David Rivel is in this fanciful situation.
The story brings us back to Eel Marsh House 40 years on, during the second world war, by way of a slightly fanciful situation in which London kids are evacuated, though not to specific families; they are simply billeted in this big, creepy old house built on a mudflat that floods when the tide comes in, rather like Holy Island in Northumberland.
While pulps are prose and comic books are illustrated, the two formats had many similarities — bold covers, fanciful situations, vocal fans who made their opinions known in letters to the editor and efforts to cater to every narrative desire, in westerns, mysteries, adventures, romance, horror, science fiction and more.
"Bedevilled" is a film that remains trapped between the new realist aesthetic (the atmospheric Paris sequences were photographed by Freddie Young) and the older tradition of built environments and fanciful plot situations.
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However, neither of these fanciful hypothetical situations proves Respondents' point.
Justice Scalia dismissed these concerns as "fanciful hypotheticals," saying that such situations would either not give rise to prosecutions or, if they did, would be protected by the courts.
This scenario might sound like fanciful nonsense but, incredibly, it is the real-life situation faced by Kadian Kennelly, who bought the flat a year ago.
In place of brutish nature, fanciful artifice.
Conceit,, usually a simile or metaphor, that forms an extremely ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous objects or situations.
The current situation, he claims, is more fantastic than the most fanciful science fiction, or theoretical projections of a futurist society.
