One was opening film The Grand Budapest Hotel, in which director Wes Anderson pushed his hyper-meticulous brand of baroque into grotesque and fanciful new realms.
The places conjured in the works of Judith Belzer and Charlotte Schulz inhabit the sometimes fanciful, sometimes mysterious realms where the built and natural environments coexist.
A Ghibli animator turned director, Mr. Yonebayashi fills in this hidden realm with fanciful dollhouse detail, both in the Clock quarters — where a clay flower pot serves as the hearth, and postage stamps hang like paintings — and in the shadowy interiors where Arrietty, nimbly scaling steps made of nails, first learns the art of the steal from her father, Pod (Will Arnett).
Gradually, Marco's utility to the khan will go far beyond regaling the emperor with fanciful descriptions of his vast realm.
Miéville tends to set his novels in fanciful places, from the vaguely steampunk realm of Bas-Lag, in "Perdido Street Station" and its two sequels, to the far-future planet of Arieka, in "Embassytown" (2011).
Of course, folksy Quebec can still be found in the more tourist-trampled part sof town, within the realm of Chateau Frontenac, the fanciful castle crowning the city, now a landmark hotel.
The idea of the entire internet vanishing overnight might seem fanciful, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
This fanciful claim, however, clearly belongs more in the realm of fairytale.
Ryan suggests that modern political thought begins when such "deep matters" are not just exiled from the political sphere but deemed altogether unnecessary and fanciful — when politics is conceived not as a realm where human beings perfect their natures but as one where they express the flawed, fearful natures that we actually possess.
