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In the world today, any reasonable and widely shared opinion is the result of a long and complicated history of enlightenment culminating in liberal institutions that we should be proud of and teach our children to revere, instead of favouring the fantastic theory that a regard for civilised values somehow exacerbates a conspiracy against the wretched of the earth.

Whitney Douglas said she likes more fantastic stories, mentioning one about sorcery and witchcraft.

The title story, a fantastic riff upon a fantasy, almost duplicates Fitzgerald’s for a few sentences but goes off weirdly in its own directions.

'He's playing it fantastically close to his chest,' one Number 10 official says to me.

And when this fantastic house of cards finally collapsed, MacGregor spent a grand total of eight months in a French prison.

Albee's plays were doing less and less well: "I was astonished," says Page, "when The Lady from Dubuque [1980], which I thought was a fantastic play, was swept away and replaced by this play called Children of a Lesser God, a very sentimental play about deaf people - fine, heart in the right place - but nothing like the quality of Albee's play."One fantastic idea was a cloud of white tulle and lace over large pink satin ribbons topping a black silk crepe skirt.

(An aristocratic friend of mine told me that, of a bevy of film stars who came to stay in one particularly grand house, Paltrow was the only one to write a thank-you letter.) She's shown up at the Dorchester hotel in central London in black Topshop jeans ('It's fantastic, that place!), savagely spike-heeled Manolo Blahnik ankle boots, a multicoloured, faintly glittering Chanel top and, beneath that, a grey T-shirt that's lapping over the barely visible hillock of her recently announced pregnancy.

Did Paltrow ever feel that?'Oh my gosh!No, no... But in the 1950s, you know, the modern British revolution hadn't happened and you couldn't get a fantastic meal, and great plumbing, and good heating - all the stuff that would make England feel dark and dank compared to America.

Because it all seemed fantastical, I was unable to sense any real emotional depth.

But even before that piece of shocking news came out, it was eminently clear that Bryant was not “the next Michael Jordan”—that, indeed, such a fantastical formulation of there being any “next Michael Jordan” was an obvious impossibility.

Last year the NBA offered up fantastic entertainment.

Jordan was a man whose celebrity reached fantastical proportions, yet every inch of his fame was undeniably honest, self-made, legitimate.

Albee's plays were doing less and less well: "I was astonished," says Page, "when The Lady from Dubuque [1980], which I thought was a fantastic play, was swept away and replaced by this play called Children of a Lesser God, a very sentimental play about deaf people - fine, heart in the right place - but nothing like the quality of Albee's play."“ This would have been a fantastic result if we had only drawn, but Kenny stuck that chance away, which is something we haven’t been doing,” Jones said.

Ludicrous perhaps, but aren't those precisely the kinds of impossible effects a playwright would need to deploy in order to do credit to the fantastical story that Milton, in his blind, seer-like reverie, relates?The poet set himself the task of justifying the ways of God to men and in so doing envisaged scenes that tested his powers of description to the utmost: the burning lake of Hell, the construction of Pandemonium, Satan's journey through Chaos - to cite just a few of the poem's early mind-boggling adventures in scale.

The team spirit was fantastic.


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