Sentence examples for visual fantasy from inspiring English sources

For the first time, visual fantasy fully matched and even exceeded the verbal fantasy of the stories of the Nights.

Sometimes this simply meant hair-raising levels of ribaldry, sometimes stark truths about city life, sometimes mad flights of verbal and visual fantasy.

Chelsea Through Monday This smart little pipe dream of a photo-and-video show, organized by Daniel Reich, mixes visual fantasy and social history in just the right proportions.

Television almost killed what remained of comics in the mid-fifties; now new computer-generated special-effects technologies have robbed comics of even their near-monopoly on primal visual fantasy.

And down south at the nation's other august summer dance attraction, the AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL, in Durham, N.C., the first full week opens with performances by the gritty, cheeky URBAN BUSH WOMEN on Tuesday and Wednesday and concludes, Thursday through Saturday, with Pilobolus, a festival favorite for the muscular visual fantasy of its repertory.

In our strenuous yet possibly misguided attempt to take the movies seriously, the natural and primary thrust has been to ask them to be "cinematic", to dwell on appearances, the visual, fantasy in action, unprecedented spectacle, and to do things that no other medium could attempt, let alone surpass.

Ladle on gags, visual fantasies, burlesque, gay jokes, dreams, flashbacks, abrupt shifts in tone, and make it all facetious.

Something similar happened last year when Ang Lee won the "Best Director" award for "Life of Pi": the message here is that while the Academy enjoys its luscious visual fantasies, it's the morality tales that get the biggest prize.

The photographic medium has, from the start, been recognized as an imprint of physical reality — and, nearly from the start, has been subjected to manipulations so as to realize impossible visual fantasies.

Moreover, in several scenes, Maitland surpasses external events to get cinematically into the minds of his interview subjects, emphasizing their remarks with subjective visual fantasies, whether lyrical or horrific, that conjure inner experience impressionistically.

Often these worries are expressed, and to some extent mitigated, by means of extravagant visual fantasies that picture a world of gleaming, high-rise cities, flying cars and soulful robots.