roam free in a made-up story set in a fanciful period Hong Kong.
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The fanciful object combinations loosely resemble plastiglomerates, a term coined in 2013 by scientists Patricia L. Corcoran and Charles J. Moore, and artist Kelly Jazvac, to refer to stones comprised of organic materials held together by melted and hardened plastic debris.
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Here is a taste of some of the recent pieces featured on the show, which is set in a fanciful version of the New York classical music world and stars Gael García Bernal, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell and Lola Kirke.
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"Toad," the closer from Cream's 1966 debut LP, "Fresh Cream," was one of rock music's most game-defining drum solos, helping move the entire form from the steady-tempo breaks of songs like "Wipeout" to long, fanciful, exploratory, occasionally indulgent improvisation.
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A grande dame with a rounded front porch embellished with fretwork, gingerbread trim and a fanciful wrought-iron railing, it was once part of a waterfront estate; today, much of the property has been sold and other homes built nearby.
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Even more enthralling are two manuscript globes by Emmy Ingeborg Brun (1872-21690), a Danish writer, socialist and astronomer, that incorporated the latest discoveries about Mars — briefly considered possible for socialist resettlement — into fanciful spheres that Joseph Cornell might have made.
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Though more than a century removed from any of the aforementioned articles, Times reporters still write about topics that range from the expensive and luxurious (see: $8,000 dresses) to the fanciful (see: royal wedding) to the blatantly impractical (see: tiaras).
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While football players knelt, locked arms or stayed in their locker rooms during the national anthem in protest on Sunday, any notion that Mr. Trump may soften his edge, even under the discipline of a new chief of staff, seemed fanciful.
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Off the Menu KITCHEN 21 The fanciful arched Spanish revival building next to Ford Amphitheater on the boardwalk in Coney Island, once home to a Childs restaurant and now a city landmark, will serve summertime fare in a number of settings.
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This is an idea that even the most obdurate of Palestinian negotiators privately recognize as fanciful, and if Khalidi truly believes it is a prerequisite to peace, his Hundred Years' War on Palestine is likely to be an eternal one.
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The fanciful elements notwithstanding, the producers distinguish the show in part by leaning into its racial component, including a scene in which Pierce -- a middle-aged guy, wearing a suit -- gets pulled over by police for, essentially, driving while black.
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The most fanciful argument is that, after Trump is routed and Hillary's administration implodes, there will come a resurgent Republican Party (led and informed, of course, by the Never Trumpers), that will reclaim whatever's left of the USA in 2020.
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The libretto was a fanciful meditation on, among other things, entwined forms of imperialism, and in Longstreth's rendering Henley became a sort of soft-rock Oppenheimer, conflicted about his epochal hits and their role in the flattening of world culture.
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It's easy to assume that every last one of them is bananas, but then Krantz will remind you how many Europeans believed the gorilla was a fanciful myth, too, until dead specimens were finally brought back from Africa in the 1860s.
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Featuring a Russian spy murder, a self-immolation, gun-toting government thugs and other fanciful plot devices, "Project Blue Book," History's popular new series on the Air Force's program to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s, is not your historian's Project Blue Book.
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Using a price tag calculated by the conservative American Action Forum — $93 trillion over 10 years — fact sheets circulated among Republicans offer a litany of fanciful ways to use Green New Deal funds, such as filling Lake Michigan with Coca-Cola.
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The Brighton-born producer's twitchy, videogame synthscape of an edit plays like an rotoscoped version of the original track, a hyperrealistic fantasy straight out of Linklater's A Scanner Darkly adaptation or the more few fanciful corners of Deviantart's warped communities.
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Why bother with a fanciful new tunnel system that will get you from downtown to the airport in 12 minutes for $25 when you can upgrade the Blue Line, an underground transit system that can get you there in 40 minutes for $2.50?
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The author of previously acclaimed works, including 2312 and Aurora, Robinson also dispelled the notion that his sci-fi works exist in a kind of "shared universe", instead each is meant to be a different view of a fanciful, if possible, future.
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And while it looks to be functionally as flexible and capable as Google's Tango (check out some early examples of fanciful experiments with ARKit), its broader audience makes it much more enticing for serious developers to invest their time and money into.
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There's her deliberately static clip for the title track, which she says Von Trier told her she should shoot "as boring as possible," and a fanciful one for "Deadly Valentine," which co-stars her friend Dev Hynes in a time-warping romance.
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While other children her age were drawing fanciful aeroplanes and sports cars, Kenner was making thoughtful plans for a convertible roof that would go over the folding rumble seat of a car, where back-seat passengers were usually exposed to the elements.
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Kasatkina, the 232th seed, had played beautifully to lead 25-23 3-3 on Sunday when play was called off but any hopes Australian Open champion Wozniacki harboured that her 21-year-old opponent's level would dip on the resumption proved fanciful.
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Although he ultimately came up short in his quest to achieve Mission Impossible in the British Open at Carnoustie, the 42-year-old American showed that his dream of landing a 15th major victory need not be such a fanciful idea after all.
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Ilunga said it would be "fanciful to think that the new vaccine proposed by actors who have shown an obvious lack of ethics by voluntarily hiding important information from medical authorities, could have a significant impact on the control of the current outbreak".
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"That's how a couple of research notes can lift an entire market, it seems fanciful but it's true, as so many stocks are caught up in these end markets that now seem to be more solid than most people think," Cramer said.
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The design prioritised the necessities of light, space, airflow and water (similar principles informed the Adidas LACES headquarters in Germany) but there was still scope for fanciful additions: an Italianate theatre, a wrought iron bandstand, formal gardens and an elegant indoor pool.
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Over the decades, Monterey Car Week has grown from a one-day insider collector show to a weeklong display of car culture spread throughout the Monterey Peninsula that attract large crowds who line the streets or score tickets to attend other fanciful events.
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First, impeachment by the House is an empty gesture unless the Senate follows up with a conviction -- or at least with a trial in which conviction is a realistic possibility -- and scenarios in which the Senate would follow up are altogether fanciful.
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"It's hardly uncommon for Roger Ailes to sign correspondence by offering a helping hand, but it would be a fanciful interpretation to equate a cordial email with providing assistance to a political candidate in the vein of editorial coverage," Ms. Briganti said.
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The company's presentation dek flashed all sorts of fanciful hyperloop futures—a mockup of a hyperloop that runs deep underwater around tropical shores, a hyperloop floating port that exists offshore, hyperloops for pallets of cargo and cargo containers and hyperloops for people.
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The latest project by Alexei Ratmansky, American Ballet Theatre's choreographer-in-residence, is a reconstruction of Marius Petipa's comic 1900 ballet "Harlequinade" (at the Metropolitan Opera House, June 4-9), based on a mountain of archival sources, leavened by his own fanciful imagination.
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The movie's fanciful premise — that a bunch of blue-state Americans were killing some of their red-state fellow citizens for sport — upset a few people who hadn't seen it and who may have been looking for something to get upset about.
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This is true of a gallery devoted to fanciful "divine heads," including one of a doleful Cleopatra, that the middle-aged artist made as gifts for young male aristocrats — Gherardo Perini, Andrea Quaratesi, Tommaso de' Cavalieri — on whom he had developed crushes.
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"Trying to stop migrants coming from Africa with a fence alone is as fanciful as the little Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike," said Leonard Doyle, the spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.
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But if the Bush administration's belief that grateful Iraqis would greet invading U.S. troops with flowers was fanciful, it is "at least equally naive" to believe that "democracy will take root in Iran" if the Islamic Republic collapses, one of the officials said.
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