That I am a stranger, an interloper, who does not belong in this amazing, fantastical world. |
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Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction. |
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They depict precise illogical diagrams from a fantastical pop rivet instruction manual. |
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Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown. |
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However, the plot itself seemed thin, with much of it involving fantastical stories told by the main characters to an unbelieving lawyer. |
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This is the William Morris school of socialism, generally derided as being soft-headed, old-fashioned and fantastical. |
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It engages in a fantastical speculation about what the future might hold, as any good science fiction does. |
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The pistol of the gun was spiraled and gold, resembling the fantastical unicorn's horn. |
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She reveals herself to be a catchy and fantastical songwriter, who's actually a great keyboardist as well. |
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But many toy makers are also worried that some playthings that once seemed fantastical now seem all too real. |
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It can sound fantastical and wifty and achingly naïve, informed by the last inklings of childhood. |
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Effortless hooks and fantastical storytelling gave way to chugging riffs and darker lyrics. |
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Our presupposition is pretty fantastical in comparison to the one held by the general population. |
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Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful, and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. |
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As fantastical neon signs and lanterns extended the hours of daylight, I was seized by a desperate need to recapture my lost youth. |
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The film's pseudo-values might be false, but the sincerity of the director's faith in their fantastical power effectively dynamises them. |
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By the late 16th century, most fashionable patrons favoured fantastical Mannerist pieces for their displays. |
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Marlowe's poem is like the fantastical and varied grotesques that decorate the borders of a painting composed according to more classical rules of art. |
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But all the clips make the stories look fantastical, unreal. |
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It's that despite all of this, she knows how to throw out a genuinely good electronic album that is more fun than fantastical, more brain than brawn. |
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For the first time in human history, the most extraordinary and fantastical part of our lives had been subject to experimental observation. |
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At the beginning of the 70s, he played around at producing telenovelas that were the reflection of his aesthetic and fantastical universe. |
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The historical and fantastical settings allowed for greater leeway in presenting stories. |
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Moving away from allegory and portentousness and into more lyrical and fantastical realms, Messer at the same time sticks closer to home for subject matter. |
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What follows is a fantastical evening of juggling, conjuring and tuna fish. |
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Has Maiden's overblown, fantastical imagery been a product of this Harris approach? |
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But they represent much more: something fantastical that was born in the middle of the city. |
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Today, the flow of trade between us is a fantastical EUR 1 billion per day. |
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The color disk included in the package is a computer graphic image for enjoying the fantastical view of the stars. |
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It's a city where the people have fantastical imaginations, so the project was drawn up with quite a bit of fantasy. |
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The four parts of the cycle have, over the past two years, been previewed to Scottish audiences and praised for their mix of the fantastical and the contemporary. |
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He speaks and reads Chinese and Tibetan and knows more about the fantastical, complex history of the various forms of Himalayan Buddhism than anyone I've ever met. |
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These are guarded by massive metallic humanoids, who hold many weapons in their eight limbs, some identifiable as swords and axes and others too fantastical to guess at. |
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As in every culture, where all other Indians in the story are proud and honourable, Emiliano happens to be a horror of almost fantastical proportions. |
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A large, round ceramic dish with a picture of a harpy, a fantastical animal with the body of the bird and a human head. |
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The figure dominating the centre of the dish is a harpy, a fantastical animal with the body of a bird and a human head. |
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In this spectacular climax, part oneiric and fantastical, the house on fire becomes, in its pyrotechnical wizardry, a final recalcitrant figure to Australian suburban space. |
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Who wouldn't want to set a pack of fantastical, fire-breathing, firework dragons on Dolores Umbridge? |
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The best science fiction is the science fiction that uses fantastical or futuristic elements to tell stories that relate to timeless experiences, problems and quandaries. |
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An artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time. |
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The final act, back in the States, is even more fantastical, with an added twist, befitting such a corkscrew plot, which doesn't make a blind bit of sense. |
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At the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait. |
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Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop. |
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A massive giraffe overlooks the fantastical cluster of disparately shaped and designed buildings. |
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It would be disingenuous to call The Family Fang straightforward, but the novel isn't fantastical, non-literal, fabulistic, etc., as many of your short stories have been. |
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The villains are the fantastical obstacles that represent real life challenges. |
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Inside, the soaring caves and intricate carvings nod to a fantastical Alice and Wonderland underworld. |
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Instead he fastidiously organizes and fleshes out the fantastical worlds of his own making. |
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But the notion that someone of my background growing up today would refer to themselves as black is, frankly, fantastical. |
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We remember him talking at the dining table, heaping his plate with shavings from a tiny carving, a fantastical animal or human figure or an intricately precise puzzle. |
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The dream world is supposed to house escape, and yet the troubles and torments of the real world constantly find there way into the fantastical mix. |
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In Bayadere, the physical effort rather than the evocation of a fantastical image dominated, so that the entrance of the Shades felt more militaristic than shadowy. |
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The diverse cast of 71 international artists transports the audience into a fantastical and suspenseful world, blurring the boundaries between the real and imaginary. |
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Rogue, despite its fantastical premise, seemed to reify them. |
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The German ubu, as well as the French bibou, is also used for bug-a-boo, hobgoblin, or any other fantastical, terrific nocturnal object. |
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The conceit of adapting a fairy tale to reflect on racial history promises much, but Oyeyemi's attraction to the fantastical yields prose that becomes chattery and undisciplined. |
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In fact, the medieval mousetrap, when it appears at all, in painting and archives, is a singular, almost fantastical and overelaborate device, like the death machine employed by the villain in a Bond film. |
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Die Zauberflöte also contributed to Romanticism's self-fashioning, from the combination it offers of the fantastical, diabolical, ethical, metaphysical, and of elements taken from the Bildungsroman. |
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We know that at this time Bellefleur was a regular visitor to the studio of Alfred Pellan, recently returned from France, and he was particularly enthralled by the fantastical quality of Pellan's work. |
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These balloons have been set loose as mischief-makers, lightening the threat of sculptural severity, giving a lightsome, fantastical air to what might otherwise have been gravely pinioned. |
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Despite his frail health, he managed to create an impressive body of work-eighteen plays in all-that interweave poetic and fantastical elements to depict his love-hate relationship with Austria. |
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Somehow Kent also found time to write a fantastical novel featuring a protagonist by the name of Jacky Bonaventure who is employed by a mysterious multi-national record label to track down a missing rock star. |
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It tends to be a reflection of the times: so we've had the fantastical block and bonk busters, we've had singledom-lit and mum-lit all of which publishers seem to think have had their day. |
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Fersen serves up his usual mix of fantastical imaginings and quirky songwriting on Trois petits tours, accompanying his lyrical bric-à-brac with ukulele and steel pedal effects. |
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An ode to the respect given to the elder brother, this tale reveals every facet of the Korean soul, from laughter to tears, from farce to elegy, from the trivial to the fantastical, from high to folk art. |
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The third part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels describes the floating island of Laputa where fantastical science experiments take place, but they in fact parody the real world of ideas. |
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There is something fantastical about what happens in this place, unfortunately not in the sense that the deliberations here are fantastic but, rather, that often they appear based in fantasy. |
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In the tradition, he keeps surprising the audience with his fantastical imagination, a trait maybe echoed today in the music of some official genius such as John Zorn. |
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The peculiar figures and curious masks found in the fantastical environments depicted by Jon Pylypchuk will lead participants to create strange figures of their own. |
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The bold shapes, bright colours and fantastical creatures seen in her iconic drawings, prints and sculptures reflect her unique vision and special relationship to the land. |
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For the first time you can soon experience Alice's fantastical adventure inspired by the highly anticipated Disney Alice in Wonderland film from the mind of Tim Burton. |
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The modern legend that follows below is synthesised from early and late hagiographical sources, omitting the more fantastical episodes. |
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More fantastical theories, including the possibility of pirates mistaking the boat for Byron's, also circulated. |
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Away then with all the false positions and misconclusions, all the fantastical or wicked thoughts of the world. |
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India has a long tradition of fantastical stories and characters, dating back to Vedic mythology. |
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The legend of Saint Brendan, an Irish monk, involves a fantastical journey into the Atlantic Ocean in search of Paradise in the 6th century. |
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The earliest, though, is the Voyage of Saint Brendan, the fantastical account of an Irish monk who made a sea voyage in the early 6th century. |
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The show revels in the fantastical, imaginative use of whizzbang technology in a competitive, funny and spectacular environment. |
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He went to town on his lavish home, creating a fantastical structure with tall castellations and powerful Gothic influences. |
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The fantasy elements within the game might irritate some die-hard fantasy fans because they gently spoof some of the basics of traditional fantastical fare. |
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A literal sweatshop, this jerry-built structure is at once concrete, fantastical, and metaphorical, its ricketiness no contradiction of the grinding realities it indexes. |
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The Indika itself contained numerous fantastical stories of people with backwards feet, ears large enough to sleep in, no mouths, or other strange features. |
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On the one hand, Fawzi indulges his story with fantastical, Felliniesque quips most evident in the posse of ghosts that never leave Youssef's side. |
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Besides he was so fantastical and unruly in his appetites, that he used no common meats at his meals, but was fed with the combs of cocks, the tongues of peahens. |
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The Gesta includes other fantastical tales about Hereward's prowess, including disguising himself as a potter to spy on the king and escaping from captivity. |
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