The laughs are here, as always, but what comes with them is the vivifying sense of a world seen with the anarchic clarity and creepy, hopeful imagination of a bright ten-year-old: ourselves at our first and worst.
I wish we saw more of this kind of thing – and I'm looking forward to seeing the history of Afghanistan tackled by some of our brightest minds and most vivid imaginations.
And once rusted, tagged-up buildings are now bright feasts of imagination.
She may have hovered between allegory and symbol, among other inhabitants of his imagination, bright seraphim with angel trumpets, gloomy Dis who ruled the underworld, wood and mountain nymphs, Pan, Apollo and Robin Goodfellow.
And so, like many a children's book heroine before her, Coraline sets out to explore her curious surroundings, interweaving the odd details of everyday reality with the bright threads of imagination.
"Not only did it allow [C1] to indulge this very clearly bright girl's imagination, how convenient for KM that in one way she [C1] would be deprived of that visual sense of being able to see what was being done to her," the crown prosecutor Nanette Williams said in her closing remarks on Thursday.
History may be generously lighted by the bright beams of the imagination, but the student of history is not primarily an artist.
Like a figure in a Chagall painting, the fugitive is dancing over rooftops, and at the end the music strides forward in what sounds like a defense of the power of human imagination, a bright, vibrant elegy for strings.
But now it occurs to me that he is also marked by a rare and attractive gift for noticing the several ways that, under the bright sun of the imagination, the kingdom of politics and the kingdom of literature sometimes merge.
We're skinny and bright, with a capacity for imagination that lends itself to paranoia and social anxiety.
