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- noun German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
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* He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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* He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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* He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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* He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Baron Munchausen, which is my favorite Gilliam movie, is about a storyteller.
Story. Plot. Imagination. Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Many of the capital extravagances contained in 'Baron Munchausen' are borrowed literally from the old Latin jest-books.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Rich: Explain the Baron Munchausen thing because I haven't seen that movie, actually.
Houses Collide: Game of Thrones Discussion — Tyrion's Brutality and Wait, Renly Is Gay? 2011
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Before his on-screen career — which took off after he filled the title role in Terry Gilliam's 1989 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — the English-born actor was the artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the 1980s.
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Much of this series has felt realistic, but everything at the Eyrie is just so over the top, almost circus-like, fitting with Baron Munchausen's proclivity for telling tall tales.
Houses Collide: Game of Thrones Discussion — Tyrion's Brutality and Wait, Renly Is Gay? 2011
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His other movies -- including Time Bandits and Twelve Monkeys (rating: 88), about time travel, and The Fisher-King (rating: 73) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about folk tales -- take various methods of storytelling.
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