The success of his unusual book depends on whether or not you are prepared to indulge his flights of fancy, his whimsical asides, his outspoken views.

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If photos slipped to Nowhereelse.fr are more than just flights of fancy, they show a much narrower and possibly slimmer connector that matches up with the hole we've seen.

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Instead of going on flights of fancy or producing thematic output, most of those who showed in Milan presented clothes that had, dare I say it, a universal commercial appeal.

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The more concrete the writing, the better: Ms Sontag's flights of fancy, for example her whimsical musings on eating and dancing, inspired by Frank O'Hara and Jasper Johns, leave an impression of self-indulgence.

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Such reconstructions required considerable detective work as well as informed flights of fancy on the part of the re-composers in order to supply material which, in the original fragments, is ambiguous or altogether missing.

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But maybe that should make the gifts we give and the gifts we receive all the more precious, and the small flights of fancy and anticipation they offer us all the more appreciated for being rare.

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Unlike what was to come within a year, she wasn't singing to her own fans, caught up in the giddy confidence that they'd follow her on whatever flights of fancy she felt like taking in any given song.

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Rather than trying to depict these elements in programmatic terms, the music simply uses them as points of departure for flights of purely musical fancy.

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