"It's getting invented on the fly here".
This wasn't exotic theory invented on the fly, it was basic IS-LM, the sort of thing every macroeconomist should know.
This film, which involves Cleveland's attempt to save a water nymph, or what Mr. Shyamalan distractingly calls a narf (Bryce Dallas Howard), has the baggy, meandering structure of a parental yarn invented on the fly.
The three male actors, their scripts and sheet music clutched tightly, had barely learned the melody of the first song when they were asked to absorb harmonies, blocking and dance steps, all of it being invented on the fly by the director, Lisa Peterson ("An Iliad"), and the music director, Lance Horne.
A few streets away, another word, "Dada," had been coined to describe the deliberate nonsense one group of spirited artists wanted to create, reading poems full of words that they invented on the fly, choreographing Dada dances, and spending much time, the way artists do, in a local café that they called the Cabaret Voltaire.
Many of the techniques found in Vietnam works, borrowed from avant-garde writers or invented on the fly, would become staples of mainstream literary fiction by the turn of the millennium: a fragmented approach to storytelling, a reluctance on the author's part to interpret characters or events, a tendency to see everything in the present tense as though the past and future no longer connected.
Facebook is trying to invent, on the fly, an entirely new way of organizing the Internet.
Voice over IP converts conversations to packets of bits that can be easily encrypted with secret keys invented on the fly.
As with many of the greatest DIY hacks, this treehouse was invented on the fly.
Invented on the fly at the Anchor Bar in 1964, Theresa Bellisimo needed to satisfy a hungry hoard of college kids with the chicken scraps she had on hand.
DANA GOODYEAR: Cameron is still in many ways a scrappy filmmaker, partly because he's inventing technology on the fly.
