Sentence examples for extravagant fantasy from inspiring English sources

Ms. Farley, who created both the choreography and the costumes, used extravagant fantasy to depict natural processes in this amiable tribute to the autumn equinox.

Dennis Potter, best known for his teleplay The Singing Detective (1986), deployed a wide battery of the medium's resources, including extravagant fantasy and sequences that sarcastically counterpoint popular music with scenes of brutality, class-based callousness, and sexual rapacity.

Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro are all outstanding - perhaps especially Lau for whom this film is another major career advance - and their humanly convincing characters give the film's extravagant fantasy an arrowhead of emotional power.

Carlota willingly dies during an orgy on an island off the Genoese coast, a symbolic terrain where Tamare and his cronies have group sex in the caverns beneath the extravagant fantasy palaces that Aviano has constructed.

In such macabre moments, Wright hints at a promising fondness for fiendish, Roald Dahl-style humour, as well as a taste for Terry Gilliam's vivid and extravagant fantasy odysseys.

All manner of extravagant fantasy seems to be allowable in the commercial space of the multiplex — robots from outer space, time travel, magic and all the talking animals you want — but the art house is apparently the domain of the literal.

And yet this compulsive searching of the wounds, containing extravagant fantasies of emotional cruelty, was still riveting.

Like a lot of promoters who floated extravagant fantasies during the profligate eighties, Rheuban knew friendly and indulgent bankers.

Young would count it among the "extravagant fantasies", as it was neither easy nor especially cheap to build (£36m, with a contractor pulling out in the process).

The closest comparisons to the drip-castle kingdom we walked through may come from "The Lord of the Rings," but even Tolkien's extravagant fantasies don't measure up to the strange, glimmering reality of the cavern.

Lesser directors had been filming song-and-dance scenes with a dull, stage-bound fidelity; Berkeley — the subject of a Film Forum series Dec. 7-15 — themed them into extravagant fantasies that could only be realized on film.