The Physiologus consists of descriptions of animals, birds, and fantastic creatures, sometimes stones and plants, provided with moral content.

Even though most chapters are humorous, wildly fantastic and sometimes absurd, a few relatively serious passages have become famous for descriptions of humanistic ideals of the time.

3rd century BCE ) and is distinguished by its more emotionally intense affect, often full of despair and descriptions of the fantastic.

She often draws on magic realism as a writing style, combining the fantastic or unusual with realistic and believable descriptions, placing her within the tradition of Southern Ontario Gothic.

The remaining three chapters consist of creature statistics and descriptions for fantastic beasts, animals, and beasts of science fiction and the movies.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

Finally, since testimonies tend to conflict with one another when it comes to the miraculous — that is, one man's religious miracle may be contradicted by another man's miracle — any testimony relating to the fantastic is self-denunciating.

During dream sleep, in contrast, people who are awakened report rich and detailed experiences in which events form a continuous progression, which may however be interrupted by bizarre or fantastic intrusions.

* The Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, written by Duan Chengshi, records fantastic stories, anecdotes, and exotic customs.

In 1498, Annio published his antiquarian miscellany titled Antiquitatum variarum ( in 17 volumes ) where he put together a fantastic theory in which both the Hebrew and Etruscan languages were said to originate from a single source, the " Aramaic " spoken by Noah and his descendants, founders of Etruscan Viterbo.

His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

A lot of fantastic scenery and buildings were produced by Reg Hill, his carpenter Bill James and an assistant, Bob Bell.

Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron ( 1778 ), set out to take Walpole's plot and adapt it to the demands of the time by balancing fantastic elements with 18th-century realism.

English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.

Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as " Dero ", live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

The " Slumberland " of the title soon acquired a double meaning, referring not only to Morpheus's fairy kingdom, but to the state of sleep itself: Nemo would have dream-adventures in other imaginary lands, on the Moon and Mars, and in our own " real " world, made fantastic by the dream-state.

A picture of Musashi engaged in fantastic combat, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( 1798 – 1861 )

Finally, the immensely traumatic nature of the experience dashed basic assumptions: realism seemed bankrupt when faced with the fundamentally fantastic nature of trench warfare, as exemplified by books such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 ).

Satirical novels with fantastic settings such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift may be considered speculative fiction.

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

During this stage the shape of the tornado becomes highly influenced by the winds of the parent storm, and can be blown into fantastic patterns.

Unfettered by the bounds cast by a television budget for special effects, the comic series continuation for the Buffy canon explores more fantastic storylines, characters, and abilities for Willow.

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

The ensemble enters in a long adagio passage that is of fantastic difficulty, as well as loveliness, and adagio is the general medium of the piece.

Utopian and fantastic literature came into the forefront ( Jan Weiss, Karel Čapek, Eduard Bass, Jiří Haussmann ), as well as the genres of documentary prose, which sought to paint as accurate a picture of the world as possible ( Karel Čapek, Egon Erwin Kisch, Jiří Weil, Rudolf Těsnohlídek, Eduard Bass, Jaromír John, Karel Poláček ); lyrical, imaginative prose that allied itself with the poetic poetry of the time ( Karel Konrád, Jaroslav Jan Paulík, Vladislav Vančura ); and Catholically-oriented prose ( Jaroslav Durych, Jan Čep, Jakub Deml ).

Previously, albums such as Pink Floyds ' Dark Side of the Moon ' have been done, as well as the fantastic performances of Revovler-The Beatles at this years King's Week. The final performance of King's Week is the Gala Symphony Concert, where 6a musicians perform concertos accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra.

These four years have been considered perhaps the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history ; an Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold, as it has well been called, and may be briefly described as alternations of the fantastic jacobinism and the ruthless despotism.

Some of his fictional ideas are fantastic but many are plausible, and some ( such as the Balloon Merry-Go-Round in The Twenty-one Balloons ) might well be feasible.

His most well known verses are the rhapsodic Li Sao or " Lament " and the fantastic Tien Wen or " Heavenly Questions ".

Rivaldo scored some memorable goals in his first season at Olympiacos, including a fantastic effort in the Greek Cup final with a well placed lob from a difficult position close to the corner flag.

Cameron also noted that Novak is " undergoing treatment " and that " her doctors say she is in fantastic physical shape and should recover very well.

Other literary friends included, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, George Bernard Shaw ( who openly admits his debt to Graham for " Captain Brassbound's Conversion " as well as a key line in " Arms and the Man ") and G. K. Chesterton, who proclaimed him " The Prince of Preface Writers " and famously declared in his autobiography that while Cunninghame Graham would never be allowed to be Prime Minister, he instead " achieved the adventure of being Cunninghame Graham ", which Shaw described as " an achievement so fantastic that it would never be believed in a romance.

He has been a fantastic asset to the band and we'll miss him as well.

Following his success as captain of West Indies on the 1966 tour of England, the 1967 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack declared that for Sobers "( the 1966 Tests ) were one triumph after another with bat and ball, as well as in the field as a master tactician and fantastic catcher close to the bat ".

The game is set in Aarklash, a world of medieval fantasy where knights, wizards, priests and barbarians fight each other as well as fantastic creatures such as wolfen, elves, orcs, goblins and the undead.

Since at least the 18th century ( in French and German as well as English ) grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

; Netrunning: The longest in the book, it details rules for realistic computer networks as well as fantastic cyberspaces accessible only through a neural interface.

These refugees discovered a fantastic collection of Buddhist statues as well as jars holding more than ten thousand fragments of ancient Buddhist manuscripts, a large part of which is now in the Schøyen Collection.

The characters mostly come from the dramatic stories, flowers and birds, as well as some fantastic symbols.

" The crazy thing is so spectacularly original that even though alerted by my advance notice you are still going to be more surprised by Scarecrow than by anything else you have ever read in your life, even if you are ninety-five and have spent every free moment fiendishly consuming all of the most fantastic symbolist, futurist, cubist, surrealist, expressionist, anarchist, dadaist, existentialist, creationist, ultraist, vanguardist, magical realist, modernist, postmodernist and every other-ist compositions that you could lay your hands on, plus the farthest-out non-ist compositions as well, including Lucian's True Story, Rabelais ' Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Bobok.

Colin is a wealthy young man with a resourceful and stylish man-servant, Nicolas, as well as a fantastic olfactory-musical invention: the pianocktail.

He has been an enormously prolific writer, particularly in the early 1970s, in a variety of fields, most often in crime fiction and fantastic fiction, with notable, ambitious work published in other fields, as well, under his own name, as O ' Donnell, and as Mike Barry and under other pseudonyms.

A very peculiar and quite interesting museum is the one organized by the Army at its local " Comando del V Cuerpo de Ejército " at which a miniaturized recreation of the original Fortress is on display, made by César Puliafito, as well as a quite interesting collection of ancient maps, documents and pieces alongside one of the most important-and rather unknown-libraries of history in the region: this one and the one of the Salesians, at Inspectoría San Francisco Javier ( Head of the Salesians of Don Bosco for the whole Patagonia ) have fantastic collections with many priceless documents related to the conquest and civilization of Patagonia, almost completely carried out by the Army and the Salesians.

Instead, Dark Cloud 2 is a visual success due to its polished and graceful presentation, as well as its fantastic art design.

The only fantastic element, however, is the narrator's entry into the afterlife, where he meets with his dead wife and dog, and with the imaginary animals he and his wife invented as traveling companions, as well as a host of other friends.

He is well known for his realistic paintings of surreal alien ( or fantastic ) life.

Created by the puppetmaster and director Gerhard Behrendt, the show represented everyday life, travel, and fantastic adventure, as well as a certain amount of propaganda.