The notion of floating Chrysler, in which Fiat has amassed a 58.5% stake, has been abhorrent to Mr Marchionne, who told investors just a few weeks ago that it was not the best way to build the business (one analyst wrote a paper recently titled "Chrysler The IPO That Will Not Happen").
But the notion of floating disc-shaped aircraft wasn't considered fanciful by governments and militaries around the world.
Like many of Mr. Saraceno's installations "Cloud City" is his vision of floating or flying cities — places that defy conventional notions of space, time and gravity.
If you've never taken a cruise before it is easy to be put off by outdated notions of float and bloat.
"He was just kind of floating around".
For a while now, the notion has been floating around that I should become Professor DeWhyse, role model, academic, purveyor of knowledge, teacher, scholar, virtue personified.
This discovery stoked his already romantic notions about floating messages.
That was even one of her stupid thoughts, one of the notions that floated by as Georgie, who'd brought her the news, hovered, ready to catch her if she fainted or to fetch water, a sweater, whatever she wanted.
And circumstances -- starting with the success of "Survivor" and continuing with the notion floated by CBS two years ago of a reality version of another 60's comedy, "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- made a "Gilligan" reality series practically inevitable.
His disapproval or his affection were usually aspects of a floating arrangement of father-notions, largely sonic: footsteps pacing overhead, a voice descending stairs.
Because of his dual role, some media experts wondered yesterday whether Mr. Bronfman might be floating the notion of a bid simply to increase investor interest in Vivendi.
