| 单词 | fanciful |
| 例句 | “The whole thing seems fanciful to me,” said the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Collision with a floating mine might explain explosion, but seems fanciful, besides highly unlikely as sinking started at stem, which in all likelihood would mean that hull breach was at stem too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There is another quite different problem exemplified by these stock-market forecasts and fanciful explanations of success. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Never, not in her most fanciful dreams, had she imagined that the opportunity to speak with Dorian Havilliard would arise. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z For all his fanciful storytelling and talk of open minds, what had Lazlo really expected to find as the caravan approached the Cusp? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Yes, the women liked the fanciful stories that she told to amuse restless tykes, and they admired the little threadings that she made. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the fanciful notion that perhaps we had died in the fire, that we were all lost souls, forbidden to enter heaven. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z And since it doesn’t come naturally to many elementary students, it must be furthered by doing numerous problems, some practical, some more fanciful. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you honestly think I wouldn’t realize why you came here tonight? As someone who gave me The Crown of a Hero to read, which suggests a rather fanciful mind that yearns for adventure?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The equation involved a certain amount of fanciful math, but there was no disputing that the cyclotron was beginning to pay its way as a producer of radioactive isotopes on an industrial scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He understood about Esther, during those nine days: that she considered his fear and trembling fanciful and childish, a way of making life more complicated than it need be. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Some were like small castles, while others looked like ships or space stations, and still others grew like trees, with fanciful balconies and rooftop gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But for all that, we still see that even the most fanciful of stories hold a shred of truth, because I did find something very near to the mad hermit in the woods.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Those who believe that advocacy challenging mass incarceration can be successful without overturning the public consensus that gave rise to it are engaging in fanciful thinking, a form of denial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Or was that just one of the fanciful details a good jokester would think of. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Brambleweft starts to sketch—billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her hair was done up in fanciful curls, and she wore a brilliant tiara. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Ross, whose life I had tried to write, was charged by the Communist party with “antileadership tendencies,” “class collaborationist attitudes,” and “ideological factionalism,” phrases so fanciful that I gaped when I heard them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, many other people saw the star as well, and many fanciful accounts of its significance were circulated in 1573. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Muff’s idea about Henry didn’t seem so fanciful. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind one stall an armorer displayed steel breastplates worked with gold and silver in ornate patterns, and helms hammered in the shapes of fanciful beasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The whispers were fanciful and improbable: the youth of Soweto had overthrown the military and the soldiers had dropped their guns and fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After I went missing, Tessie felt that this fanciful idea was truer than ever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were many, and all had fanciful names. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In some places the ubiquitous vines had been woven into living wreaths and other fanciful patterns. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There is no room here for evasive, theoretical, or fanciful interpretations of the law.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z But ironically, the Zanesville elite was right in its fanciful prediction that Odessa was bubbling with a bounty of riches. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned our bucket upside down, sat on it, pulled a length of string from my pocket, and wove it into a fanciful pattern around my fingers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of stone knights stood sentry at the entrance, armored in fanciful suits of polished red steel that transformed them into grif-fin and unicom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Others murmured “selkie” from time to time when she was remembered, but only as a fanciful tale. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Especially when one of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature!” said Emma playfully. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z In preparation, men and women borrowed each other’s finery and planned fanciful disguises. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kidwell, a fanciful woman, had been standing at a window watching dusk tint the outdoors, the sprawling prairie. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lying on the floor beside the fanciful rocking horse, hands laced behind his head. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Gangster Squad” would have been more fun as an animated feature, with fanciful animals in the principal roles. Movie Review: ‘Gangster Squad’ With Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone 2013-01-10T22:30:08Z And in some peculiar way the making of those more fanciful films may have sharpened his sense of the importance of visual precision, his highly developed taste for l’image juste. Film: He?s Fought His Own Way Back to Work 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z 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. Hotel Review: The WineBox Valparaíso, Chile 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z I first became aware of Graves through his fanciful tea kettles featuring songbirds, whistles and spinners. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z There was the house, bright and beautiful, more fanciful than we might imagine belonging to a Quimby or a Huggins. Beverly Cleary, Age 100 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z A festive wine vessel from the 18th century has a vase supported on the back of a fanciful, rainbow-feathered bird whose breast rides on a pair of ornate wheels. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z 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. A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Webber’s impressionistic drama is both an emotional and fanciful father/son story. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z 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. 29 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z As fanciful as both she and her style are, she professes a surprisingly passionate belief in authenticity. Possessed: Muriel Brandolini?s Love of Jewelry - Possessed 2011-09-23T22:28:23Z 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. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z A taste for the fanciful is actually not so new for Mr. Kaufman. Director?s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat 2010-09-30T21:18:00Z The result is a New York that blurs fact and fiction, a fantasy vision of the city, less reflective of the realities of urban life than the fanciful notions of them ingrained in Anderson’s sensibility. ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: When Wes Anderson Imagined New York 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Pesky mice cause no end of trouble in this fanciful holiday tale, and they're so charming that you almost end up rooting for them in their perennial battle against a phalanx of toy soldiers. Mice make mischief at McCaw Hall 2010-11-29T22:16:00Z Mr. Greenspan is always a delight to watch, with his ability to integrate comic shtick and fanciful histrionics. | 'Go Back to Where You Are': From Amphitheater Bit Player to God?s Errand Boy 2011-04-13T02:01:25Z But it’s a fanciful show, too, where Caroline’s appliances come to life, and her children end Act One with a sweet, infectious fantasy number involving a singing moon. For Sharon D Clarke, a ‘Big Sing’ and a Big Broadway Moment 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z During another vignette they skulk onstage in what is clearly meant to be a state of heavy inebriation, each lost in a private world filled with fanciful or tormenting visions. 2010-01-11T08:06:00Z If Sharpe's treatment of his subject is at times fanciful — a National Cat Club meeting is whimsical — it is always respectful. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The acclaimed author of works including “Eurydice” and “The Clean House,” Ruhl goes nearly overboard with fanciful caprice in “Melancholy Play.” Review | Sarah Ruhl’s quirky take on depression at Constellation 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Another show, “In Costume,” by Seattle ceramic artist George Rodriguez, is a fanciful grouping of stand-alone dresses, wildly varied in their glazing and texture. Burgers’ ‘Eternalism’ : flower power with philosophical twist 2013-01-10T22:12:03Z This might sound fanciful, but seen for the first time, 8 Spruce Street is a visceral shock to the system. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z But the choreography they performed, by Francesca Harper, was so flimsy and poorly constructed that the fanciful title of Mr. Adams’s music remained descriptive. Review: Attacca Quartet Serves Up John Adams, With Dance as a Side Dish 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s also entirely fanciful, which was an alternative direction for drawing. A Gathering of Greats in a Trove of Drawings at the Morgan 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z My aim has just been to give the flavor of the Darwinian process in simple and, at times, fanciful terms. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z At the Morgan, the book is opened to a fanciful volvelle in which a green dragon with orange wings, representing the constellation Drago, serves as a pointer to indicate lunar and solar eclipses. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z If you’re of a fanciful disposition, you may liken the movements of the dispersing crowd to those of the Red Sea after Moses commanded it to part. Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “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. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Then there is the occasion when the clue writer is indicating something rather fanciful or not strictly literal as the cryptic part, such as 'Green paradise? Azed slip No. 2,109 2012-11-25T11:00:00Z And people who live in the city will also be cured of many fanciful notions they might entertain about the idyllic wholesomeness of rural life. Damn His Blood by Peter Moore – review 2013-06-11T10:16:10Z The walls and floors of its new showroom are draped with Lindstrom’s fantastic array of rugs, including nature-inspired designs, bold geometrics, and fanciful patterns created by collaborating designers and artists from around the world. Inside Lindstrom Rugs’ New L.A. Showroom 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Zhang probably may go too far with his fanciful tweaks. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z 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. ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.) 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Mozart’s fairy-tale opera, Ms. Taymor’s fanciful production and a winning cast delighted the audience, judging by the frequent laughter of the many children in attendance. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z He talks about the role of fantasy in his life, the fanciful things he loved as a child. The Girl with the Eloise Tattoo 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The fanciful urban skyline is rendered in gold, silver and black lacquer. Discoveries by Designers - May 2010 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s a fanciful stage image that touchingly evokes an inviting church interior. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z There is nothing fanciful about this merman and his existence. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Inspired improbably by Charles Rosen’s 1971 book “The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,” a seminal work of criticism, the opera includes those composers as characters, along with other fanciful characters called Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant. Steven Stucky, Composer Who Won a Pulitzer, Dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The birds are housed in the Lawn Aviary: four screened enclosures topped with fanciful domes that were built in 1995. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z It carries house-line leather goods and vintage items tagged with just enough provenance — say, the state where it was purchased — to inspire fanciful imagined back stories. Critical Shopper: Palmer Trading Company: A Twice-Told Tale 2010-12-23T00:37:49Z The idea is not perhaps merely fanciful: it could be the potent warning of a feminist myth. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z Where Jerinic’s New York is as prosaic as a government form, Matthew Mann’s Washington is fanciful. In the galleries: ‘Strange Landscapes’ explores gardens of unearthly delights 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z So she also slices some of her archival photos, and pieces the shards into fanciful, cartoonish collages. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z What would Easter be without fanciful chocolate eggs? An Easter Egg From Beverly Hills 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z 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. Review: A Dance Heginbotham Deserving of the Hype 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “Shiv” is part of Kapil’s “Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy,” which riffs on fanciful modern-day incarnations of Hinduism’s top trinity of deities: Brahma, Vishnu, and, in this case, Shiva. 'Shiv' connects the everyday and the metaphysical at Boston Court 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In presenting this great Czech opera, first performed in Brno in 1924, most companies seize on the chance to create fanciful animal costumes and beguiling sets that evoke leafy forests. Music Review: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-04-29T20:13:53Z His posers are allowed to costume themselves however they like, trying on fanciful personae in the process. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Visiting these stately homes provides more than just a chance to ogle some big, fanciful estates. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But then Sting has never made a secret of his highbrow aspirations, indulging them in ways both respectful and fanciful. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z On “The Mayor,” the new ABC sitcom, a rapper runs for mayor — and wins — and I don’t find it even slightly fanciful. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The comic scenarios, usually starring a neatly dressed Mr. Étaix, are fanciful yet grounded in emotional predicaments. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z Mitchell isn't being fanciful calling Hadestown an opera: she conceived it as a stage show, and it was first performed in a village hall "on a total shoestring" near her home in Vermont. Anais Mitchell: Greece is the word 2011-01-13T22:22:01Z While his training may not conform to academic orthodoxy, his fanciful flights remain grounded in his voluminous reading. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z In addition to the fanciful plot the play features many hallmarks of the time. | 'From Rags to Riches': ?From Rags to Riches? at the Metropolitan Playhouse - Review 2011-09-26T21:31:46Z “Surprise follows surprise; none feels willed or fanciful but rather received. … ‘Bolla’ is a splendid achievement and Statovci a major talent.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In fact, this fanciful notion is not as far from the truth as you might guess. The mythical history of mincemeat pies 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Bamboo-and-silk constructions lit from inside and depicting fanciful creatures from Chinese mythology hung in the atrium. Ai Weiwei’s Latest Canvas: A Luxury Emporium in Paris 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Heder, author, most recently, of the picture book “Fraidyzoo,” will lead children in creating fanciful adornments from recycled Navy Yard materials. Spare Times for Children Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Miller continues in a cheeky vein with "Will Work for Hone" and other fanciful explorations of the gay "bear" scene, both spoofing and celebrating hairy plus-size men. Two 'Hide/Seek' offshoots in Seattle, at Greg Kucera and Photo Center NW 2012-04-26T20:13:04Z Amid the rippling piano runs and fanciful violin writing, this music pulses with rigorous counterpoint and brittle harmonic writing that recall Stravinsky. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z As its title suggests, the “Back to Bass” tour is a realignment, a return to form after some fanciful digressions. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z The staging is inspired by Afrofuturism, the attempt to conceive new — often fanciful, sometimes celestial — circumstances for a people suffering under crushing oppression. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z If Durrell Stone’s original building was compared to the Acropolis and the Parthenon, Holl’s addition is more like one of Piranesi’s fanciful spaces, offering multiple views and perspectives and possibilities for motion. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z They “give off fanciful patterns of light on your walls, and create an instant romantic and flattering atmosphere, whether lit by candles or light bulbs.” Inspiration: Morocco 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z On stage, Odalisques, as if in an Ottoman seraglio imagined by Ingres, are dressed in fanciful harem pants in vivid colors, while the men appear in dense, rustic tweeds. What Christian Lacroix Did Next 2011-10-31T12:22:19Z Anecdotes from artists with fanciful minds and perhaps an ax or two to grind are mixed into accounts based on hard-earned historical work. Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The blank, abstract space this creature inhabits calls our attention to the fanciful nature of the movie itself, as it begins to conjure an antic, improbable world out of nothing. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z “Valley of the Boom” abounds with self-aware asides and fanciful fillips, and these are variously pandering, bizarre, and endearing. “Valley of the Boom,” Reviewed: A Rah-Rah Reënactment of the Dot-Com Cataclysm 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z I was drawn to the fanciful clothing — things like rope-yarn tops and peekaboo rower shorts — that were a universe removed from my fat boy pants. Thoroughly Reading a Men’s Catalog, Making No Purchases 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z When he reaches the merchant, he has the orchestra go crazy, making a place now for fanciful pathos at the end, which is sublimely Schubertean for maiden and, especially, child. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z He’s given them fanciful names like Ruby Toadstools, Flea’s Parasols, and, my personal favorite, Butterscotch Tinies. Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Somewhere beyond the Beltway and before we crossed the Shenandoah River, we saw a pickup towing a hot-air balloon’s basket, a fanciful mark of our urban exodus. Camping without the hassle: New service rents you all the gear you need, plus the car 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z That's the big game David Milch was after in his writing: finding the universal in the specific, the imaginative in the fanciful and the writer at the farthest reaches. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Its fanciful “lapses into imaginary history” include “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg,” by none other than Winston Churchill. Review | An expert’s guide to science fiction’s greatest — and neglected — works 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z There are very realistic stories; there are stories that are quite fanciful. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The idea that love can be communicated telepathically, and the beloved's presence conjured by her sufficiently "kindly" thinking, is so simply and touchingly put that it seems neither arch nor fanciful. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z 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. Movie Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z His determination to look into the immune system’s potential to fight cancer – an idea, according to the film, often dismissed as fanciful or failed – often drew skepticism. 'Some beautiful things are happening': behind Jim Allison's quest to cure cancer 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z With the use of some fanciful collar, Dug’s voice turns into something almost human. 11 Great Vocal Performances in Pixar Movies 2013-08-13T09:45:16Z Thom Browne created a fanciful garden in which models posed as flowers and shuttlecocks. At Proenza Schouler show, all rules about leather in spring melt away Other pieces are just as fanciful, like E. V. Day’s “Bridal Supernova,” which uses fishing tackle and hardware to transform a Barbie doll wedding dress into an exploding star. David Bowie and Other Artists Lead Children on a Galactic Adventure 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z 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. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Some exist in a realistic universe; others are more fanciful. From “Scalped” to “Thief of Thieves”: The most engrossing crime comics in history 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Instead, the dishes the series features — some entirely fanciful, like dwindling dewdrop cake, and others based on the real world, like gingerbread — become vehicles for creativity and problem-solving. ‘Alice’s Wonderland Bakery’: Recipes for Real Life, if Not Real Kitchens 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But since that day, separate versions — one factual, one fanciful — have taken hold. Recalling Jan. 6: A national day of infamy, half remembered 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Yet he keeps their plight too lightweight and fanciful to invite real empathy. 2010-01-13T22:45:00Z Bright beaded earrings and bracelets with fanciful details, like bedazzled hearts and daisies, are pretty much sartorial smiles. Too Cool to Feel the Heat 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z His most famous novel, the fanciful and discursive “The Master and Margarita,” is known to all Russian students, with the more concise “A Dog’s Heart” counting as scarcely less popular. Review: A Surreal Russian Opera That's All Bark and a Lot of Bite, Too 2010-06-22T12:41:00Z His very first phrase, which under other hands can sound perfunctory, immediately beguiled with its sense of fanciful play. A Fair outing for Bruckner and the horn, at SSO | Classical review 2013-04-14T20:59:23Z Our eyes pop as the table is covered with fanciful little sweets with the grace of a jeweler showing off gems. Review | At Fiola, less could be even more 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It was hard to separate the Sicilian cellist, who is also a fanciful composer and improviser, and the obscure Neapolitan composer. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The book is an alphabetical compendium, with entries showing and explaining fanciful Easter eggs, mosaics made from seeds and rice, carved radishes, butter sculptures, insanely elaborate lattes and intricate Japanese confections. The Art of Food 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z A melting mother, a Cyclops with a dating profile and other fanciful characters inhabit Ausubel’s latest collection of stories, many of which revolve around family life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Even more fanciful is “Mimicking Whooper,” designed with gaming software. In the galleries: Artist takes a detour on her journey to the past 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z They are dressed in clownish fashion, with brightly painted faces and wigs, and they add a fanciful element that sits oddly with the somewhat sardonic tone of the rest of the ballet. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Schumann considered Chopin a member of his fanciful “League of David,” a composer of principle who would fight against the musical Philistines. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Live singers are ingeniously incorporated onto what looks like a movie screen that includes aspects of live action along with Paul Barritt's fanciful animation. L.A. Opera again casts an enchanting spell with its silent-movie-styled ' Magic Flute' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z But the novel also epitomizes the transgressiveness that was once so daring and now, as Barnes acknowledges, “seems fanciful, decorative, egotistical camp.” Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The film, Anderson’s elaborate and fanciful ode to The New Yorker, is perhaps the starriest ensemble playing at the festival this year. Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ rolls into Cannes 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z 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. 6 Family Shows to See if You’re in New York for Thanksgiving 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Though several of the latest experiments in it may be both fanciful and forgettable, they don’t seem markedly decadent or mannerist. 2010-01-30T05:48:00Z It's a "map" made bright and fanciful by memory. SAM's 'Modern Ancestral': contemporary visions with age-old resonance 2012-05-31T23:42:06Z I just made up characters, mostly based on the publishers and songwriters I was running into, and told fanciful tales of trying to make some headway into the cutthroat world of music and songwriting. Bob Dylan called me a “scurrilous little wretch with a hard-on for comedy” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It's fanciful and incredible but then, so is much that children read. Has the diamond jubilee increased the number of 'royal' books? 2012-05-22T16:10:10Z They have big eyes and ears and frowning mouths, and several have metal components like swords and fanciful headgear. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z He appeared confused and was often confusing; he would say one thing and probably mean another, only to state its opposite as a counter-certainty not very long afterwards; he was fanciful, unreliable and exasperating. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z On the one hand, the fanciful idea that "it's so empowering that black women are now accepted in the mainstream as targets of sexual objectification just like white women". A good news story on Page 3 of the Sun, courtesy of black model Sylvia Barrie 2012-06-21T11:10:35Z William Simpson’s projection design provides a dose of whimsy, however, the watercolor renderings of a kite-filled sky or a pomegranate tree lending a fanciful storybook quality to the script. Review: ‘The Kite Runner’ Trips From Page to Stage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The weeks leading up to the Oscars are a fanciful slog of cocktail parties, luncheons, lesser award shows and industry screenings, all of which I chronicle daily in my role as the Carpetbagger columnist. The Carpetbagger: Glimmers of Hope for Small Films During Glittery Oscar Promotions 2010-12-01T22:58:00Z But as in Andres' fanciful play on Mozart, the further he strays from tradition the more remarkable a composer he becomes. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z This basic spritz is infinitely adaptable, flexible enough to take on different infusions as well as fanciful bitters and garnishes. 8 best light and refreshing cocktails for cookouts and picnics 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Here again, the situation sounds both bleak and fanciful, but Patchett writes with restraint, never indulging in overwrought language. Review | 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Goold is in better company this time: “Patriots” is a richer, less fanciful play, with grim resonances for today. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The loops are fanciful but efficient, and done very conscientiously. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z Bisset is marvelous, giving a very enthusiastic performance that leans into her character's more fanciful moments, and she is a joy to watch. Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Holly Daggers’s video projection filled the back of the stage with fanciful shapes that shifted from growing vines to pulsating squares that thumped in time to the music. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z The Cleveland Orchestra opened its centennial season by remounting its 3-year-old “only in Cleveland” production of “The Cunning Little Vixen,” a fanciful opera about a fox that wondrously incorporates animation with live singers and instrumentalists. The 'L.A. Phil Effect' hits New York, Cleveland and beyond 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Vallée told a fanciful, turbulent story about a young man coming of age in Montreal in "C.R.A.Z.Y," then immersed himself in English gardens and palaces for "The Young Victoria." Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Many of his designs look fanciful but they're always designed to address a client's practical need. Taking rock art to the wild side 2011-09-28T18:41:11Z If this sounds fanciful, it is nevertheless based on something powerfully personal. Seattle Opera's 'Amelia': Approachable music, a powerful story 2010-04-28T23:27:00Z Even the most fanciful details are carefully delineated and clearly based on close observation. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’ The story does have a fanciful twist, however. The 99-Seat Beat: When words and governments go on the fritz 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z For all of its fanciful depiction, the novel seems less interested in showing the redemptive power of imagination than in mapping the path of its disintegration. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Since the series began in the 1960s, the Bond thrillers have brought welcome — though unofficial and fanciful — publicity to Britain’s military and intelligence services. Commander Craig: 007 star made honorary Royal Navy officer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z That's especially true of the bigger pieces, which are industrial in heft, yet fanciful in form. Changing perceptions: Peter Millett's sculptures need to be circled to be seen 2010-07-22T21:51:00Z It is a fanciful intermingling of art, science and nature, except for the mildly confusing detail of a student with a tablet, which he holds up to photograph the scene. Their Wildest Dreams 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z At the Otto Lilienthal Museum, we saw fascinating and, at times, fanciful replicas and models of the gliders and aircraft designs he made. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z That is all fanciful film stuff, but the whirlpool gives a good feel of hallucinatory experiences, and is rather well done. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Such is the attire of Hoffmann, the mesmerizing raconteur whose fanciful yarn-spinning is at the center of Seattle Opera’s revival of composer Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Costumes help tell ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ at Seattle Opera 2014-04-23T19:38:37Z The lunch menu promises a “Moroccan spiced” chicken that is ceremoniously presented in a fanciful tagine, which turns out to be the most interesting part of the order. A new, young chef brings the drama at Mirabelle 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Chelfitsch, by the way, is a fanciful mutilation of the English word “selfish,” said as a baby would pronounce it. Theater Review: Toshiki Okada?s Under the Radar Entry at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-07T00:33:21Z Her recent interest in brain science shows up here - Boris and his paramour are both neuroscientists - but ultimately the story belongs to poet Mia, with her fanciful imagination, razor-sharp observations and captivating way with words. Hustvedt's novel explores marital infidelity 2011-04-26T11:37:08Z Unless Ms. Russell had you at “alligator wrestlers” — not likely — you may well recoil at every noxiously fanciful item on that list. Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z The recipes range from the basic to the fanciful, but they always work and they’re always delicious. The six cookbook titles this longtime food editor could not give up 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z So last year, when the 11th-century structure was due for a face-lift, Pucci jumped at the opportunity to cloak the immense scaffolding with 2,000 square meters of his fanciful print. Emilio Pucci Battistero Print Benefits Baptistery Restoration 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, Looper is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there. Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator 2012-09-27T12:00:49Z Early examples were fanciful takes on Chinese design. China wants a bold presence in Washington — so it’s building a $100 million garden 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z You might, if you were feeling fanciful, call him the Georgetown Manhole-Cover Man. ‘History right under our feet’: Decorative manhole covers are a window on Washington’s past 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z This was one of the problems with the Lego sets that proliferated in the 1990s, in which specialized, ornate pieces were associated with fanciful sci-fi themes, distracting from the original vision. Exhibition Review: In ‘Art of the Brick,’ Nathan Sawaya Works With Lego 2013-06-13T22:04:31Z Lacking the provocative sexual punch and catchy visual vocabulary of her husband’s work, Ms. Feinstein’s more abstract and fanciful work is seen by many to pale next to Mr. Currin’s. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z Gone is the chuffing train, replaced by a fanciful illustration of birds in a citrus grove, created by the artist Geninne D. Zlatkis. Completing the garden puzzle, one piece at a time 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Furthermore Nas’s penchant for narrative occasionally gets in his way; his stories sometimes distractingly fanciful, his ideologies a little too loose cannon. Critic’s Notebook: New Nas Welcomes the Nas of Old 2012-07-18T22:26:11Z Whereas Bedrock Gardens felt quirky and fanciful, Fuller Gardens is decidedly more manicured, reflecting its elegant country estate history. During the pandemic, a new appreciation for botanical gardens blooms 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z So many books these days offer kids social-emotional counsel; this one delivers down-to-earth ideas in a refreshingly direct yet fanciful package. It’s Party Time: Picture Books About Dancing, Drumming and Mischief-Making 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z To be fair, I don't think it was entirely fanciful. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z There are times when you are caught between laughter and tears in a way that makes comparisons with Chekhov seem far from fanciful. Absent Friends - review 2012-02-10T00:30:17Z I’m sorry in the extreme if this seems overly fanciful. Of time and academia 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z But there's really no need for fanciful comparisons: the fact is, The Origin of Love is simply a good record by one of the UK's more undervalued pop songwriters. Mika: The Origin of Love – review 2012-10-04T21:15:01Z It's a funny combination, this deeply gritty look at immigrant communities with the fanciful aspect of speaking to the dead. Biutiful Review: Overdosing on the Tragic Human Condition 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z In addition to being the chef at the pousada’s thatch-roofed restaurant, his other talents reveal themselves in the meticulously coiffed landscaping and the fanciful Gaudí-esque tile work that graces Santa Clara’s twisting pathways. Next Stop: Near Salvador, Brazil, a Paradisiacal Place to Disconnect 2011-03-11T19:59:19Z Stella Stevens plummeting into flames, wearing little more than a man’s shirt and, in my fanciful conception, strappy gold heels. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z 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. In the Latest Turn for Harry Potter and Company, Letting All the ‘What Ifs’ Out to Play 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Metro Manila isn't as brutal as The Raid or as fanciful as Monsters, but it is poetic, honest and at times almost upsettingly real. Sundance film festival 2013: Metro Manila – first look review 2013-01-25T12:56:14Z Simpson’s art suggests an unwavering commitment to what’s often considered fanciful — the details of the world that many of us need prompting to see. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The five major set changes — outside a village church, a pastry shop, a whipped cream world, a hospital room and a European-style plaza — are devastatingly tasteful and lavishly detailed, both realistic and fanciful. We're still on a sugar high: Run (or leap) to American Ballet Theatre's 'Whipped Cream' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In it he characterizes Mr. Perelman’s accusations as fanciful, while offering a rare glimpse into his gallery’s dealings. Larry Gagosian and Ronald Perelman in a New Legal Clash 2013-01-19T01:24:20Z Some of the topics he explores verge on the fanciful. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z The difference comes down even to their hotel-register aliases: Bill wants to hide by making their story as bland and forgettable, Virginia by making it outlandishly fanciful. Punch-Drunk Love: Masters of Sex Moves Up a Weight Class 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Thanos’s quest mirrors another, less fanciful mission to acquire powerful assets – that of Marvel’s parent company, Disney. Is Avengers: Infinity War an allegory for Disney’s worldconquering master plan? 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Since the work was never meant to be staged, its scenic requirements could be impossibly fanciful, culminating in a furious horse ride toward hell. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z Three hotels have grown around it, the most famous of which, the 1904 Old Faithful Inn, probably inspires far more gasps, with its fanciful, rustic, pine-log construction than the famed geyser’s jets of water. A Shrine That It Seems to Tame Old Faithful 2010-08-30T17:28:00Z I’m talking about the play itself: Rajiv Joseph’s smart, savagely funny and visionary new work of American theater, whose presence on Broadway invites fanciful comparison to the titular beast. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z 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. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “Passion Flower,” painted in 1943, depicts a fanciful flower that is illuminated from within and hovers in midair. Group show at Kayne Griffin Corcoran delivers beauty with an occasional bite 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z But filmgoers and television viewers may be more likely to associate him with roles that, though also fanciful, had a distinctly darker tone. William Windom, Emmy Winner and TV Everyman, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T19:20:06Z In a fanciful scenario, the performers were made up to look like eccentric scientists in lab coats who were inventorying strange instruments that seemed to be from an earlier era. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z It would be fanciful to make any direct link between the series' trajectory and the politics of the day – the show rejected the left's labourism as much as the right's neoliberalism. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z And, at the Critics’ Choice Awards, he wore a chocolate satin suit with a comically oversized soft-peach bow at the hip, a fanciful caricature of a cummerbund. Billy Porter Won the Oscars Red Carpet Before It Even Began 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Here are a few examples of heroes who, over the years, have made the fanciful universes of superheroes look a little more like the world we actually live in. Superhero switch-ups: A history of race and gender switches in comics 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z This play with songs might begin strongly and end brilliantly, but it is the 80 fanciful minutes in the middle that are the problem. Forever in Your Debt | Theatre review 2010-03-29T22:30:00Z The show is headed to Broadway in the spring, but L.A. has the timing just right: This fanciful musical is the perfect holiday bauble. The off-kilter charms of 'Amelie,' made musical at the Ahmanson 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z As a loud-and-proud champion of the Richard Curtis epic — which tells nine interwoven stories over 2 hours 16 minutes — Matthews has a high tolerance for its fanciful sentimentality. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z By high school, our tales had become less fanciful, and we were more interested in melodrama. “What if we threatened to kill him?”: My scary creative relationship with another girl 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z He has a heavy voice that barrels through these songs that sound like home recordings, full of white space, singing lyrics full of fanciful imagery surrounding plainspoken observations about broken relationships. Playlist: New Music From Breathe Carolina and Widowspeak 2011-09-03T00:14:47Z But in these fanciful sweets we may discover something that will not just sustain us or tantalize our taste buds but also grant us entry into a fictional world. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z And those "wings," on closer examination, appear to be more of a fanciful opera cape. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z The interior is warm in wood, with walls the color of butter, windows on three sides, a stretch of a bar and fanciful ceramic pizzas dressing up the front. Pizzeria Paradiso extends its reach to Spring Valley 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z What undergirds Matthews’s sometimes fanciful plot and characters is his attention to detail. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z She created a fanciful print featuring abstract lovers and another one with bunnies. For here or there, `resort' clothes are wearable 2012-06-22T17:16:04Z There are shots of a group of solemn black women dressed in fanciful white dresses, calling to mind the photographs taken at Solange’s wedding. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Is a Revelation of Spirit 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The Bastable stories were strikingly original in children’s literature because, even if fanciful, they were not supernatural. The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In the sketchbook, which Ally carries with her, she draws fanciful creatures and encounters, which take shape onscreen overhead as the audience watches. How They Staged a Little Girl’s Inner Universe 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The two artists are dressed in changing, layered outfits, distinct yet similar in their whimsical elements: detailed embroidery, rich hues, chunky knits, fanciful hats and, for swimming, plain white undergarments. Dance Review: ‘I came here on my own.,’ by robbinschild at Art in General 2012-12-17T05:20:05Z By the early 1990s, the pieces emerging from her studio were ever more fanciful and tall. BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective 2013-07-11T21:05:52Z Daniel Silver sets his human and humanoid heads on biomorphic lumps of plaster, on wonky columns and fanciful plinths, which are often more interesting than the heads themselves. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent 2010-06-06T21:00:00Z His novels — this is his sixth — are often fast-moving, fanciful looks at the upper levels of American politics. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter 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. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z And if it sounds too fanciful and wacky for the low-key humor of The Office, remember that Toby eventually ended up in Costa Rica with both legs broken. Game of Thrones to Gossip Girl: fan theories better than series' real plots 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z That Terezin inmates did not wear stripes matters little in this fanciful context. Review: Juilliard Opera’s Timely Double Bill 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Often lines that seem wildly fanciful allude to very specific historical facts and utterances. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z With this opening tale, one might expect a fanciful collection about the white Midwest, about lives in rural communities that once flourished and now, to varying degrees, lie dormant. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s not hard to imagine a more fanciful version of this show’s idea, taking the grid and giving it a sort of animated life, something that takes advantage of its implicit multidimensionality. ‘The Approval Matrix’ Begins Monday on Sundance TV 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The interest in invented languages, like Klingon and Elvish, appears a fanciful, if fruitless, pursuit to most. Game of Thrones' Dothraki inspires boom in fictional languages 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z James also thought Stevenson a genius, Oscar Wilde found him “a delightful master of delicate and fanciful prose” and, in a case of like calling to like, G.K. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Upon first glance, this installment is a departure for the Mulleavys, who are known for their fanciful designs. | Rodarte for Opening Ceremony 2011-02-15T14:00:36Z Glimpse a surreal world: reinvented tarot cards, a piano with three rows of rainbow-colored keys and other fanciful inventions. 2010-01-29T05:21:00Z And I come home with all sorts of fanciful cargo from our travels. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In the end, Portillo said, she prefers truth “because the truth includes dreams. And dreams can be fantastical and fanciful.” 'They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?' leads a monthlong look at Latino representation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z From these anonymous views of internal human parts she fashions delicate, fanciful necklaces composed of layered flowers with intricately cut petals. Exhibition review: From Legos to laminates, plastic is raw material for jewelry 2010-05-07T23:23:00Z Frenetic and meditative by turns, the work is divided into four sections, beginning with “Mirage,” in which the free-spirited violin line unfolds in fanciful, virtuosic and increasingly frenetic outbursts, here brilliantly played by Ms. Josefowicz. Esa-Pekka Salonen With Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z Sad news first: The best black bean soup in recent memory is history, and so is the fanciful mural of a sunny Havana. Review | The more Mexican, the merrier, with the arrival of Anafre 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z 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. American Blindness, Abroad and at Home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This is the only production of “Macbeth” I’ve seen that inspired the fanciful suspicious that these two might conceivably botch the job, so clammy with neuroses are they as they set about their work. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z There was the rare opportunity to see and hear in action the elaborate, fanciful, South Seas-inspired percussion instruments made by the composer Harry Partch. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z I wear loud dress prints and the occasional fanciful hat. Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel “quick and curious and playful and strong” 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The series’ creator Bryan Fuller’s other shows — “Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls,” and “Pushing Daisies,” all fantastic — share a dreamy quirkiness, but here all those fanciful urges are channeled into something darker. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Star Trek’ Films 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z More fanciful is the questionable notion, derived from Greek mythology, that Athens invented music. ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Whether the texts were somber or fanciful, poignant or impish, words came first. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Lionsgate aimed for fanciful artistry with a golden age of Hollywood sensibility. The Posters of ‘La La Land’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Throughout these performances, Meyerson did not feel bound by the written score, adding fanciful embellishments or triumphant cadences; truncating repeats or adding partial repeats as tags; and filling in chordal textures. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It should portray the whole of human nature in an imaginative way and imagination can rest on a certain sort of reality or it can be very fanciful. 'The arts cuts are madness' 2011-01-09T00:05:28Z Searchers in the forest are fanciful elitists, he suggests; their use of language is even on occasion tainted with fascism. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z It is particularly pronounced in a fanciful 1835 wallpaper design, from France, that included the bridge and Niagara Falls, geologically connected with a horse-drawn streetcar offering views of both. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z 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.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep’ and Anything Prince 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But Mr. Sellars’s concept, which presents the story with vivid realism and fanciful style, is unaltered. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z The Boxcar Children live in their own kind of secret land, an utterly plain Narnia or Terabithia ruled, to a fanciful degree, by the Protestant work ethic. “The Boxcar Children” and the Spirit of Capitalism 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The museum ended up taking several trucks’ worth, including furniture, lighting fixtures and one of the show’s more fanciful props: the carriage ridden by Death, played by the rapper Wiz Khalifa. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Among the many pleasures of this biography are its frequent quotations from Lear’s journals and fanciful letters. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Those demographics can mean that the fanciful projects some crypto entrepreneurs have proposed don’t always reflect public interests, and can seem driven by impulse. Crypto Joins the Abortion Conversation 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z At the avant-garde retail temple Opening Ceremony, which opened in 2002, fanciful sneakers, slippers and oxfords greatly outnumber high heels. Are High Heels Headed for a Tumble? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Starting out with a rented market stall on Portobello Road, he eventually wound up with his own fanciful emporium. A New Book Explores the Work of Geoffrey Bennison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Dozing one night in Chloe’s bed, Alice is spirited away to an alternate universe in which the fanciful figures of the Carroll books are transformed into groovy, multiethnic contemporary equivalents. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z While Federico Fellini continues to explore the fanciful world of his own making, and the Tavianis mine a rich vein of poetic folklore, this director is Italy’s most acute social chronicler,” Mr. Harvey continued. Ettore Scola, Italian Film Director of Satire and Farce, Dies at 84 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Other times, he comes up with something more fanciful. The Podcast That Tells Ingeniously Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The repertoire will include the choreographer’s “Firebird,” whose world premiere in 2012 at Segerstrom was reviewed in The Times as “an extravagant and fanciful adventure” and a “pop-up book of bold wonderment.” Music Center dance lineup for 2015-16: Second City, hip-hop, Ratmansky 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z But The Grey isn’t a fanciful monster movie, unless the men are the monsters. The Grey: Wolves Near a Plane 2012-01-26T21:15:21Z That appears on the label in much smaller print than the fanciful Vin de Jardin, a pointed contrast to the movement popular in the 1990s called vins de garage, or garage wines. A Farmer’s Dozen From Bordeaux 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z If anything, its look is wilder and more fanciful than the sober pen-and-ink panels of Ms. Satrapi’s books. Movie Review: ‘Chicken With Plums,’ About Contemporary Iran 2012-08-16T21:53:48Z Nicholas Stefanelli’s restaurant, Masseria, serves very skinny ones that, in a fanciful touch, are brought to the table dangling from ceramic octopus ring holders. Give the sugar a rest: These holiday snacks have savory Italian flair 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As we sampled her dishes, including a fanciful couscous with lobster and edible flowers, she explained her approach: “Moroccan ingredients, French technique.” A New Taste of Marrakesh 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z David Stubbs Go back a century, and the idea that Britain had urban and rural landscapes worth preserving was considered rather fanciful. TV highlights 07/03/2013 2013-03-07T07:00:15Z The gutter-punk costuming is fanciful, the performers are engaging, the story is accessible, the action is dynamic. Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Accelerated, at Public Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The film is peppered with fanciful sequences in which Aidan is some sort of fantasy hero with a robot sidekick, which contrasts sharply with the drab routines of mundane struggle that is his actual life. 'Wish I Was Here' should have wished for insight 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In Bellingham artist Ed Kamuda’s small oil-with-wax-varnish paintings on board, there’s a fanciful shorthand at work that calls to mind the work of Arthur Dove and Paul Klee. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z So perhaps “Medicine” is simply a work of fanciful mysteries. ‘Medicine’ Review: One Dose Reality, Two Doses Absurdity 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Wild animals at Woodland Park Zoo flash to life in fanciful light sculptures nightly at WildLights, a new holiday attraction for Seattle’s zoo this year. Woodland Park Zoo lights up for bright holiday nights 2012-12-05T23:41:43Z Dodgson’s is a less fanciful, more scrupulous biography. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z Ms. Wright and Ms. Watts address their roles with skill and conviction, but this has the effect of making the story seem even more fanciful and absurd. Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z All present were encouraged to learn and borrow from one another, to invent literally fantastic new materials to fit the trajectories of fanciful new hypotheses. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z Photograph: Reuters/Stephen Chernin To most, the premise on which the Men in Black films are based may seem pleasingly fanciful; but not to all. Men in Black 3's suits: the latest spin on well-laundered folklore 2012-05-28T11:28:12Z To celebrate the fanciful and insane science of comic books, here’s a look at some of the biggest scientific stretches. The most absurd scientific explanations for comic book superpowers 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But the film needs an injection of Bollywood’s unembarrassed, anything-goes, bigger-than-life spirit, which embraces willy-nilly — as does Mr. Rushdie’s novel — the vulgar, the fanciful and the frankly unbelievable. Movie Review: ‘Midnight’s Children,’ Adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Novel 2013-04-26T00:22:16Z Jack, the Leonardo DiCaprio love interest, is played by an octopus, who sneaks aboard the vessel disguised as a fanciful hat. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s fanciful to be discussing beautiful design in the face of horror stories about the city’s neglected, dilapidated shelters. Making Space for the Homeless 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A more fanciful food exhibition is the digital “Kneaded: L.A. Bread Stories,” from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which is being updated through November and then available indefinitely. Bread, Pastrami and Cocktails: Museum Shows Focus on Food 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Red Light New Music’s thematic concerts can seem either inventive or fanciful, depending on whether a listener is persuaded that the works at hand touch on the program’s unifying notion. Music Review: Red Light New Music Plays Christopher Cerrone - Review 2011-10-08T00:56:13Z One of the things that is so moving and exciting about Varda’s way of making films is how transparent she made her own fanciful, critical, witty process of looking. “While I Live, I Remember”: Agnès Varda’s Way of Seeing 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Titled “Dystopia,” the landscape surveyed in Estes’ seven paintings on paper, fabric and canvas hides its menace beneath supersaturated colors, fanciful patterns and sensuous surfaces. The gorgeous but threatening world of Marion Estes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He instead focused on constructing the fanciful Neuschwanstein Castle just up the hill, decorated with themes of brave knights, fair maidens and scenes from Wagnerian operas. Cobbles and castles in the Bavarian Alps 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z 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. American Artists, Inspiring and Enchanting 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z They started having their hair shaped and shaved and cut into fanciful patterns. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z The fanciful stories, seen in flashback, involve witches and giants and mermaids, small-town pep rallies and a traveling circus whose ringmaster is a werewolf. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z At first in film history, horror was fantasy and fanciful: it was Dracula, or Nosferatu, the spectre of endless night from which you could never escape. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z Gradually, Marco's utility to the khan will go far beyond regaling the emperor with fanciful descriptions of his vast realm. 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It's a juicy theory, if a bit fanciful. Shia LaBeouf and his amazing thunder-stealing abilities 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z 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. Some People Put on a Show. Others Stage an Art Fair. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Williams builds her songs through all kinds of unexpected gestures, but her solo playing isn’t fanciful or show-offy. Review | Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z It's an opulent overview of Trimpin's career, packed with color photos of one fanciful project after another, many accompanied by comments from Trimpin himself. Trimpin book salutes artist's contraptions, sound 2011-06-15T21:50:04Z Click here to see the fanciful frocks, shot in Perry’s own Pop Art–laden home. Lisa Perry creates outfits from Schumacher fabric 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Yet there is a stronger connection between fanciful form and real-life functional needs than what is practiced by other, flashier organizations. Exhibit highlights architecture as a product of its environment 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Man and beast, and man turned beast, are depicted throughout with a fanciful humor that still allows for clear-eyed compassion. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z Instead they ended up adapting her 2003 play “Eurydice” — a yearning, fanciful treatment of the Orpheus story in which Eurydice is reunited with her dead father in the underworld. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Wandering among domed greenhouses, I was drawn to the golden fuchsia hanging like maroon and gold earrings, as well as plants with even more fanciful names: lobster claw and lollipop and Joseph’s coat. A $100 Weekend in Chicago 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Awkwardly propped up in a corner of the gallery, the piece comes across as some kind of dream-world military decoy or fanciful war machine. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z Viardot wrote both the music and words for this chamber operetta about Cinderella, a fanciful interpretation of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet this was a performance that highlighted the music’s Romantic musings, poetic lyricism and fanciful flights. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z Baked goods, where we’re used to seeing fanciful colors, are one thing. This is your food on acid: Why edible rainbows have taken over the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee’s enjoyably fanciful script nicely meshes the grandiose and the mundane, but it’s messier than it ought to be. ‘War Lesbian’ Gives Ellen DeGeneres a Demonic Twist 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z 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. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “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. ‘The Get Down’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Feed Nostalgia With a Historical Remix 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The scenery and costumes — by Marcel Dzama, an artist with his own hip associations — are extravagant and fanciful. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It looks a bit like some fanciful machine you might find being pushed around a candy-colored landscape in a Dr. Seuss book. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Bach drew those wildly imaginative and fanciful but spare lines of melody and counterpoint, leaving it to the player to add color. From Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Sonatas and Partitas 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z My mother made all things fanciful; she made such a big deal of holidays. Bettye LaVette: “I’m kind of melancholy all the time, anyway – I think I live my life in B-flat minor” 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z At the center of “Perfect Skill” is a male duet, performed naked, which is more farcical than fanciful. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z "If the fanciful associations are removed, it becomes the imaginative experience, which is joy." The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Earnest discourse with "its makers, this new breed of young people with long hair and fanciful clothing" follows. Are you ever too old for pop music? 2012-06-16T23:06:03Z He spends about six hours a day working on his intricate, fanciful illustrations, starting with pencil sketches and finishing with ink, colored pencil and watercolor. 88-year-old artist finishes year of pandemic ‘daily doodles’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z They have ventured into more fanciful territory, devoting one recent episode entirely to poetry, and another one to butts. ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Inspired by nature, from predatory birds to writhing snakes, the designer skillfully folded exotic prints or fanciful feathers into a fashion lexicon that included plaid and tweed from his family’s Scottish heritage. 2010-02-11T21:30:00Z “I like nurseries and kids’ rooms that feel fanciful,” Twomey says. Eight great ideas from the 2015 D.C. Design House 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z For the installation “100 Chairs in 100 Days,” the Italian artist Martino Gamper spent 100 days building fanciful but functional seats from pieces of discarded furniture. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z 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. Stuart McLean, Who Created Radio’s ‘The Vinyl Cafe,’ Dies at 68 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The aggrieved ghostwriter presented here is clearly fanciful. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z By Jamie's standards, Moon is one of the collection's more fanciful poems. The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie – review 2013-01-19T19:00:06Z Mr. Inoue’s play is a speculation — poetic, satiric, fanciful and heartfelt — on what might have happened had these rivals met again six years later. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z 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. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes their predictions are accurate – from private space travel to the invention of Viagra – but on the whole their visions of lunar colonies, alien encounters and physical immortality are disappointingly fanciful. Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review 2013-01-20T06:00:04Z Each entry is accompanied by a fanciful illustration and recommendations of the author’s most spellbinding works. 13 new Halloween reads to chill, amuse, inform and terrify 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The dancing monks, dressed in fanciful and ghoulish costumes, would shoo away malevolent spirits and usher in benevolent ones. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It will be followed by a 45-minute adaptation of Mozart’s fanciful “The Magic Flute.” 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z More fanciful is the vision Sheri sees one night when she’s decided to sleep in the store rather than drive home between her two work shifts. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And covering the opposite wall is perhaps the most fanciful of Harrison’s additions: a vast five-panel screen carved with a relief of Harrods coated in silver paint. Turning Tables 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z By the early 20th century, women’s food was commonly described as “dainty,” meaning fanciful but not filling. How steak became manly and salads became feminine 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z As the couple squabbled in a partly realistic, partly fanciful living room designed by Christopher Scott Murillo, events failed to build momentum, emotions refused to flow. In 'Yohen,' Danny Glover is like a bull in a pottery studio 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z If shopping today, be careful about being extravagant, because you will be tempted to buy luxurious, fanciful items. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Wp ArrowRight Comment GiftOutline Loading... 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The whole notion of honeymoons has been fanciful, if not bizarre, since they came into fashion. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z There was no need for fanciful décor: the uninhibited dancing, throbbing beats and spilled drinks were their own kind of decoration. Scene City: In Brooklyn, Two Days of Peace and Music, Sort Of - Scene City 2011-10-18T17:34:46Z It’s one of the fanciful touches Haslam employed throughout the residence. Designer Nicky Haslam Adds His Trademark Flair to a New Orleans Home 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Little artists can also draw inspiration from the museum shop’s temporary installation and sale of fanciful works by Kite House Magoji, a family business in Kitakyushu, Japan. What to Do in New York City in August 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In four novelty pieces by Tchaikovsky he showed his fanciful side. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z The opera, about Gandhi’s work in South Africa from 1893 to 1914, is sung in Sanskrit and features fanciful puppets and innovative video projections. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z It was a tricky proposition, especially since the truth is so fanciful that it might enhance the myth. ‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z That assignment fell to Industries Show Canada of Laval, Quebec, a builder of fanciful entertainment attractions, with origins in the elevator business. New York’s New Carousel Puts You in a Whirling School of Mechanized Fish 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In truth, the idea of him as an outsider had always been fanciful. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z 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. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The idea that this is going to be much of a solution is fanciful at best.” De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z Like Koch, Graziano, when entertaining such seemingly fanciful ideas, shifts into a mode that oddly mixes lyricism and technical rigor. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The work is figurative, but the color schemes and compositions are fanciful, as Humber delightfully heightens the scenes’ reality. ‘Drama and Design’ brings together works by regional artists Yvonne Twining Humber and Blanche Morgan Losey 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Boylan's book may be fanciful, but the belief that the airwaves crackled with the dead was widespread, even among rationalists. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z One described it as "a nice, big hit … fanciful, imaginative and thoughtful", while another argued that, despite a "constrained and universal" performance from Rylance, the play "doesn't justify it's two-and-a-half-hour running time". Mark Rylance stars in self-penned play 2013-04-15T12:53:57Z It’s still a fantasy but it’s not childishly fanciful. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Winston Churchill wrote a fanciful essay in 1930 entitled “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg.” ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z When brunch is over, the balloonists will leave their fanciful creations for restaurant employees to enjoy. They make balloons into a full-blown art 2010-09-16T19:42:00Z Ms. Venn Frederic said the appeal of the dress was in its “fanciful and disruptive” character. Collecting to Explore ‘Origin, Culture, Form, Function and Race’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Slowly, though, the chirpy, fragmented phrases evolve into obsessive cyclic figures, while fanciful bits slip into the creaking music. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z From the train station, I threaded my way past churches with green copper spires and gabled, half-timbered houses in fanciful colors — peach, mustard, sage — toward the newest attraction, the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In fact, it's not too fanciful to say that the auguries for new opera in this country are very good indeed. With George Benjamin's Written on Skin, British opera takes a bold step into the future 2013-03-11T15:52:00Z Tel Aviv's street art is some of the most vibrant and fanciful you'll find anywhere. | Tel Aviv 2012-09-21T13:00:55Z Ms. Ruhl’s libretto is already a fanciful intervention into the classic myth, so Ms. Zimmerman felt, she said, “like we have to lean into the thing that it is.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Some of the fanciful creatures mentioned in the story actually exist, as, for example, the supercow and the micropig, not to mention many of the genetically modified crops we consume. This Week in Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle on the Perils of Genetic Manipulation 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Aiken, a children’s-book author, treated her fanciful premises with deadpan seriousness, creating an atmosphere that’s ironic and enchanted all at once. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Sellars drew on a fanciful, experimental tradition that had been coursing through America’s theater and new-music scenes for decades but was largely missing from its opera. In DVD of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Hints of Sellars’s Future 2012-06-08T19:21:28Z I was drawn to the Heron American Craft Gallery, which features fanciful works and quirky gifts, and the Foreign Cargo Gallery, with exotic items from all over. Frugal Traveler Blog: Litchfield County, Easy on the Wallet 2011-10-04T17:28:19Z Some other related concepts to the Oblique Strategies were the Fluxus movement’s fanciful and inventive “Fluxkits” and Fluxus boxes—one particularly inspired example of these boxes, by George Brecht, was called the “water yam” box. Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: the famous deck of cards behind "Another Green World" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Hours before the parade started, several hundred people gathered to don fanciful costumes and makeup, including a skeleton cupid on rollerblades, a marching band wearing skeleton face paint, and women in traditional Mexican dresses. In burgeoning Day of the Dead parade, Mexico remembers earthquake casualties 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z And it’s a treat to follow the progress of the store’s famously fanciful holiday window displays, which provides a throughline for the film. Wit, style on display in Bergdorf Goodman documentary 2013-05-23T20:21:22Z The animation, by Titmouse, makes the fanciful “Adventure Time” look like photorealism. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Closer inspection, however, exposes the elaborate boiserie as a stroke of fanciful trompe l’oeil—the paneling is actually a custom-printed velvet wall covering. Christofle Turns Its Melrose Place Outpost Into a Classic Parisian Apartment 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Female editors and retailers seem more willing to be swayed by a young Pygmalion rhapsodizing about some fanciful but unflattering silhouette than a young woman doing the same. Rosie Assoulin: A female designer infiltrates fashion’s ‘boy wonder’ club 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Three years ago, the Apple TV+ show “Dickinson” gave her a 21st-century update — a fanciful postmodern mash-up that many scholars embraced as true to the poet’s radical spirit. Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’ 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Most hinge on a gimmick or a one-liner, but even when they overstay their welcome by a beat or two, their fanciful wordplay is theatrical, surprising and engaging throughout. Balancing sweet and tart, it's an 'Almost' happy holiday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The twin cappers to this story sound fanciful, the kind of multiple twists on a gag that Edwards called "topping the topper." 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z But in this country's sometimes wacky betting industry, bookies accept wagers and set odds on whatever fanciful idea crops up in a gambler's head - from predicting showbiz split-ups to the discovery of extraterrestrial life. Here come the bets: Royal wedding fuels UK wagers 2011-04-26T11:28:11Z This connection is not simply fanciful: "Sherlock" was created by Steven Moffat, now the head writer and lead producer of "Doctor Who," and by Mark Gatiss, another writer for that show. 'Sherlock': A modern Holmes battles crime on PBS 2010-10-22T23:55:00Z Employees are the enemy here, bolstering the fanciful and generally wrong idea that one bad apple spoils the lot. Television Review: ‘Does Someone Have to Go?’ on Fox 2013-05-22T22:13:03Z This collection of historic, demographic, cultural and artistic maps of America veers from the fanciful to the informative and back again, and will force your imagination into some unexplored corners. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z Its one fanciful ingredient is that Wozzeck is haunted by Iraqi or Afghan children – silent apparitions. Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review 2013-05-18T23:05:43Z "Moonrise Kingdom" - First love is never this crazy and fanciful, but it sure felt like it way back when. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z Compared with the costumes, the scenic elements are relatively pared-down: Layered drop curtains denote fanciful Neoclassical interiors, airy rotundas, a formal garden and an autumnal mountain vista. ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Awakes to Vibrant Ballet Costumes 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z On stage, K-Doe dressed in bright suits with capes and crowns, as befitted a fanciful emperor. Biography of Ernie K-Doe captures quirks, talent 2012-04-28T17:44:13Z You regularly encounter programs bundled according to historical period, ties to other art forms or more fanciful notions. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z 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. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The fanciful fortresses that he added to the medieval walls of the town of Carcassonne are said to have been a direct inspiration for the 1955 design of Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland. Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, it was the dishes of the aristocracy that were the most bizarre and fanciful, part nourishment and part entertainment. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps a pretty label, a map, a critter or even some fanciful artwork of a mythical beast will catch your eye. Do you pour from a wine bottle for what’s in it — or what’s behind it? 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Her most celebrated creations, Secrest writes, transfigured the underlying ideas of the Surrealist movement, with "its emphasis on the unconscious, the irrational, and the daring," into fanciful, astonishingly original pieces. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Talking Point: Crowning the villa’s fanciful ballroom is a frescoed ceiling in the spirit of the Venetian Old Master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z That's how Time, our mythical narrator, sums up the fanciful events in “Melissa Arctic,” Craig Wright’s modern-day transposition of “The Winter’s Tale.” 'Melissa Arctic' an updated twist on 'A Winter's Tale' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The letters sure to get the most attention are the book’s most fanciful and most poignant. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Myer is well represented among the show’s most fanciful pieces, in which natural objects mutate into stone or brick. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z One of his fanciful schemes was to host a Grateful Dead concert at his family’s ranch in Wyoming for free, to attract as many fans as possible. My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z “But by letting history sweep through her fanciful tale, she also proves herself a conscientious scholar.” Barbara Mertz, Egyptologist and Mystery Writer, Dies at 85 2013-08-14T03:34:38Z Another way to put it, just as fanciful and no less accurate: the orchestra, in both its concept and its implementation, functions as an extension of her creative self. Music Review: Maria Schneider Orchestra at Jazz Standard 2012-11-22T22:44:08Z This workshop will focus on fanciful beings like dragons, unicorns, centaurs and harpies, and their representation in the galleries’ works. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The costumes, which facilitate everything from a Viking invasion to beehive activity, are extravagantly fanciful. Not your mother's psychedelia: 'House of Thee UnHoly #4' 2010-09-24T18:22:00Z A historical home, its furnishings and fanciful gardens were conjured out of historical documents to shed some glamour and prosperity on a town that mainly offers modest amusements and waterfront relaxations. Museum Review: Tracing Southern History From the Bottom Up 2011-08-05T18:12:02Z In this way, Justice Ginsburg is a bit like the Mona Lisa, whose likeness has also launched a thousand fanciful appropriations. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Gabriel has a lot of fanciful counterpoint going on that I normally would shy away from, because I would think it would be cluttered. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The cameras imaginatively segued from images of the entire orchestra to close-ups of individual players, zoom shots and fanciful overhead views. Critic?s Notebook: The Dutchman Flies Right Off the Wall 2011-01-30T23:00:18Z The hero, Michael Dork, is a geek with a fanciful idea of making computers talk to one another. Gareth Gates's trip to Loserville 2012-06-17T17:29:01Z There is some darkness, but it’s very fanciful, crazy, with funny moments. Q. and A. With Eva Green: Darkly, Demonically, Daringly ‘Dreadful’ 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Some are obviously self-portraits; others may have been modeled on specific sitters, and still others are fanciful. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z Since then, other confections have vied for my attention, most notably a fanciful little tower of cashew dacquoise sandwiched with buttercream and sweetened with guava. Review | Can a restaurant that showcases three Asian cuisines do them all well? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z But Eco’s murder mystery is a flagrantly fictionalized work of literary commentary; his novel wants us to meditate on the canonical prohibition of laughter via an obviously fanciful imbroglio. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z She is also a stylish writer, a talent that shows up in her emails, which are carefully crafted and sprinkled with fanciful touches. Sarah Jessica Parker, Leaving Carrie Behind With HBO’s ‘Divorce’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This could seem fanciful or time wasting when telling a big story in a small space; but he picked his spots. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z Also not to be missed are the fanciful ceramic vessels made by Zulu artists of Ardmore, a South African collective established in 1985. Art in Review: ?PAUL CLAY? 2011-06-30T21:22:45Z The settlers may have hoped to forsake the outside world, but the European newspapers and magazines of the day kept tabs on them as best they could and published mostly fanciful stories. Movie Review: ‘Galapagos Affair,’ Historical Documentary of Island Expats 2014-04-03T23:28:00Z While staying at the property, Duquette built a series of fanciful pagodas: Hertz and Doss felt a responsibility to keep them from becoming high-end, historical kindling. Building for Resilience in California’s Fire-Prone Future 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z However fanciful its portrait of the artist as a young woman, it’s very effective. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In southern Germany’s Bavaria region, the otherworldly 19th-century “King’s Castles” capture kids’ imaginations with a dramatic setting and fanciful architecture that inspired Walt Disney’s Cinderella castle. Top places in Europe to take the kids include Copenhagen, castles and a real magic kingdom 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The toys keep track of power gained during the game, which involves protecting the fanciful Skylands from the grip of an evil would-be overlord. Video Games: Unfinished Swan, Assassin’s Creed and Need for Speed 2012-11-06T22:45:43Z Onstage a band plays, while here and there around the room dancers in feathery, fanciful costumes gently gyrate. Dance review: 'Glimmer' goes boldly into sex, struggle, tensions, breakdowns 2010-04-26T20:35:00Z One book is aimed at travelers: portable, cute and filled with fanciful photos of old-timey Paris and suggestions for where to find, say, puppet theaters or a philately shop. Books: Portraits on the Page of Paris, London and Venice 2014-04-17T17:20:24Z The series is divided into fanciful chapters like “Cultural Affairs” and “Department of Sports & Health.” Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in ‘Pretend It’s a City’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z There are a few earthy elements — a running joke about a garden gnome, an islander’s late-term pregnancy — that help to balance the more fanciful aspects. ‘Islander’ Review: Two Young Women Lost and Found at Sea 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The “Oz” books are full of fanciful characters, bizarre situations and odd detours, and this series promises to be as well. Review: Toto, You’re Not a Basket-Size Terrier Anymore 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z This is important because this is not fanciful. In “Dear Rachel Maddow,” the MSNBC anchor becomes a fictional teen’s muse 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Everywhere a diner looks, there’s something to admire from abroad: an onyx ceiling gracing the bar, say, and fanciful mother-of-pearl inlays on the tables.” Review | Punjab Grill is a feast for all the senses 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Like a fanciful apothecary, Ironwood sells a beautifully designed collection of plants in unusual vessels, ornate minerals, taxidermy butterflies, scorpions and beetles, masks and contemporary Southwestern-inspired jewelry. What to Do in Denver 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Period switch-ups aside, Mr. Sullivan’s previous productions for Shakespeare in the Park have generally been marked by simplicity and emotional clarity, presenting the plays as truthful, albeit fanciful or painful, reflections of real human experience. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It was not fanciful to think that ordinary soldiers might enjoy a Shakespeare play. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z Outsourcing a pregnancy to India might sound fanciful, but it is legal. Origins of Love by Kishwar Desai – review 2013-01-26T18:30:01Z Mr. Jones, the author of the similarly fanciful but rather weightier play “Verité,” allows his admirably freewheeling imagination to run amok here. Review: In ‘Important Hats of the Twentieth Century,’ Saggy Jeans and Sweatshirts Make a 1930s Incursion 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Later than night, we cut the remains of ours into pieces and rebuilt it as a fanciful vinyl carport with air bypasses. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z First published in 1980, “A Liar’s Autobiography” was a deliberately fanciful account. This May Be Something Completely Different 2011-06-26T18:39:54Z Yet here he adds so many subtle twists — beginning with the book’s title — that he and readers sidestep from the familiar into a more fanciful landscape. Best poetry of the month: New collections by Billy Collins and Robert Pinsky 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Her designs may be everyday, but they’re more fanciful than practical, returning the mature woman to a presexual, innocent time of frolicking in the fields, mud pies and fingerpaint. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - Gudrun Sjoden in SoHo 2013-04-24T14:35:52Z 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. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z 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. Willa Kim, Designer of Fanciful Costumes, Dies at 99 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z A Houston butcher, Dellschau devoted his free time to envisioning fanciful airships like ones you might see in a Terry Gilliam movie. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z If Sloterdijk's reflections sound obvious or fanciful, consider again the long and vexed history of enclosed but transparent volumes as images alike of freedom and security, futurism and consolation. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z As these fanciful descriptions suggest, the plot may be hard to follow for those who are not already familiar with the legendary figures. Theater Review: ‘Monkey’ Is a Break From Usual Lincoln Center Festival Fare 2013-07-10T02:01:08Z “The humorous touches are fun,” the editor’s “Dear Ms. Goose” letter went, “yet there is a fine line between the silly and the senseless, the fanciful and the outrageous — in short, between nonsense and rubbish.” Charlotte Pomerantz, Inventive Children’s Book Author, Dies at 92 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Here’s a happier part of Mr. Schaffert’s story: he’s got a flair for writing fanciful titles. Books of The Times: The Obituary Writer Has the Upper Hand 2011-04-13T22:35:36Z In a fanciful moment in high school, he took the name Kenneth, experimented with it, and created on his own idiosyncratic spelling. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z It’s a land of half-timbered villages, rolling hills and fanciful castles — and where Luther’s bold attempts to reform the Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Two years ago, when an Orange County jail inmate requested special meals to celebrate the fanciful “Seinfeld” holiday of Festivus, Johnson cheerfully granted his wish. A judge shares Akin’s belief that women’s bodies “shut down” rape 2012-12-14T16:42:00Z Sloat reproduces the original pages she used, adorned with fanciful collages on the erased sections. New & Noteworthy Poetry, From the Ancient Greeks to Billy Collins 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Bartee is the more fanciful contender in this showdown, dancing to his own loopy beat, while Postlewaite is the tough guy and show-off, full of emphatic bravura. At Whim W'Him, comedy steals the show 2012-01-21T19:18:03Z A talented, self-confident orator, he defending himself after firing his lawyer and mocked the paper's allegations as outrageously fanciful. Ex-lawmaker faces jail over sex life perjury 2010-12-24T14:32:14Z He decides: “Lagos is a city of Scheherazades. The stories unfold in ever more fanciful iterations and, as in the myth, those who tell the best stories are richly rewarded.” Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z This connection is not simply fanciful: “Sherlock” was created by Steven Moffat, now the head writer and lead producer of “Doctor Who,” and by Mark Gatiss, another writer for that show. | 'Sherlock': The Latest Sherlock Hears a ?Who? 2010-10-21T22:24:00Z It is devoutly rational, even scientific: it contains descriptions of the world’s peoples that may seem wildly fanciful, but are based on the authoritative sources of Ricci’s time. 2010-01-20T05:23:00Z Makers were initially inspired by Italian Renaissance maiolica and French Palissy ware, and the molded earthenware — made in England and the United States — was fanciful yet practical, whimsical yet drawn from nature. Vibrant Pottery Filled With Whimsy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The works in the show range across genres and mediums, including abstract paintings, traditional figure studies, collages, documentary and art photography, and sculptures both fanciful and figural. An Exhibition Whose Curator Is 17 2011-07-09T05:02:48Z In spite of its fanciful tendencies, the film nails the growing pains that result from love and loss. 'I Believe in Unicorns' is a fanciful teenage romance 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Finally, Time is ushered in by the poignant twinkling of a children's instrument and tremulous synth that captures – apologies for the fanciful imagery but Granger-Howell will do this to you – the fluttering of a heart. New band of the day ? No 758: Lonely Galaxy 2010-03-31T15:58:00Z In this workshop for ages 3 through 10 at the Skyscraper Museum, participants will explore the exhibition “Woolworth Building @ 100” and design their own skyscrapers with fanciful decorations. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z Dennis’s pastel pictures combine floral and architectural imagery, imagining fanciful greenhouses outfitted with antic details. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z This is well-trod territory on television, where many of the best shows, no matter how fanciful, are essentially workplace dramas exploring, allegorically, the problem of work-life balance. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Such scale and attention to detail will no doubt delight fans of the sprawling, fanciful novel, especially after 30 years of waiting for it to reach the screen. ‘Good Omens’ Unites an Angel and a Demon for Judgment Day 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It seemed an indicator, albeit fanciful, that the battle for contemporary music had been won. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z At the same time, fan windows, broken pediments and occasional ornamentation can become fanciful, resembling some of the decorative furniture on display. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z It wasn’t just Jordan’s fanciful costumes holding the dance together, it was the dancing. Review: Remaking the Ballets Russes, With a Queer Spin 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z 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. How to Throw a Party Like a British Fashion Designer 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z When Lubbock made it in 2000, it was just a fanciful thing on his drawing board, made of scraps of found photos. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z A collection of fanciful, frequently enigmatic scenes, followed by an interactive installation, “LadyM” often works in clown mode. Review | A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Their fanciful interpretations represent a marriage of classic Louis Vuitton style and the famously idiosyncratic imaginations of the individual designers. Louis Vuitton asks six visionaries to riff on its famous monogram 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In those days she took to giving fanciful names to her outfits. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z Those shows include elaborate, fanciful productions that can win over a very young audience before a note is sung. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z In 1936 these fanciful buildings, commissioned by his widow, became Crossroads of the World, the first pedestrian outdoor shopping mall in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Unidentifiable burps, groans and other fanciful animal chatter rise from the undergrowth; a disembodied voice emanating from a hole in the ground talks about eating property developers and committing other laudably foul acts. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z New Yorkers were able to enter the artist’s fanciful realm over the summer, when her creations were on view in Madison Square Park. The Best Museum and Gallery Exhibitions of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Filled with casual omens — a snake tumbling from a ceiling; a gun-store clerk warning of danger — Heidi’s search grows increasingly fanciful. ‘She’s Missing’ Review: Gone Girl 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In the fashion world, Anna created a persona for herself, the way Americans once projected their fanciful dreams onto a silent Greta Garbo. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z We are sometime between the world wars, in a fanciful Europe of leisure and refinement. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z "One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever found a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the year," he said. The biblical story behind Mardi Gras' king cake and why you'll find a plastic baby inside 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Then they’ll make fanciful hats filled with flora and fauna, imitating the insects’ habitats. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z And Breckinridge was mired in debt, so the $50,000 in damages Pollard sought was little more than a fanciful number. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z With a fanciful, skillfully written score, the piece presents a beguiling present-day story of a group of hapless archangels having trouble recruiting a young woman to bear God in human form. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s a meaningless jumble of quips, witticisms and fanciful one-liners To begin with, your play is not a play at all. Noël Coward's wittiest lines – quiz 2013-07-05T12:58:31Z The book also includes images -- intended to be funny -- of fanciful birds crammed into cages far too small for their bodies. What animal lovers will hate about the new Dr. Seuss book 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The sonata, divided into three movements, opens with fanciful flights in both instruments, pointillist figurations in the piano underlying the soaring violin melodies played with brio by Ms. Cuckson. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z His debut release is the lush four-track EP Welcome Home and serves as a perfect introduction to his fanciful and feral, wild like nature ballads. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z The sheet music behind the violin isn’t just an artist’s fanciful rendition of random notes on a page. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z This might seem fanciful, but I think it makes sense. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Fascinators — fanciful bits of millinery confection attached to a headband or clip — are just as traditional at the Kentucky Derby as ornately decorated large-brimmed hats. How to make a Fascinator, a minty Kentucky Derby cocktail that isn't a julep — or made with bourbon 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z But the surprises of this ambitiously conceived, modestly realized work are pretty much over once you’ve accepted its fanciful premise. Review: Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy Debate Jesus. ‘Discord’ Ensues. 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z On Friday night “Trapped in the Closet” continues — formerly released on DVD, it is now being shown on IFC — slightly more fanciful than before, with an hour’s worth of new chapters, Nos. Television Review: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ on IFC 2012-11-22T22:48:45Z The heroine of Kevin Wilson’s fanciful second novel, “Perfect Little World,” meets her rescuer in the form of Dr. Preston Grind. In ‘Perfect Little World,’ a scientist hopes to create the ideal family 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Djurberg’s show, titled “The Parade,” includes a flock of 80 fanciful birds made of fabric, paint and other materials and ranging from pigeon to ostrich size. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” can now be read as fanciful, empathetic, and elegiac. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z She recalls encountering the vibrant patterns at a young age and noticing the fabric house’s fanciful window displays when she moved to New York City. Lisa Perry creates outfits from Schumacher fabric 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Worlds away from the sober dark comedy of “Transparent,” “Mozart” seems at first glance to be a fanciful exercise in magical realism. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z On Monday night the Met obliged Ms. Fleming with another house premiere, Rossini’s “Armida,” in a fanciful production by the director Mary Zimmerman. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z It sounds fanciful, but the episode is based on Tubman’s testimony. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z How the series came about is typical of the brothers’ practice: a commentary that’s both deadly serious and fanciful. Fernando Campana, Provocateur of Furniture Design, Is Dead at 61 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The hexagons of honeycomb, as drawn by Arsenault, seem so perfect as to be fanciful precisely when they are fact. Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z After drinking in the fanciful scene during a walk along the quiet eastern edge of the town’s waterfront, we headed for its newest attraction, the Grunberg Mountain cable cars, which started operating in summer 2014. Exploring Austria like a local in delightful towns unfamiliar to most American tourists 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z With its fanciful environment, dim lighting and evocative artifacts, it feels like entering another world — one where magic just might happen. Harry Potter, Frodo, Cowardly Lion meet at EMP Museum 2013-04-22T19:45:25Z Even the earliest portraits date from long after his death and are assumed to be fanciful. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z The premise is not as fanciful as it sounds, explains Ellis, who based her book on real-life interviews with Afghan refugees. Abduction, imprisonment, Taliban: the cartoons keeping it real for kids 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z David Lowery’s work of visual poetry takes a fanciful concept—what if we really do haunt our loved ones as ghosts after we die?—and turns it into a profound meditation on loss. The 11 Best Indie Movies You Might Have Missed This Summer 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The Sequenza for oboe features a palette of shifting meters, fanciful passages, trills, extended techniques and unexpected timbres, evoking multiple personalities fighting for their turn. Review: Berio to Cage to Mozart at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z She made the magical tangible in adventures which were somehow credible while also being entirely fanciful. Eva Ibbotson obituary 2010-10-24T17:13:00Z As Pharaoh, he’s garbed in a fanciful Egyptian hoop skirt and later takes on some of the female anatomical characteristics of his portraits. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The color is fanciful, the perspective delectably vertiginous. Artists Altus, Brock: a study in contrasts at Lisa Harris Gallery 2013-05-23T20:25:06Z This book’s dialogue has none of the distinctive zing of Mr. Huston’s more fanciful, darkly hilarious work, and some of “Skinner” is downright flat. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z It’s a fanciful but satisfying little coda to this project, thankfully confined. It Takes More Than the Kindness of Strangers 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He then assembled and transformed these pieces to create a new world alive with foliage and fanciful monsters. Escape from Piranesi's imagined jails 2010-10-05T13:00:00Z His quest for fine English and Chinese export porcelain, fanciful floral chintz fabrics and quirky accessories became a lifelong passion. Design royalty is all atwitter about the Prince of Chintz auction 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Distinctions abound on the menu, too, with the classic shoyu ramen — its broth rich and full of garlicky bass notes — getting upstaged by its more fanciful brethren. Hatoba goes outside the box with ramen and more in Navy Yard 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z 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. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Demand shows us a similarly fanciful diving board — namely, photography itself — for another leap into the void. Making photos, not taking them; the distinction in 'Perfect Likeness' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The most imaginative hors d’oeuvre rolls two French traditions into one fanciful bite. Review | Requin, worthy of its premier spot at the District Wharf 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z In many ways Chopin’s variations fall into the then-standard category of light, fanciful, unabashedly brilliant showpieces for piano and orchestra. Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Despite the fanciful nature of many of the Banks’ adventures and her own fascination with theosophy, mythology, and various forms of mysticism, Travers located power in the human realm, not the divine one. Mary Poppins can’t return fast enough: An adult in the room is the best fantasy of 2018 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Doyle is sparing with the fanciful flights that enlivened “Mink River.” ‘The Plover’: buckets of trouble on the open sea 2014-03-26T19:45:35Z Rows of symmetrical ironwork balconies are punctuated with fanciful details: bay windows, turrets, painted tiles, hanging lanterns, flower boxes, and carved reliefs. Tourist-crowded Barcelona is vibrant and spirited 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Two of her most fanciful photo essays in the book, “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Wizard of Oz,” were shot when her daughters were young — the oldest is now 20, the twins 16. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Fleming then reeled off a fanciful list of methods to eradicate Castro and any memory of him. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Of course, Cuarón may have a less fanciful disaster movie in mind, but something about the trailer's mesmerising slo-mo depiction of catastrophe in space hints at a cerebral subtext. Gravity likely to be less weighed down than Ender's Game 2013-05-10T13:59:00Z I was more aware than in 2012 of the different characters of the two acts: the first expository and vivid, the second a more fanciful — and more meandering — dark fantasia on Jesus’ death and rebirth. Review: John Adams’s ‘Gospel’ Displays an Orchestral Wizard’s Tuneful Ear 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Some of the contemporary work is more fanciful or meditative. Art, science, eco-concerns meet in ‘Vanishing Ice’ exhibit 2014-01-17T22:53:03Z 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. Review: In Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers,’ Enlightenment Is Elusive 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Here and there, fanciful presentation trumps the food on the plate. Review | At Punjab Grill, there are plenty of gilt-y pleasures 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The run was advertised with a fanciful video trailer depicting the couple as bank robbers on the run, surrounded by celebrities playing bit parts. Beyoncé and Jay Z Kick Off Shared ‘On the Run’ Tour 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Director Lin transforms scenes — often unnecessarily — into fanciful extensions of Mei's unspoken emotions, creating such effects as a crowd of living wooden animals and the distressing sight of the world crumbling into jigsaw-puzzle pieces. 'Starry Starry Night': Child actors brighten Taiwanese tale 2012-07-05T20:50:06Z A slow accumulation of increasingly fanciful detail deposits us, almost without our noticing, on the threshold of a fairy tale: The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z At the core, fables in film and TV offer what they have from the time they were passed from one generation to another around campfires — a heady blend of fanciful escapism and harsh reality. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z The halls are filled with fresh colors and fanciful designs in every size imaginable, a boudoir of infinite choice. Women are over the underwire bra 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z As a joke, he formed the Snowmen’s League, a fanciful private club that cost nothing to join but $100,000 to leave, according to Mr. Luhrmann; even L.B.J. was a member. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z At that moment, Ms. Packer’s face is an eloquent mix of astonishment and recognition, a reflection of a mother’s pride and sorrow for her extraordinary, fanciful girl. Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z And it’s worth glancing over the fanciful program: direction and choreography of “SoLe Sanctuary” are credited to “Spirits Known.” Dance Review: A Few Friendly Ghosts Help Out a Master of Tap 2011-06-23T21:43:56Z And an exuberant scene created by mural artist Melissa White pictures peacocks and other fanciful creatures in a lush palace garden. Zoffany’s Jaipur Collection Showcases Indian Magnificence 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Artwork and fanciful essay complement each other vivaciously. Review: Seattle artist creates entire worlds with paper and scissors 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Handsome or fanciful woodworking craft is mixed in with the fine art: Frank Renlie’s “Cat Table,” in which a feline painted on pine wood follows the contours of the furniture, is a special treat. Bainbridge’s new art museum: eclectic selection for every taste 2013-08-01T21:44:49Z As he recounts his epic tale, with the days stretching into months adrift, the story becomes more and more fanciful, the imagery more spectacular. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-27T05:00:17Z The surrounding area is a fanciful fusion of indoor and outdoor space. Check In : A South Beach Hotel for Gawking, Not Sleeping 2013-02-06T20:48:10Z The colors can be fanciful, notably in renderings of bright-blue cows and night scenes whose reds are too hot to have been elicited by moonlight. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z They might also present them with a fanciful headline, like “The End of MTV.” The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z As fanciful as these innovations may sound, none are hypothetical. Imagining the Retail Store of the Future 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Milioti’s character lives in a lovely doorman apartment on a freelance book reviewer’s income, a scenario that, even with rent control, is more fanciful than anything that ever transpired on “Game of Thrones.” Review: ‘Modern Love’ Is Charming but Uneven 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Each does a fine job, particularly Mr. Rivera, who wields a fanciful imagination both on the multiple masks this phantom owns and on many of the women’s costumes. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Phantom’ in Bellport, N.Y. 2012-09-01T04:29:56Z It’s the charm of the models that made it such fun; they were little miniatures of fanciful domiciles. How Mr. Rogers Became Everyone’s Neighbor 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z As in the Apple and Gabriel plays, food is an anchor, grounding abstract and fanciful talk in the reality of subsistence. Review: Listening to ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Virgin Ears 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It may, I suppose, be fanciful to link William Blake's sick rose and Dante's celestial blossom, with the worm as Satan, corrupting the vision of the divine order. Poster poems: Roses 2011-04-08T10:04:54Z Art historians say that of the hundreds of paintings and drawings Mr. Stella created, more than 70 percent depicted his fanciful view of nature. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z As Mr Zamoyski suggests, it is not too fanciful to detect in Metternich’s Europe the birth of the modern police state. Reactionary days 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Many of the notes include drawings, and one features a heartfelt message to Seuss and the museum that takes visitors to places both real and fanciful. Will the Dr. Seuss museum be one of the places you’ll go? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z As fanciful as it is — and as difficult to quote in a family newspaper — the narrative is rooted in the author’s experience. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z When it came to building a fanciful narrative of his own, he would recycle the same elements, changing them fundamentally in the process. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Men’s suits — jacket, vest and pants — are equally fanciful. 5 Places to Shop in Venice 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He would sometimes say something rather fanciful, he had a marvellous imagination. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Some of the designs might seem fanciful — like a city with a 2,000-ton ceiling that descends to crush rebellious inhabitants — but they were made to explore the realities of urban life, Frassinelli said. Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “The lawsuit is without merit and fanciful,” the group added in another statement. A Violinist Lost His Seat and His Job. He Blames China. 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Elephants, Madonnas, outsized apples, mice, men in bright suits: the kind of sculptural creatures created by Fritsch do indeed appear "fanciful and dramatic" and "unrelated" to their contexts. Planning cock-up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth 2013-05-01T15:18:00Z His art-making reflected it, expanding from paintings of imaginary planets to his latest works of fanciful found-object sculptures that imagine what the inhabitants on said planets might look like. Possessed: Thierry Despont Collects Moon Memorabilia 2011-10-21T21:40:44Z Generally class begins with the teacher standing in the center of a studio directing a group through fanciful instructions that urge the torso, the arms, the shoulders and the back into circular shapes. Twisting Body And Mind 2011-08-12T15:28:19Z The magic works here in reverse, finding the plausibility in an implausible scenario instead of teasing the fanciful out from the real; Waititi and Chaplin’s idealism has been replaced with a deep cynicism. From Charlie Chaplin to Jojo Rabbit: an unlikely history of Nazi comedies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Walking around the market, appearing preternaturally cool in a ruffled and pleated skirt and blouse and flat Chanel gardenia sandals, she blended in easily with shoppers looking for vintage clutches or fanciful cake-pops. Up Close: An MTV Star?s Side Gig at the Hester Street Fair 2010-07-07T21:19:00Z To those who found that idea fanciful I would put the question: when were you last mugged on the Underground by someone carrying Middlemarch in his pocket? Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z “Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship,” a fanciful, literate, unsentimental and yet deeply felt memoir, is her answer. Review | In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z One, an explanation of how the Met’s chandeliers acquired their fanciful design, was playful, but most of the others were serious. The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Before falling into decay, this gentrifying neighborhood in Asia was once home to fanciful colonial mansions. In Transit Blog: Guess Where This Is? 2011-12-15T16:53:36Z 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. No License Plates Here: Using Art to Transcend Prison Walls 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In France, Wiktor embraces a caricature of bohemian life, living in a garret that is only somewhat less fanciful than the one that Gene Kelly inhabits in “An American in Paris.” ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But Samet is maybe too insistent that the truth of the Civil War has been irrevocably lost to fanciful delusion. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z “Songs From the Movie,” a fanciful record that reimagined some of her past works in rich orchestral arrangements, was released last year. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Now for something completely different: design concepts that are fanciful and sometimes half in jest, with little chance, in most cases, of ever being realized. 2010-02-11T17:50:00Z Ms. Neithardt has a cameo in the movie as Ms. Swank’s teacher, as do her own fanciful shoes, which Mr. LaGravenese asked her to make for the film. 2010-02-04T03:03:00Z Newsmax anchors read lengthy statements on air, and the website printed the clarification statement in full — denying its previous fanciful claims about George Soros or Nancy Pelosi exerting control over the firms. Chris Ruddy and Newsmax went all-in on Trump. Now they might pay a price for it. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Unlike Klinger’s admirable “New Annotated Sherlock Holmes,” there isn’t any body of commentary attached to the works here nor do they invite fanciful speculation. Review | Stilted dialogue, a ludicrous plot: On the pleasures of the vintage whodunit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Other artifacts include the shiny carapace of Alexander McQueen’s 2004 “Bell Dress” and several of the fanciful folk- inspired costumes from “Wanderlust.” Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z But one of the show’s more fanciful elements, the access that the women have to Scarlet’s fashion closet, is absolutely based on fact. With ‘Younger’ and ‘The Bold Type’ Ending, Will TV Turn the Page? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The horse and rider are dragged up in colourful tat and are meant to represent a fanciful Sikandar, otherwise known as Alexander the Great. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z You can see one sort of possibility — Marquis and Marioni’s fanciful collaborative teapot goblets, for instance — triggering another sort of possibility in Mount’s towering “Scent Bottles.” Aussie-U.S. glass-art ties made clear at Museum of Glass 2013-07-31T22:35:09Z Real acts of revenge, such as the fanciful chastisements sometimes inflicted on cheating spouses, are treated as comical aberrations. I spit on your grave, but that's about it 2011-01-24T13:50:06Z So says Woody Drift, her fanciful seafaring father, whose vivid imagination outstrips his organisational abilities. Cinderella – review 2012-12-09T00:06:07Z “Maniacal Noxious Orange: trending color in spray-on tans,” by 155-time Loser Bird Waring, was certainly fanciful, but a tad alphabetically challenged. Style Invitational Week 1183: C’mon, be honest with us 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Those connections, especially to Cervantes, are fanciful, but one can never be quite sure. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Her rather fanciful autobiography, inevitably titled The Million Dollar Mermaid, appeared in 1999. Esther Williams dies aged 91: swimmer who starred in MGM musicals 2013-06-06T22:14:09Z The writers take fanciful liberties with Conan Doyle’s work, mixing together strands from different stories and often concocting whole new tangents. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z An earlier, more fanciful outdoor piece, Mr. Schultz’s petal table, was inspired by Queen Anne’s lace, with its flower-like top sprouting from an elegant pedestal base. Richard Schultz, Designer Who Made the Outdoors Modern, Dies at 95 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s not the French Riviera, but this string of fanciful faux beaches — with potted palm trees, hammocks, and lounge chairs — makes a fun relaxation zone. Finding urban getaways in Europe’s top cities 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Taking his dog for a stroll in “the almost-night,” the boy beholds his community with a child’s fanciful perspective. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z These insects are the colorfully clad human performers in Cirque du Soleil’s “Ovo,” a show that takes you inside a fanciful bug universe for a mixture of mild comedy and impressive aerial and acrobatic stunts. | 'Ovo': Circque du Soleil?s ?Ovo? on Randalls Island 2010-04-22T21:47:00Z Several of the subjects are masked, as if the fanciful getups are guises for everyday people with extraordinary imaginations. Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’ Instead he faces — but does not seem terribly concerned by — two more fanciful problems. Review | This political thriller imagines the unimaginable: a silent Trump 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Even the statistician, who helped devise the protocol in a post-9/11 report on potential airplane-related disasters, never imagined it would be activated, and thus packed it with fanciful science-fiction flourishes. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z A juvenile, fanciful version of a normal adult situation, the incident reflects the general tone and theme of the movie — the divide between childhood and adulthood and what maturity looks like. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The producers have taken a lot of cues from the original series; there're a lot of bright colors, fanciful angles and stylish editing tricks. Everybody is having a blast in the "Cowboy Bebop" trailer 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z While other designers tend to plump for the fanciful or the utilitarian, Mr. Krakoff fused elements of a luxury wardrobe with his penchant for minimalism. Fashion Review: Reed Krakoff: Fusing Luxury and Minimalism 2014-02-16T12:09:42Z The designer used a rose-pattern fabric for the walls and curtains, and the effect is like a fanciful paradise on an enchanted island—which, in many ways, it is. David Easton Restores a Palm Beach Landmark to its Former Glory 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z With two days left of his summer holidays, imaginative Jeremiah Hazelnut dreams of magical powers and fanciful adventures, while exploring the strange woods near his home. The Night of the Rabbit – review 2013-07-06T23:05:43Z Does he return to Inishmaan or is this a fanciful notion? In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Its revelations were significant and surprising, but not so fanciful, at least to its immediate audience, as to raise suspicion. History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z Today’s cartography is more accurate than the fanciful renderings of the Red Planet made before modern telescopes. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Your imagery can be fanciful, but there are also elements of the sinister and grotesque. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The other, more linear, resembles a bit of ancient ironwork, a butterfly or a fanciful account of the body’s internal organs. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z For this meandering tale of unworldly Canadians on vacation in Paris, which opened on Thursday night at the Kitchen, a marvelous, fanciful set has been devised by Rae Powell. Review: In Sheila Heti’s New Play, Canadians Lose Themselves in Paris 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z As a hobby he produced a fanciful menagerie of intricate paperboard and balsa wood sculptures of animals. Irving Harper, Creator of the Marshmallow Sofa, Dies at 99 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “Unlock’d,” a Prospect Theater Company production at the Duke on 42nd Street, takes a tuneful look at a fanciful place where hair enjoys a glorified status and sometimes even talks. Theater Review: In ‘Unlock’d,’ a Land of Dueling Hairdos 2013-06-28T02:01:00Z Anthony Hopkins goes loco over Psycho, in a fanciful "making of" drama. This week's new films 2013-02-02T06:00:09Z This selection includes fanciful beasts such as a mermaid and a centaur. In the galleries: Medicine chests as a medium for reflection 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr French says that in 2011 China’s parliament debated a proposal, admittedly fanciful, to deploy as many as 100m people in Africa. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In Anton Dudley’s fanciful and leaden “City Of,” four Americans find themselves in Paris, stumbling upon vermin, absinthe, Paul Verlaine and Pierre, the mournful chunk of statuary. ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z She was injected with morphine, which made her delirious and fanciful. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z “Aerocene” may seem fanciful, but its potential was enough to interest European ministers, who invited Mr. Saraceno to present it at a European Commission mobility and transport conference in Slovenia in April. With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The fanciful creatures here underscore the movie’s problems. ‘Pinocchio’ Review: An Enchanting Yet Befuddling Adaptation 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Most ostentatious is the women’s designer section, which is thick with fanciful and often astonishingly expensive clothes, from Marni to Monse. Barneys Is Gone. Where Should You Shop Next? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z I do see this book as a departure—it is more political, less flamboyant, more dialogue-driven, less fanciful. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Virtues of Parental Relativism 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Horror cinema works under the principle that even in the most fanciful of stories, the trace amounts of the real will excel as the most frightening component. From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z 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. How to Eat Dinner Like the Last Citizens of Pompeii 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Where Kircher lacked hard facts, as with his highly fanciful “translations” of hieroglyphics, he simply made them up. Books of The Times: ‘A Man of Misconceptions’ by John Glassie 2012-12-30T21:22:10Z Jones’s fanciful images conjure a world rich in suggestion, association and decorative invention. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z She uses not so much paints and brushes, but a sewing machine and crochet hook, weaving and twisting bits of fabric and yarn into magical forests, mythical creatures, fanciful garments, darkly disturbing images. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z Most of the costumes are not so much bizarre as just fabulous, in what is at times a Victorian sort of way—that is, busy, crowded, fanciful. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Chandler is a realist who often works on a large scale, whether painting naturalistic scenes or fanciful ones. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The new suite began with Michael Gandolfi’s homage “Mirrors and Sidesteps,” intriguingly murky and fanciful music with modern harmonic twists, fractured phrases and hints of “Davidsbündlertänze.” Review: David Kaplan Riffs on Schumann’s Spirit 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Leads to Joy and Jabs on New Album 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z It's a great, operatic scene, no matter that it's wildly fanciful – this is Nicholas Ray, and no LA beach was a dumping ground for wrecked cars. Corey Allen: Buzz's second sad send-off 2010-07-01T16:57:00Z Hours before the parade started, several hundred people gathered to don fanciful costumes and makeup, including a skeleton cupid on rollerblades, a marching band wearing skeleton face paint, and women in traditional Mexican dresses. In burgeoning Day of the Dead parade, Mexico remembers earthquake casualties 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z The costumes, also by Mr. Désiré, show Christian soldiers in ragtag uniforms of leather and burlap and Muslim soldiers in long black suit jackets over fanciful skirts patched together from Persian rugs. Music Review: Francisco Negrin Directs ?Rinaldo? for Lyric Opera of Chicago 2012-03-01T23:12:14Z It's a story that's been eagerly devoured since first appearing in print as a magazine serial in the 1880s, under Stevenson's fanciful pseudonym, Captain George North. 'Silver': courage and terror in the sequel to Treasure Island 2012-08-01T20:01:03Z As the Salvation Army’s sidewalk Santas begin ringing their bells, even the most jaded New Yorker sometimes pauses to gaze into the fanciful shop window displays on Fifth Avenue. The Season’s Fashion Books From Cindy Crawford, Terry Richardson and More 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z After eight seasons of this zany, ridiculously fanciful peekaboo at Hollywood from the inside out, "Entourage" finally came to an end last weekend. What our writers love this week 2011-09-14T22:01:04Z Brought to life by the Puppet Kitchen, these fanciful characters will take the stage in an hourlong adaptation conceived by Jonathan Rockefeller. 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