| NOUN | a flight of fancy | flights of fancy | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In his video "Exit", he starts out in his knitting chair, than through stop motion he bounds out of it in a flight of fancy.
- When not driving Ivor or helping the engine with his latest flight of fancy, he enjoys fishing and day-dreaming.
- In a related flight of fancy, Tomkis's fraudulent astrologer produces a comparable instrument for extending the range of human hearing, which he calls the "otacousticon" – and which turns out to be an artificial pair of ass's ears.
- These claims are rejected by mainstream historians. Whitehead did not keep a log book or document his work. In 1980 aviation historian C.H. Gibbs-Smith called the story a "flight of fancy".
- The new sauce received a mixed reception online, with "Newsweek" saying that it "might seem as if Kranch is a flight of fancy from a drunken frat boy" but that some consumers were nevertheless interested.
- Swift's notion of inverted burial might seem the highest flight of fancy, but it appears that among English millenarians the idea that the world would be "turned upside down" at the Apocalypse enjoyed some currency.
- "Hoffmaniada" is neither biopic nor dramatization but a romantic flight of fancy based on motifs from Hoffmann's diaries and fiction.
- Recent film roles were O'Connor in "Villa of Roses" and Declan Murphy in "A Flight of Fancy".
- "The Ouzel Galley" does draw on earlier accounts of the ship, but it is as much a flight of fancy as it is an historical novel.
- "Rambling On" tells the story of a young man trying to emulate Batman by jumping off a roof, and was described by Reid as a "flight of fancy, just me rambling on".
- Designs included "Birds and Bees" for baby showers, "Born Lucky, Born Rich" for birthdays, and "Flight of Fancy" for weddings or Christmas.
- Calling to mind the best Blue Note-era recordings, "Terminal 1" is one flight of fancy not to be missed".
- Reporter Philip Hersh called her success "a flight of fancy".
- "Flight of Fancy" is a 2000 Puerto Rican film directed and co-written by Noel Quiñones.
- Zethrin did not have the technical expertise of Adrian Squire, and failed to ensure sufficient industry interest in what seemed a flight of fancy, in an era of austerity.
- X-Panda's debut album "Flight of Fancy" was released in September 2011 and it has been well received internationally by the critics in progressive music and metal genres.
- The Flight of Fancy butterfly house was constructed in 2007, as was a 300-seat amphitheatre with a 3,700 ft2 covered stage.
- Marsh concluded his review by saying that this film is "a tender, heartfelt treat about the end of childhood and the loss of innocence and a flight of fancy well worth taking".
- In addition to the songs featured in the film, two others were written for it. They were "Spring Fever" and "A Flight of Fancy"; they were used on the soundtrack as part of the background music.
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