How To Use Chimerical In A Sentence
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But if the Israelis really do fear the loss of their deterrent from Lebanon — which is kind of chimerical; Israel is the regional superpower, and it says a lot that Hamas’s rockets are crude Qassams — then stopping now might play into the same psychodrama.
Better Watch What You Say | ATTACKERMAN
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Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
Chapter 2
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While others are feasting their fruitful imaginations with the idle and visionary dreams of fanaticism; with a kind of chimerical heaven of which they know _nothing_, as to its certainty: this man is in heaven already: dwelling in love, he 'dwelleth in God, and God in him.'
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation
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Charles Deroko Brooklyn No MSG To the Editor: Isn’t it clear that the premise of a “Plan B” chimerically wedding the sports arena to the new Penn Station is a terrible idea when compared to that of a redrawn and refurbished transportation hub/post office that offers every advantage of both [“Lord Foster, Others Propose Massive Plan to Supplant Garden,” Matthew Schuerman, Nov. 13]?
Letters
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Among the moderns, indeed, there has arisen a chimerical method of disposing the fortune of the persons represented, according to what they call poetical justice; and letting none be unhappy but those who deserve it.
Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer
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Then, the young girl appeared, almost chimerically.
Mark Twain
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his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
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Because it offers resistance, however chimerical, to the teeth.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.
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His falsetto voice captures the chimerical sound of the castrati with eerie accuracy, something that becomes clear when we hear a scratchy recording of the last castrato, Moreschi, made at the turn of the 20th century.
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For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.
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All these vague and divergent points on which my eyes rested made more distant apparently than if it had been separated from us by several streets or by a series of foothills the house of Mme. de Plassac, actually quite near but chimerically remote as in an Alpine landscape.
The Guermantes Way
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Grotesque; spined and tusked, spiked and antlered, wenned and breasted; as chimerically angled, cusped and cornute as though they were the superangled, supercornute gods of the cusped and angled gods of the Javanese, they strove against the sledge-headed and smiting, the multiarmed and blasting square towers.
The Metal Monster
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That these inconveniencies and hardships kept them in a state of poverty and misery, and that the chief cause of all their calamities was the strict adherence of the Trustees to their chimerical and impracticable scheme of settlement, by which the people were refused the obvious means of subsistence, and cut off from all prospects of success.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
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Because it offers resistance, however chimerical, to the teeth.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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The provocation you received from Sir James Wal - lace, and the fuppofed laws of honor, by which you were induced to become the avenger of your own wrong, in order to avoid what you call dif - grace, f alfe and chimerical notions of honor receive no countenance or indulgence from this court, it is contrary not only to the laws of God and humanity, but to the municipal laws of this, and every country throughout the globe.
The trial of Lieutenant Charles Bourne : upon the prosecution of Sir James Wallace, Knt., for an assault : also the law pleadings, the arguments of counsel, and the speech of Mr. Justice Willes upon passing judgment
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His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.
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Yes, sir, you are right; we have one "chimerical" idea -- giving our readers such a neat, spicy, beautiful paper for two dollars a year.
What the Press Says of Us
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Hodder fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, awaking during the night at occasional intervals to recall chimerical dreams in which the events of the day before were reflected, but caricatured and distorted.
The Inside of the Cup — Volume 04
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She struggles for no kind of chimerical credit, disclaims the appearance of every affectation, and is in all things just what she seems, and others would be thought.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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As far as I can tell, however, Youtube's claimed magnanimousness is totally chimerical, and, furthermore, if it doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Mirabeau (who was to be the father of the famous orator) was a man of talent, but violent, chimerical and lawless, "farouche," as he himself put it.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
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What is clear, is that returning to industrial-age conditions and equilibriums is chimerical.
Is 'Fewer Makers, More Takers' an Inevitable Change?
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Most interpret the information from the victims as chimerical thinking.
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He interested his brother Etienne in these so-called chimerical projects.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
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These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
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As I maintained a while back, punk was part of the glam continuum; the ‘break’ between glam and punk looks chimerical.