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HUDSON "Flights of Fancy," encaustics and oils by Nancy Ghitman.
Unlike the Dardennes, Lapid's direction is prone to flights of fancy.
It lacks the earlier show's surreal interludes and flights of fancy.
Just... y'know... with lots of jokes and surreal flights of fancy.
They're flights of fancy, portraits of the artists as young men.
The Media Lab was created in 1985 to encourage flights of fancy.
Precedent suggests that, for some, failure will only redouble their flights of fancy.
Thus the court orders her to allow your flights of fancy RE: fancy flights.
Some on Twitter were quick to praise the ambassador, including some flights of fancy.
Even when Mr. Saraceno careens off into flights of fancy, the scientists are tolerant.
The Intrepid Museum The Intrepid focuses on both actual spaceflight and flights of fancy.
This experimentation found its natural counterpart in the flights of fancy in Mr. Potts's fiddling.
Yet with Sorokin's Gogolian flights of fancy, even a dead-end road is worth taking.
His policies veer from shopworn banalities (lifelong learning) to flights of fancy (regionally set interest rates).
Please accept this truth: Most automotive commercials, to put it mildly, are outright flights of fancy.
Her stories are infused with interesting factoids, small memories and insights, and whimsical flights of fancy.
At first, some of Mr. Brown's council peers resisted his ideas as idiosyncratic flights of fancy.
Here the narrative weaves itself together through drawings of  costumes, set designs and cartoony flights of fancy.
Their over-excited assessments of how much these might be worth sometimes look like flights of fancy.
Like all good AS-P flights of fancy, the world of Steiner Mountain Resort is extremely specific.
The result was very much of its time, mixing flower power, faith and poetic flights of fancy.
Mulder constantly gets in his own way, alienating superiors with his combined arrogance and flights of fancy.
"Show Dogs" mixes digital effects with footage of trained dogs to achieve its elaborate flights of fancy.
I think it's pretty symbolic of our relationship because we were both prone to flights of fancy.
It seemed Younger itself was too taken with its romantic flights of fancy to grapple with this fact.
Mr Judd's amber box and Mr Morris's felt works look earthbound next to Kauffman's bright flights of fancy.
The second thing it does is more interesting: it implies that Musk effortlessly makes his flights of fancy real.
Sure, Pisces are prone to flights of fancy, but a little bit of imagination isn't necessarily a bad thing.
But that's not to say the company isn't prone to wild flights of fancy — quite the opposite, in fact.
He also dismissed so-called helicopter money, where the population is effectively handed out money, as "flights of fancy ".
Have we not had weird and unexplainable thoughts, disturbing dreams, fits (or is it flights) of fancy and madness?
Cautionary tales about AI were all over Sundance screens this year, and not as sci-fi flights of fancy.
Over the show's previous three seasons, Neolution vacillated wildly between hard sci-fi and convoluted, "what if?" flights of fancy.
Trump has proven himself unable to conjure up legislative majorities for his immigration policy ideas or budgetary flights of fancy.
The moon will be in Pisces tomorrow, which will make us a little more prone to daydreams and flights of fancy.
I fear it would assert itself, like a tour director, over the flights of fancy born of the nonspecifically occupied mind.
But Mr Gilliam's fans will lament the almost complete absence of his usual flights of fancy and darkly spectacular handmade special effects.
On stage, his anger is tempered by self-reflection and flights of fancy that make for a uniquely thoughtful night of comedy.
The celebrated Israeli animated feature "Waltz With Bashir," from 2008, took a similar approach, intermingling combat scenes and visual flights of fancy.
But, taking a deep breath, I concede that it is, stripped of its flights of fancy, an important revisionary work for 2017.
In drawing every day for nearly three years, Blake has produced a playful diaristic record of their moods and flights of fancy.
But, at the same time, Pisces get a bad rap for being too wrapped up in their own feelings and flights of fancy.
Better are the flights of fancy that imagine us all as individuals seeking to better our own condition, oblivious to attendant social costs.
"We wanted to integrate video-game aesthetics and moments into the narrative—crazy flights of fancy that were almost abrasively interactive," Scheinert said.
This album won't settle into the background, as Wakeman embellishes and obscures familiar melodies with trills, squiggles, filigrees, and improvised flights of fancy.
It's about these minor miracles and other flights of fancy, and it's kind of about saving the world, one city block at a time.
He was famous for his rapid-fire one-liners, surreal flights of fancy, use of fanciful words like "tattyfilarious" and marathon stand-up shows.
There are few flights of fancy or spontaneous improvisations in Porter's writings to friends—for such a famous wit, there is remarkably little wit.
It will take someone with the reason, experience and gravitas of General Mattis, plus his extra star, to counterbalance General Flynn's flights of fancy.
All of these flights of fancy are a problem, and I've also written on my frustrations with the series's failure to be, well, Christian.
Comensal moves through several responses to Ramón's worsening situation, most of which encourage the proud atheist's fatalistic, interior raging and bleak flights of fancy.
She's been the sister who knows how to ground her family members when they stray too far into one of their frequent flights of fancy.
Although she hid it from teachers, parents and peers, Kidder was already experiencing bouts of suicidal depression and odd flights of fancy as a teenager.
Critic's Pick Ethan Lipton's delirious Western comedy features a pigtailed gunslinger, a soul-sucking demon and singing puppet cactuses, among other inspired flights of fancy.
The term "dreamlike" often gets overused and thrown around to describe flights of fancy, but The Lion and the Roc #1 fully fulfills the phrase.
But sometimes, our destiny dreams us and pulls us toward it, defying our own personal flights of fancy, plans and ambitions, and even logic and reason.
That's then intercut with dramatic portrayals that occasionally erupt in absurd flights of fancy, like musical numbers and direct-to-camera chats with made-up characters.
Short flights of fancy meant to show off some foreign or fantastical location or just stories are far more prevalent than traditional interactive apps and games.
The film occasionally slides into flights of fancy, even magical realism, while feeling very true to the kinds of twists and turns real friendships can take.
Well, depending upon what you think of Kanye's ego-tripping flights of fancy, this AI spit-bot's bars might actually be as good as the real thing.
A new film essay by Zach Prewitt gathers some of the 76-year-old director and producer's finest flights of fancy into a rejuvenating three-minute video.
Perhaps no one understands better the law of achievement, which holds that emotional crashes follow great flights of fancy, than Michael Phelps, a 28-time Olympic medalist.
As a girl, Suzan imagined her dolls and toys as objects that could talk, fly and climb mountains — flights of fancy that she never wanted to squelch.
When Grace returns, Frankie is upset that Grace constantly dismisses her; Grace is upset that she constantly feels the strain of fixing Frankie's flights of fancy-created messes.
It's that dadaist streak of alt-history, frenetic editing, and flights of fancy that are at the core of how Chung operates as a storyteller and game designer.
And as a tribute to NASA, "A Space Program" is rich in the core elements that have always propelled humanity's flights of fancy: imagination and the right tools.
American leaders can indulge in such self-exculpating flights of fancy via a stolid ideological refusal to deny the true implications of a state built on racial power.
But for all its invention, "Maniac" keeps the "Inception" convolutions to a minimum, toggling intelligibly between the lab and the flights of fancy in Annie and Owen's heads.
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is known for his wild flights of fancy, for films that soar into the sky and don't stop until they've headed into deep space.
Vera has his own minions, Peanuts (Young M.A) and Javi (Jahneer E. Williams), who view both their boss's flights of fancy and Elliot's shattered psyche with wry bemusement.
But, as a child, instead of trusting Márquez and his flights of fancy I trusted movie directors, who told me that things would not be all that magical.
The references to obscure pop culture are still present, but they often head off into the flights of fancy that recall the more hilarious corners of social media.
Similarly, Trump likes to characterize the border as a haven for drug smuggling, going on flights of fancy about drones or "sacks of drugs" hitting agents on the head.
They only did this on full moons, because when you're famous and talented you can get away with flights of fancy as long as you keep bringing that heat.
He's working here with writer Patrick Somerville, whose credits include "The Leftovers," a series to whom this Netflix series -- with its surreal flights of fancy -- owes a considerable debt.
These flights of fancy were what distinguished Staffordshire potters of the era from their equally skilled counterparts in China and Europe — only the British dared to be so weird.
But the uninitiated could try "The Moderns" (on Saturday and Thursday), from 1988, whose Lost Generation milieu gives shape and even some verisimilitude to Mr. Rudolph's verbal flights of fancy.
Many of the tracks on the album are testaments to the genre's origins, productions that begin with pre-existing dance templates and take them on stranger, decidedly stoned flights of fancy.
Suddenly Jan, a philosophy graduate of Reed College with a strong penchant for getting caught up in twisted and protracted flights of fancy, started talking about the murders in Bel-Air.
While for Salvador Dalí, his contemporary, food encouraged flights of fancy—evident in "Les Diners de Gala" (1973), a surrealist cookbook, republished in 2016 by Taschen—Picasso preferred simple, classic dishes.
There were evasions and white lies — in college, Mr. DeMeyer said he was the son of German nobility — but for the most part, Mr. DeMeyer's flights of fancy seemed relatively harmless.
And who, having heard the rest — the coke-snorting billionaire bad guy, the climactic battle, the many dystopian flights of fancy — could resist helping Riley get the thing up on screen?
Mr. Axelrod's signature sound mixed the flexibility of jazz and the lusciousness of soul with the influence of composers like Wagner and Stravinsky and a penchant for psychedelic flights of fancy.
A release of the complete report won't ground the endless flights of fancy (or not) that Americans have engaged in around what Trump and his people did in 2017 and 2018.
From ensemble players getting star turns to dark flights of fancy to some previously unexplored comic-book adaptations, it's looking like a good slate—we suggest clearing some space on the DVR.
The results, which continually oscillate between flights of fancy and gritty realism, are influenced by the social, economic, and political landscape, as well as by technological changes within and without the medium.
If you watched sci-fi staples like "The Jetsons" or "Back to the Future," you may have indulged in flights of fancy about winging it to work and waving traffic jams goodbye.
But it's easy to see its influence in a show like FX's Atlanta, which often embarks on cinematic flights of fancy and indulges in a healthy dollop of surrealism with every episode.
Masaaki's animation, while still beautiful, is perhaps the least abstract it's ever been here, focusing on realistic details (such as Hinako's clumsiness when making her breakfast) instead of magical flights of fancy.
As astrologer Kimberly Peta Dewhirst writes, we may be more prone to flights of fancy during this retrograde (especially this time around, since Neptune will be in Pisces, the dreamer of the Zodiac).
After all the program's surreal moments and strange flights of fancy, "The Leftovers" got back to basics with its series finale -- a deeply romantic look at two people brought together through unspeakable grief.
Critics, and other organists, sometimes harrumphed at the interpretive liberties and flights of fancy that Mr. Guillou took in a time in which the trend, especially in early music, was toward historical fidelity.
In drawing every day for nearly three years, Blake (who goes by "they") has produced a playful diaristic record of their moods and flights of fancy that evidences their charmingly mischievous artistic spirit.
As of the time of production on that show, Woods was living with Jenner in L.A. On Life of Kylie, Woods was the grounding factor, a voice of reason amid Jenner's flights of fancy.
"He won't be but a minute" the pointer might say, leaning against the pock-marked wall of some Bavarian castle, cigarette in hand, waiting for whenever its partner returns from your flights of fancy.
Screenshot: FacebookSlipping-on-a-banana-peel-into-a-pile-of-rakes firm Facebook, a name which is now synonymous with massive, irreparable fuckups, has recommitted itself to mistakes, failures, and harebrained flights of fancy.
She is a first generation Portuguese woman born to immigrant parents from Victoria, B.C. whose whimsical, earnest flights of fancy on Whoa, Nelly—specifically "I'm Like a Bird"— captivated MuchMusic video countdowns in 2000.
Her first two albums, The ArchAndroid (2010) and The Electric Lady (2013), bury a smattering of catchy pop-funk beats beneath fussy arrangements, orchestral interludes, florid filigrees, and social commentary obscured by flights of fancy.
As an assembly project, it's closer to a paper airplane than to a full-scale Lego X-Wing, so you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the flights of fancy of a true aeronautical pioneer.
And over the course of its run, it found ways to tell stories about the difficult emotional territory of the tween and teen years while also making plenty of room for inventive flights of fancy.
Even if you like the show, you like it for its surreal flights of fancy and its nightmare logic, the way that it seeks to explain nothing in concrete terms but maintain a terrifying emotional core.
Some of the shared traits include complicated flights of fancy, occasionally blurring the lines between fact and fantasy; and doling out story in measured drips, advancing the plot at what often feels like a snail's pace.
And, again, Monsoon was next to him, playing the perfect straight man, his nobility and decency cast as relief against Heenan's acid one-liners and flights of fancy where up was down and bad was good.
While in view Bute's work seems ethereal, aerial flights of fancy performed by whips of light and cascades of moving shapes synchronized in perfect time to musical accompaniment, the making of them was far from esoteric.
Tulips that taste like hot dogs, podcasts for movies no one's ever seen to completion, and a mall where you can pay a tiger to lick your hair into an updo are among Nowak's flights of fancy.
They could learn something from Adventure Time, a show that used its 11-minute episodes to explore myriad genre ideas and flights of fancy, and to demonstrate the endless potential of simply being artistically open and flexible.
In her bestselling memoir from 2005, Jeannette Walls recalled her fraught relationship with her father, a whimsical narcissist who both delighted his family with imaginative flights of fancy and terrorised them with alcohol-fuelled fits of rage.
What sets the film apart from the other Toy Story movies is how beautifully those themes are integrated into an incredibly fun adventure story that leaves plenty of room for action sequences and comedic flights of fancy.
Yet unlike Bush, 85033 who in 1991 urged congressional action on one particular bill on that stage, Trump's "flights of fancy" covered his disdain for MS-13, sanctuary cities, chain migration policies, and those who criticize cops.
Today, when hiring, smart companies should be looking for diversity not just in age, gender and race, but also personality types — creative versus non-creative, introverts versus extroverts, flights-of-fancy innovators versus boots-on-the-ground implementors.
But, last night's penultimate Scandal episode, "Standing In The Sun," proves the Shondaland treat is finally going to pay the piper for its more incomprehensible flights of fancy as next week's Thursday, April 19, series finale looms large.
Perhaps this means that some of Trump's supporters aren't suckers and merely enjoy indulging in his flights of fancy: They think it would be great if Mexico paid for the wall, but are aware that Mexico probably won't.
But where Anne is a lovable puppy dog of a character, eager to please and to be pleased and willing to find her own flights of fancy funny with hindsight, Emily is cooler, more serious, and more restrained.
Cameras that recognize facial expressions, sensors that detect heart rates and software that assesses a driver's state of awareness may seem like superfluous flights of fancy, but they are increasingly viewed as part of an inevitable driving future.
The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is in a category of its own, concerned more with relationships and mental illness than with fame-chasing, a more down-to-earth approach even when it zips into musical flights of fancy.
Carney said the BoE had scope to do more stimulus in the form of rate cuts and quantitative easing, but ruled out negative interest rates, and rejected "flights of fancy" such as handing out 'helicopter money' with no strings attached.
" In one of the flights of fancy to which Davutoğlu was prone, he declared: "On the historic march of our sacred nation the AK party signals the birth of a global power and the mission for a new world order.
There, he meets an Irish nationalist named Adelina White, who becomes a one-woman audience—a kind of ideal reader—for Melville's flights of fancy as they journey across an English countryside that looks a lot like Giono's French countryside.
But in a normally functioning political party, a president — who has to stand for reelection before a national audience — serves as a restraining force for congressional party members, who mostly have safe seats and can afford to indulge in ideological flights of fancy.
Republican leaders in Congress seem content to go along with Trump's flights of fancy, knowing that crossing him could well provoke a weeks-long outburst from the White House and might dispirit the party's base in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections.
His flights of fancy offered an escape from his everyday (one ex-girlfriend gave him a mug embossed with the word "Dreamer") and he admits to still feeling self-conscious today, more at ease when at play than in his own skin.
Both Lodge 49 and Northern Exposure have a hefty interest in religion and philosophy, and both are fond of flights of fancy that take the characters out of reality and into surreal dreamscapes that seem designed to make them realize they live in fiction.
Interestingly, one of the filing's flights of fancy is the possibility of a "removable end cap" that can be swapped for other modules: For example, an end cap could be installed that would allow two devices to be connected together and act as one system.
"Jane the Virgin" has been a kind of miracle practically since its inception (and conception), a show that mixes comedy and drama, goofy flights of fancy, crazy twists and even a sinister villain that became sort of the female version of James Bond's Blofeld.
Editors' Choice In a sense, all books are black box flight data recorders: They put us at the scene and grant us access to conversations and events we couldn't otherwise witness, even when the flights in question are only (or "only") flights of fancy.
The series, from Moonlight co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, alternated between theatrical flights of fancy, depicting David's visions of the world around him as a kind of dreamscape, and more realistic looks at how horribly underfunded David's school was and how much poverty had hurt?
King of the Hill, which ran from 1997 to 2010, has some of the same small-town charm and low-key humor of the 1563s classic The Andy Griffith Show, but the fact that it's animated means it can also indulge in weird flights of fancy.
But at the occasional moment when the movie begins to feel clunky, it suddenly explodes into buoyant, infectious renditions of Springsteen hits like "Thunder Road" and "Born to Run" -- not as a jukebox musical, exactly, but in flights of fancy that blur into Javed's fertile imagination.
And in Bailey's case, I'm not talking about playfulness as anything less than a contemporary Master's control of his sublime form, content, and craft being so profoundly internalized and impassioned that walls between seeming flip-sides of life – like gravity and whimsy, weight and flights of fancy – merge.
But "Rocketman" is more given to flights of fancy than "Bohemian Rhapsody": When Egerton sings the title track, for example, the song begins at the bottom of a pool as John duets with his childhood self, then culminates with John blasting into space and exploding in a firework.
I wonder if the writer Jen Silverman has had the same experience, because her inspired new play, "The Moors," rolls out like the stuff of dreams, with telling passages heightened by surrealistic flights of fancy — including that mastiff and hen in an archetypally pleasing, you-really-ought-to-see-this parable.
He's simply hanging out on his podcast with a few of his buddies, most likely high as a kite, watching fights, just a fan, and indulging in the kind of flights of fancy we all do when we allow ourselves to give voice to our most intoxicated amateur-matchmaking fantasies.
Lest anyone think that this is merely one of the President's flights of fancy, he is in fact simply voicing the conclusions of the Defense Department's 2019 Missile Defense Review, a major report that examines the state of the missile threat against the U.S. and what countermeasures might be taken.
Thanks to the unwavering support of one of the most famous families in the world, a presentation that is always shrouded in mystery up until the very last moment, and a creative director known for his egomaniacal genius and temperamental flights of fancy, the fledgling Adidas brand has all the hallmarks of greatness.
If it weren't for the show's ironclad narrative tethers, after all, its abundant flights of fancy would feel precariously overleveraged, inconsequentially unmoored — merely and manically "random," like the friend telling you all about his crazy dream, or the amateur improv troupe in which everyone wants to be Will Ferrell at all times.
Set amid a picturesque array of landmarks in the Los Angeles area, the film indulges in visual flights of fancy that you'd expect from vintage Hollywood musical spectacles—an astounding and joyous opening number set on the Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange, a surreal sequence inside the Griffith Observatory that literally defies gravity.
But there's not a need, and I can't conceive of a situation in which there would be a need, to have such flights of fancy here in the UK. The stimulus that we designed has been targeted not at the exchange rate but ... to support the domestic economy and we would expect it to flow mainly through that.
And in the series' most unexpected installment — "Voyeurs," airing September 1 and written and directed by Dayna Hanson — the show becomes, for 25 minutes, a ballet, about a housekeeper cleaning the room while imagining the life of its current guest, before things take a turn and the audience slowly realizes just where her flights of fancy are turning.
Hartman's riff on Bill Clinton as a hamburger-loving ladies' man was far from the most unique take on that president, but the '90s were also an era when America's status as a sole, economically comfortable superpower allowed SNL to indulge in its true strengths of coming up with memorable recurring characters and strange flights of fancy.
There is no question that Ritter is speaking to us in our present moment—there are mentions of Google and lamentations that the "holy war today is anything but spiritual"—but he festoons his flights of fancy and mental peregrinations with a dizzying assortment of historical personalities, from Klaus Mann and Xavier de Maistre to Marga d'Andurain and Suleyman the Magnificent.
He's also given to gently self-lampooning flights of fancy — such as a panel where a beautiful woman, referencing the association between Jewish creativity and subversive forms of entertainment culture, exhorts the artist to "Ravish me with your jungle music and comic books, Jew"; allusions to comic books and the Jewish contributions to that canon; and finally, playfulness (albeit largely twisted and dark).
Big Mouth, now in its second season on Netflix, is animated in faintly grotesque style, partially to accommodate its bizarre flights of fancy — various monsters, a moving Statue of Liberty that speaks with a French accent, a pregnant pillow, the attic-dwelling ghost of Duke Ellington — but also, as one meta joke in the first season's finale observes, to get away with the comically graphic content.
Just as 2-Tone ska was a punky and distinctly British offshoot of Jamaican ska, dubstep began with British dance producers making dubs of two-step garage songs in an attempt to emulate the Jamaican recording engineers who, on the B-sides of reggae singles, would use original tracks as the source material for experimental flights of fancy, tuning down vocals and emphasizing the rhythm section while introducing ghostly effects and squelches to the affair.
Speaking on his podcast this weekend, UFC color commentator Joe Rogan—one-third of whose career involves luxuriating in the joy of rumors and conspiracy theories (about subjects as varied as bigfoot, UFOs, government cover-ups, and human growth hormones)—gave himself over to perhaps the greatest of all MMA flights of fancy, telling his guest, former MMA lightweight Yves Edwards, that he had heard talk about a prospective fight between Conor McGregor and Nick Diaz.

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