Sentence examples for flying chair from inspiring English sources

Conceived by the institute's head Lisa Le Feuvre with curator Pavel Pyś, this series of nine sculptural events – which has so far featured a flying chair by Roman Signer and Simone Fort's Slant Board, a giant ramp performers moved across using ropes – is intended to "challenge assumptions of sculpture as immovable, stable and fixed".

Among the attractions at the weekend Governors Island festival are flying chair rides, boat-shaped swings and carousels with hand-carved wooden animals for seats.

Abbott Miller, a partner at Pentagram Design in Manhattan, who curated the show, said that one of the earliest elevators was a "flying chair" mounted outside Louis XV's palace at Versailles in 1743.

It is no shock to learn that Louis XV of France, rumored at the time of his reign to bathe in the blood of virgins and to have sired ninety illegitimate children, invented the first elevator, then called a "flying chair," to heave him to his mistresses' chambers on the second floor of his apartment.

By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn October 15, 2009 It is no shock to learn that Louis XV of France, rumored at the time of his reign to bathe in the blood of virgins and to have sired ninety illegitimate children, invented the first elevator, then called a "flying chair," to heave him to his mistresses' chambers on the second floor of his apartment.

The best of these is "Route 110," in which Mr. Heaney recalls both "the slack marsupial vent" of a bookstore clerk's change-pocket when he buys a copy of Virgil's Aeneid, and later: "Slim Whitman's wavering tenor amplified/Above sparking dodgems, flying chair-o-planes/A mile of road with parked cars in the twilight".

11 U.C.L.A. -- Watch for flying chairs, and for hot Tech to be cooled off.

Later, in the sprawling park known as the Takht-e-Safar gardens — one of Ismail Khan's legacies — children swirled in flying chairs at a creaky multicolored fun fair.

When I tracked down 50-odd of them for my book The Fallen, awestruck ex-members would regale me with tales of flying chairs, being told they'd played "like a bloody pub band", or drummers being fined a fiver for the heinous crime of hitting the tom tom.

If he doesn't, he better watch out for flying chairs.

It is the moment before Frisbees begin to fly, Chairs and umbrellas open, The smell of hot dogs and fries fills the air.