| 单词 | Baron Munchausen |
| 例句 | The same year, Michael took a bit part in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen so as to care for his gifted protégé. Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies 2012-09-05T18:21:19Z Films guilty of such misdirection include “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” and “Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.” Up and Away: ‘The Aeronauts’ and Hot-Air Balloons in the Movies 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Sharp’s aesthetic is humble—more kitchen-sink than Baron Munchausen—with elements of the fantastic. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z By 17, she had booked her first four film roles, including a clamshell-born Venus in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” and the convent girl Cécile in “Dangerous Liaisons.” Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Bonnacon reminded me of a childhood favourite – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Clip joint: great movie jackets 2012-11-28T16:36:22Z Ken Russell's 1975 screen version of the rock opera "Tommy" screens Thursday at 8 p.m. only, and the Films4Families weekend screenings of "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" continue Saturday and Sunday at noon. Shower of sci-fi shorts at Cinerama; Rider Strong here for 'Cabin Fever' 2012-02-02T21:10:06Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Along with the films that bookend it in Terry Gilliam's CV – Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – forms a loose trilogy concerned with dreamers. Brazil: No 17 2010-10-21T10:38:00Z In his most successful movies — “Brazil,” “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” “The Fisher King,” “Twelve Monkeys,” — imagination is a mighty force and a fragile vessel. Review: ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Brings Him Back to Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z As with all film-makers he had innumerable unrealised projects, in his case Baron Munchausen and Dante's Inferno, both inspired by Doré's illustrations. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z In the costume, the costume parade, as it were, was a dance number when they were doing the nominees, and I was Baron Munchausen in the Baron Munchausen piece. Taraji P. Henson in "What Men Want": Don't call it a remake of a Mel Gibson movie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z She first appeared in Disney film "One Magic Christmas" and quickly moved on to more prominent roles in films like "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and the television series "Road to Avonlea." Sarah Polley puts a "Splice" in Hollywood career 2010-06-01T22:18:00Z He’s always loved imaginative fantasies—“Time Bandits,”“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” the “freewheeling whimsy” of Monty Python and “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z To this day, Polley told me her emotions surrounding “Baron Munchausen” are not easily categorized. Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z My time on “Baron Munchausen,” and a whole host of other sets, was a good instruction manual — if you do the opposite, then you’re probably safe. Sexism on set made Sarah Polley 'squirm.' So she rewrote the rules 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z A bogus Baron Munchausen and his sidekick go from Africa to Broadway to a women’s college. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, April 26, 2020 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z That’s why some historians now wonder if it really happened or if it’s a tall tale that would make Baron Munchausen laugh with sheer delight. Review | Searching for the man behind the legend of Charlemagne 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Bounce forward 500 years, and the actress Uma Thurman poses nude, a towering hourglass, in the same oyster shell in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.” Who Decides What’s ‘Sexy’ — And Who Pays for It? 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z There have been one or two financial disasters along the way, but he astonished audiences with fantasies such as Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Monty Python Has the Last Laugh With Farewell Reunion Among the hundreds of names which one reads in passing,—I hardly know why, for they certainly convey but small interest to the mind,—we met with that of the Baron Munchausen. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Many of the accounts of Eton which periodically find their way into print seem inspirations from Baron Munchausen. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Let us then leave Pegasus to enjoy his drink of barley wine, though like Baron Munchausen's famous steed, he hath not the wherewithal to stow away his beer. Buzz a Buzz or The Bees 2012-02-18T03:00:15.753Z A great number of German Protestants from the Palatinate attended the Baron Munchausen, Chief Secretary for Hanover, with a petition soliciting a passage to Nova Scotia. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z They may put the lesson story in the same category as Baron Munchausen or "The Ancient Mariner," and such a teacher would be none the wiser. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Some interest attaches to Raspe, in that he was not only the author of "Baron Munchausen," but was also the villain in Scott's "Antiquary." De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z He loves tragedies, and fires, and thrills and ought to have been a novelist like the Baron Munchausen. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z In common with a large number of other great men in history Baron Munchausen has suffered because he is not understood. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder Why don't you do like Baron Munchausen on the mountain? Molly Brown's Sophomore Days He seems to have been as great a traveller as Marco Polo or Baron Munchausen, and, like them, he must have seen many strange sights and countries. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 "That would have spoiled it," said Miss Muffet to Baron Munchausen, who was standing by. Miss Muffet's Christmas Party As my friend the Librarian observed, the difference between George Moore and Baron Munchausen is that Moore’s lies are interesting. The So-called Human Race If these stories which follow shall serve to rehabilitate Baron Munchausen as a lover and practitioner of the arts of Truth, I shall not have made the sacrifice of my time in vain. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder For his aunt possessed, as well as the Holy Scriptures, a copy of Baron Munchausen's Travels and a Pilgrim's Progress. When Ghost Meets Ghost Their tongues, like Baron Munchausen's horn, seemed to run with an accumulated rapidity from the long embargo laid upon them. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) Now this is a very strange, a very startling story; it seems more like a chapter from the "Arabian Nights" or the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" than from the sacred Scriptures of any Religion. Bible Romances First Series Whether in the Bible, the Koran, the Arabian Nights, Monte Christo, or Baron Munchausen, a tremendous "walker" is the fit subject of a good laugh. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Any army is prepared for war whose commander-in-chief numbers Baron Munchausen among his advisers. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder Since we've landed here I've heard stories that would make poor old Baron Munchausen hide his head in shame as a has-been. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields It is as absurd to refute her assertions as to reply to Baron Munchausen or to insist that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland never happened. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V One of these, Cabaca de Vaca, a man of glowing imagination, and who held the pen of a ready writer, wrote a Baron Munchausen account of the expedition. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots Nor need we more than mention "the surprising adventures of the renowned Baron Munchausen." Moon Lore “Did you ever own a dog, Baron Munchausen?” asked the reporter of the Gehenna Gazette, calling to interview the eminent nobleman during Dog Show Week in Cimmeria. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder He also illustrated the adventures of "Master Tyll Owlglass," an edition of "Baron Munchausen," "Picture Fables," "The Careless Chicken," "Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches," "Laugh and Grow Thin," and a host of other volumes. Children's Books and Their Illustrators The same remark may be made upon the gipsy heroine’s sly allusion in ‘Kriegspiel’ to “Squire Lucas,” the Romany equivalent of Baron Munchausen, an allusion which none but a Romany student would understand. Old Familiar Faces Many of the capital extravagances contained in 'Baron Munchausen' are borrowed literally from the old Latin jest-books. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy “You are worse than Baron Munchausen, who told a story something like that; only his was the more reasonable of the two.” The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Who else but Baron Munchausen of the Bodenwerder National Guard, ex-friend of Napoleon of France, intimate of the Mikado of Japan, and famed the world over as the deadliest shot in two hemispheres.’ Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder From the delightful nonsense of Alice in Wonderland and the "travelers' tales" of Baron Munchausen to the profound seriousness of The King of the Golden River and Why the Chimes Rang is a far cry. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes “Fishing for lobsters with moto-naphtha in a cemetery at Manzanares is a story Baron Munchausen would have thought twice about before telling.” The Car of Destiny The Travels of Baron Munchausen were written to ridicule Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, whose adventures were at the time deemed fictitious. Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. At breakfast I found him studying the marvellous and eventful history of Baron Munchausen; a work whose periods are equally free from the long-winded obscurity of Tacitus, and the asthmatic terseness of Sallust. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency And he seems to hold the relative rank in oral narration which our written literature awards to Baron Munchausen, Jack Falstaff, and Captain Lemuel Gulliver. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Baron Munchausen would have found no mean rival in him at the former; and, were duels fought with eighteen pounders, Lord Camelford would have been remarkably polite in the company of our master of projectiles. Rattlin the Reefer “Well,” observed I, “I have read something like that in Baron Munchausen.” Peter Simple The French Baron Munchausen is represented by M. de Crac, the hero of a French operetta. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Walter J. Watts will find much of the literary history of the Travels of Baron Munchausen, which were written in ridicule of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, in our 3rd Vol., pp. Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. But he lied largely, picturesquely, like Baron Munchausen. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends One who can believe that would swallow Baron Munchausen without blinking. Stand By The Union I confess it has the air of one of Baron Munchausen's yarns, and I am somewhat doubtful about it. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match Cyrano de Bergerac or Baron Munchausen, or other typical men of science, had treated the moon as a mere flat silver mirror in which Man saw his own image—the Man in the Moon. The Victorian Age in Literature He wondered if his hearers were acquainted with the travels of Baron Munchausen, but decided to try the experiment. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life It was a little like Hans Andersen, he decided, and a little like the Reminiscences of an Irish R.M., and perhaps just a little like some of the more probable adventures of Baron Munchausen. When William Came This is rather like describing the travels of Baron Munchausen as "unconvincing." Varied Types He regarded them much as he would regard the wonderful adventures of Baron Munchausen. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Rumors of every description were rife, and the many weird and impossible tales invented by the ship's cook and the captain's steward—the men-o'-war oracles—would have put even Baron Munchausen to the blush. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" It is false, as some say, that Bruce was cousin-german to Baron Munchausen; but true, as Bruce said, that the Abysinnians cut live steaks from their cattle. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I There is nothing in "Waterton's Wanderings," or in the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" more startling than this "Waltz with a Hippopotamus!" International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 An interpretation altogether wrong, as the epithet here applied to 'flaws' might alone determine; 'congealed gusts of wind' being nowhere mentioned among the phenomena of nature except in Baron Munchausen's Travels. Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 Here he won for himself a certain place in English literature by the publication in 1785 of Baron Munchausen's Narrative. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature "Well," observed I, "I have read something like that in Baron Munchausen." Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 "My friend," he remarked, "Baron Munchausen never had anything on you!" The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest I did not at all believe the asseverations of this man; he related all his adventures with such a Baron Munchausen air, assumed probably to excite admiration. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy This is rather like describing the travels of Baron Munchausen as 'unconvincing.' Twelve Types Full many a feat Did Hercules neat, The least our credit draws on; Jesting Momus, so sly, Said, "'Tis all my eye," And he call'd him Baron Munchausen. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Collected in a book called The Travels of Baron Munchausen is a series of the most extravagant stories imaginable. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Baron Munchausen might have tied his horse there without inventing any lie about it. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 You know Baron Munchausen came from over the Rhine, so they come rightly by their talent in that line. Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy And Father Laughter first introduces the Baron Munchausen, who will tell some of his marvelous experiences. The Elson Readers, Book 5 M. le Baron Munchausen took it in very good part. Prue and I "That the writer who hereafter relates the true stories of this war, will be set down as a Baron Munchausen." Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee What a wonderful escape: the adventures of Baron Munchausen are nothing to it. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) That the spirit of Baron Munchausen still lives in German East Africa is attested to by Intelligence reports. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign If they would only think of Baron Munchausen, they would flee from this temptation. The Elson Readers, Book 5 Gentlemen," said M. le Baron Munchausen, "I have no fear. Prue and I Captain Truck had a very tolerable notion of Baron Munchausen and of his particular merits; but Chateaubriant was a writer of whom he knew nothing. Home as Found Indeed, it is all but sure that Baron Munchausen came back from his travels in the Spring. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come We laugh at Baron Munchausen turned into a cannon-ball and travelling through space. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Compare Gulliver's adventures with those of Baron Munchausen. The Elson Readers, Book 5 "Many thanks," said the officer,—and handed me his card, upon which I read, Le Baron Munchausen. Prue and I The good people of Santa Cruz tell some stories of the wonderful extent of space to be seen from the summit of it, that would not disgrace the memoirs of the ever-memorable Baron Munchausen. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay In previous volumes I have confined my attention to my memoirs as Baron Munchausen—but, dear reader, there are others. The Enchanted Typewriter Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of egregious travellers have been such, that they demanded a very Gulliver to surpass them. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen After this I had better be silent, for you will think me a Baron Munchausen amongst naturalists. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 "What hole is that?" asked M. le Baron Munchausen, a little contemptuously. Prue and I “Stewed icicles are pretty good, though,” said Baron Munchausen, with an ecstatic smack of his lips. A House-Boat on the Styx Previous to my existence as Baron Munchausen I lived for a term of years on earth as William Shakespeare, and what I have to say now is more in the line of confession than otherwise. The Enchanted Typewriter If Baron de Tott dauntlessly discharged an enormous piece of artillery, the Baron Munchausen has done more; he has taken it and swam with it across the sea. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Now the picture-book was a coloured edition of Baron Munchausen's adventures; the boy who gave good advice had seen it and hankered for it. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches It suggests also, that Baron Munchausen, like the Wandering Jew Ahasuerus, has never died. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography There was a laugh at this, in which all but Baron Munchausen joined. A House-Boat on the Styx In my next incarnation I was the man I am now known to be, Baron Munchausen. The Enchanted Typewriter In this way, then, came to be written the first delightful chapters of Baron Munchausen's "Narrative of his Travels and Campaigns in Russia." The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen By most of Bacon's contemporaries, and by some people of our time, this remarkable passage would, we doubt not, be considered as an ingenious rodomontade, a counterpart to the adventures of Sinbad or Baron Munchausen. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 This Medium was the celebrated Baron Munchausen, who relates the experience in the opening of the second chapter of the incidents in HIS life. All the Year Round: Contributions Baron Munchausen rose up and left the room. A House-Boat on the Styx "He printed an article alleged to have been written by Baron Munchausen, in which those four gentlemen were held up to ridicule and libelled grossly." The Enchanted Typewriter “You’ll soon see,” said Tom; and away he went, as bold as Baron Munchausen, and shot down the rushing cataract like a salmon at Ballisodare. The Water-Babies |
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