Daily Telegraph Editorial, September 15 "[The manifesto] is all fantasy, of course, but it is clever fantasy, and not to be dismissed lightly by the other parties.
Mr. Harrison's clever fantasy teases out the reality of moving back to the past more completely, making a sneaky, compelling case for the seductions of living the Ozzie and Harriet life full time, as opposed to just dipping into it via the DVR.
The movie vents their frustrations with clever animated fantasy sequences.
I'll apologise in advance to all those of you who, when encountering others whanging on about this clever grownup fantasy, grow pencil-in-the-eye bored to a degree normally encountered when someone insists on telling you too much about their dreams, and those dreams feature either pre-stressed concrete or the best B-roads by which to avoid Winchester in the third week of August.
"Big Fish is a clever, smart fantasy that targets the child inside every adult," Berardinelli said, "without insulting the intelligence of either".
On a grey and windy town square - Hildegard Bechtler's design is brutalist concrete with a clever touch of fantasy turret - people move around, individually; they are never a crowd, and they rarely interact.
It was only with The Murdstone Trilogy (2014), his wickedly clever dig at fantasy novels and at the world of celebrity writers he both loved and was terrified by, that Mal was first published as an author for adults.
The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke, 1962, is a clever and gripping fantasy which centres on the set of toy soldiers belonging to the Bronte children which, when rediscovered by modern children, lead to an adventure which blurs contemporary life with the world of the Bronte children.
It's a brash sci-fi fantasy, clever and coarse, calculated and hectic, with the premise that sometime around 2018 girls everywhere find that they have the ability to emit lethal bolts of electricity – generated by a previously undetected length of flesh under the collarbone.
Novik's clever blending of fantasy and Horatio Hornblower manages to recreate the Napoleonic era -- but an era transmuted by the presence of talking dragons and all that might mean for warfare.
The book works, said Walker, because it's romance and it's well done, "but also because the author has been so clever in writing a fantasy about bondage, which is also liberating … The message is that the books are liberating for women.
