Sentence examples for fanciful depiction from inspiring English sources

This is not an abstract or fanciful depiction.

Photonic Micropolis: This is not a research project, but is simply a fanciful depiction of a "photonic micropolis" incorporating many elements of our research.

"Siegfried and Roy" is at its most cloying at its outset, when two little boys overdo their awe while wandering backstage into a meeting with the two magicians that leads to the interwoven, fanciful depiction of their early life in Germany and their act in Las Vegas.

IN 1999, at the memorial service for Saul Steinberg, the artist famous for his fanciful depiction of New Yorker's short-sighted view of the world, remarks were made by the novelists Saul Bellow and Norman Manea, the poet John Hollander, the artist Mary Frank, the art historian Leo Steinberg, the writer Ian Frazier and the neurobiologist Dr. Torsten Wiesel.

Over the first three decades of the twentieth century, Evans's fanciful depiction of Minoan society drew the fervent attention of writers, artists, and thinkers who were at the forefront of the burgeoning modernist movement, including Robert Graves, H.D., Girgio de Chirico, Sigmund Freud, and James Joyce.

For in the midst of the fanciful depiction of the fates that are in store for different kinds of souls Plato specifies, in quite technical terms, that the capacity "to understand speech in terms of general Forms, proceeding to bring many perceptions together into a reasoned unity"(249b c) is the condition for the reincarnation in a human form.

Some, however, prefer to collect stamps with fanciful depictions, such as butterfly carnival costumes, a butterfly in the movie Bambi (on Bambi's nose), or a "fly speck" insect in the beak of a bird.

We know that the mantle is solid rock, contrary to various fanciful depictions in fiction and film, because, in the wake of major earthquakes, certain seismic waves that can be transmitted only through solids are detected on the opposite side of the globe.

Per some fanciful depictions, Rakhaine emperors, surrounded by Japanese samurai bodyguards, built a skyline of skyscraper-tall towers connected with air bridges.

She watched all the famous Hollywood films, but her most durable inspiration came from an account of Cleopatra found on a stele at Thebes, and from the fanciful, ultrafeminine depictions of the queen by 19th-century Orientalist painters like Alexandre Cabanel and Jean André Rixens.

The most significant development of the late Zhou, one among the most revolutionary of all moments in Chinese art, was the emergence of a representational art form, a departure from the ritualized depiction of fanciful and usually isolated creatures of the Shang and early to middle Zhou that is evident in the bronzes of this period.