When I think of works of fiction set in Paris, I immediately enter a mindset that is ruled by excessive imagination and visually concrete detail; I am reminded of Muriel Barbery's "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéryrince".
Valiantly maintaining his sense of superiority, Mr. Kidney chafes under the conversational gambits of the obliviously chatty Mr. Sculley, who scours his medical books for "cases of deformities caused by the excessive imagination of the mother" and wonders if Arthur might be something called a sooterkin, a goblinlike animal "born in centuries past to several women in Holland".
While Gatsby's famous bashes are even more excessive in Luhrmann's imagination than in the novel, with fireworks choreographed to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," the director said he labored to keep the story intimate and immersive.
In a special Imagist issue of The Egoist magazine in May 1915, the poet and critic Harold Monro called H.D.'s early work "petty poetry", denoting "either poverty of imagination or needlessly excessive restraint".
The N.B.A. rule book defines a second-degree flagrant foul as "unnecessary and excessive contact," and leaves the painful details to the imagination.
While they may think they're being clever, the excessive use of "nationalization" reveals a severe lack of political imagination, not to mention a hazy understanding of American history.
He took my excessive interest in this one game as proof of a certain lack of imagination, I'm pretty sure.
Even in an age of TV where scenes of extreme violence are routine, it felt excessive, almost Gaspar Noe-ish in its unwillingness to leave anything to the imagination.
His critique is increasingly echoed today by parents, educators and children's advocates who warn that organized activities, overscheduling and excessive amounts of homework are crowding out free time and constricting children's imaginations and social skills.
I wouldn't say it was lack of imagination – if anything, roaming around moors and waterways solo can lead to an excessive amount of making things up, a bizarreness of mind.
Finally in the new Kong series, Ford has abandoned his predilection for the pre-photographic era with excessive detailing and marginalia borrowed from esoteric manuscripts, and courageously leaped into the early 20th century cinematic imagination.
