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Either they're a fanciful adaptation of a fairy tale, or if not, they are visually exciting.
Marc Connelly co-directed and penned this adaptation of his play, based on Roark Bradford's stories of "Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun'", about Louisiana Sunday School youngsters imagining a fanciful Heaven of fish fryin', choir singin', and the Lord God Jehovah performing miracles--including the creation of Earth to drain off all the fermentation!
"The Scarlet Lady" is a film that steers the viewer into every territory, from fanciful comedy to some silly animation sequences to very serious drama.
On watching, I found the storyline of this production rather fanciful.
Since above-average height correlates with above-average income, and there is a clearly a genetic component to height, it is not fanciful to imagine couples choosing to have taller children.
It is an ambitious, if not entirely fanciful, goal.
Biden, while reaffirming that the US does not view China as an enemy, implied that Fu’s worries are not fanciful, saying that the worst scenario is a misunderstanding that leads to an unintended conflict.
Moreover, it is fanciful to think that a trade deficit – which is merely a reflection of saving and investment activity both inside and outside the country – can be suppressed with protectionist policies.
Capturing the most media attention has been Europe’s eroding credibility, with its paralyzed institutional response to the ongoing financial crisis making ever more fanciful the notion of a “G-3” world, in which the European Union could compete as a political and economic equal with the United States and China.
In Russia’s view – which is, probably, fanciful – such a shield could intercept its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), thereby posing a strategic threat.
Sanguine macroeconomic assumptions and fanciful theories about the effects of tax cuts underpinned rosy scenarios.
America’s president is not searching for excuses to start a war;Assad’s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext.
But a helicopter-money program – a fanciful idea when Milton Friedman proposed it in 1969 – would also be a radical departure for policymakers, requiring an abundance of caution about citizen and investor perception, confidence, and solid governance structures.
What is needed is level-headedness, rationality, and patient diplomacy that is not based on dangerous and fanciful threats of force.
The idea that a country can achieve a trade surplus by importing nothing is as fanciful as the idea that a government can repay its debt by starving itself of revenue.
Conventional wisdom suggests that Scottish independence is possible, albeit not very likely, while any country’s departure from the single currency is fanciful.
With progress like this, it is no longer fanciful to hope that never again will there be another Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, or Srebrenica.
This is not a fanciful vision, but a creative and eminently sensible reinvention of twenty-first century statehood.
But whatever their purpose, by raising fanciful hopes they thwart the possibility for real reform - something, incidentally, that the West ceaselessly demands from the Kremlin.
And if it is adopted by all EU member states – a fanciful scenario, given British resistance – the market will simply migrate to New York and Singapore.
The idea behind this fanciful thought was to symbolize the abandonment of a conceptual model that I saw hindering a more open, diverse, and inclusive Union.
Instead, they have been busy constructing a fanciful world of limitless possibility, based on a national mythology featuring Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, the British Raj, and standing “alone” in 1940.
With refugees – many of them young – continuing to pour into Europe from troubled parts of the Middle East and Africa, that may not be an altogether fanciful prospect.
In fact, the field repels all but connoisseurs of fanciful formal models.
He supported his braggadocio with fanciful animations imagining just how “invincible” his missiles might be.
Now that John Bolton is Trump’s national security adviser, neither scenario is as fanciful as it was just a few weeks ago.
As Vice President Dick Cheney put it in reference to North Korea – another member of that fanciful “axis” – Americans “don’t negotiate with evil; we defeat it.”
Good economic analysis can enable “constructive populists” to debate the “post-fact, fanciful populists” who seem to be on the rise, with a realistic alternative discourse – one that is transparent and based on credible expectations of economic policies and outcomes.
The idea that it would then seek new relationships with the likes of China and India is fanciful.
But while Trump must figure out how to climb down from his fanciful wall, so far he has ratcheted up his pettiness, removing Mattis two months ahead of schedule and tweeting insults to politicians who have criticized his recent blunders.
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