Sentence examples for wacky inventions from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, Sayles differs from both Stowe, who wanted her melodrama to change reality, and Pynchon, who mixes his wacky inventions with his encyclopedic knowledge.

Andy Biskin, a jazz clarinetist with a low-key sense of humor, composed a series of pieces around Goldberg's elaborately wacky inventions, and also animated the original drawings.

WACKY inventions are a mainstay of American culture: self-tipping hats, refrigerated running shoes, leashes for canaries, to name just a few.

Often hungry, Mr. Jaffee was not above stealing fruit and mining rubbish for objects that he transformed into fishing rods and other gadgets, a talent Mad put to use when it showcased his knack for wacky inventions.

Stéphane simply moves back into his childhood bedroom, which his mother has kept unchanged with all his old toys and posters and wacky inventions, and it encourages Stéphane in his regressive Walter Mitendencytondency to reverie and fantasy.

The collection of 410 drawings and paintings span the range of the work of Heath Robinson, whose name entered the language in 1912 as a synonym for absurdly ingenious devices thanks to his drawings of complicated and wacky inventions – often for simple tasks.

His famous book, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, was the garrulous shaggy dog story that began to be published in 1760, in which the hero, after chapters and chapters filled with wacky invention, somehow never gets any further than the fraught and chaotic circumstances of his own birth.

Draw pictures of creative, unique, wacky, or interesting invention ideas.

Some of the inventions were wacky.

Interest in these potential real-world benefits and the otherworldly freedoms of lucid dreaming — as well as the questions it provokes about the precarious nature of reality — has spurred the invention and evolution of seemingly wacky dream aids.

These and a thousand other devices went on display Wednesday at the world's biggest inventions fair, where exhibitors from 45 countries showed off their weird and wacky designs in Geneva in the hope of attracting investors or buyers.