How To Use Fanciful In A Sentence

How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
Not so long ago, the major film critics in the U.S. fancifully tossed around the idea of the ‘death of cinema.’
Maxwell did not mention the banana theory but he dismissed the numerous theories and meanings ascribed to the name Sabah in published literature as "fanciful suggestions" because there was a lack of supporting evidence. Undefined
Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality. Words, words | clusterflock
The fountain illustrated, an exquisite piece of Gothic architecture in miniature, was designed to be both fanciful and functional.

They, too, have the richly overembellished rooflines; they, too, have achieved a fanciful arrangement of spaces possible only through centuries of adding structure onto structure onto ruin. Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out)
She tempers my more fanciful ideas on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
Not only was this rather fanciful with six mouths to feed, but I ended up spending a fortune at the local farm shop. Times, Sunday Times
The about section of her web site is full of fanciful garble about her consulting work.
The last chukka saw both teams go all out and play some very fanciful and accurate polo, raising the excitement to a fevered pitch.
So the idea that philosophy does relate to the everyday concerns reflected in the news is not a fanciful one at all.
Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.
As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy.
When I was away from her -- oh, the easeless longing that was almost pain, the fanciful elaboration of our last talk, the hint of her graces in bird and flower and tree! The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Of course, it all sounds a bit fanciful, perhaps even unbelievable, unpractical, but it wasn't as though I were of a brilliant mind and had a university-destined career.
He has some fanciful notion about converting one room of his apartment into a gallery.
The rock's great antiquity means fanciful myths have grown around it. Times, Sunday Times
That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
Paintings of original and fanciful snowmen are one favorite, and winter trees or landscapes are another.
To feel the full glory of the sun, the joy of the Western wind, to hear the aphonous whisperings of the flowers, to be fancifully cognisant of "the music of the spheres"; better this with only a garret for your environment, than to be a wealthy Peter Bell in a palace, or a lord of many acres who sees nothing beyond its intrinsic value in a Turner, and finds Shelley poor stuff and Tennyson only a rhymster. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
In addition, the assertion that the documents might have been fabricated is without foundation and the argument is somewhat fanciful.
As in connection with 1: 7 the idea of a kind of sidereal ocean had to be rejected as a purely fanciful notion of commentators, so here. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
The combat life of this famous pilot was not the fanciful image of an undaunted superhero but one of considerable physical and mental exhaustion as well as trauma.
It seems that Valvasor made the logical (but incorrect) assumption that Lintvern (which is a garbled form of the German word Lindwurm, meaning dragon) was so named because it was the source of olms (which were fancifully regarded as dragon larvae at the time). Archive 2006-03-01
Many may dismiss these notions as absurdly fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
The innumerable efforts to identify the glyphs by their superficial appearance, calling the banded headdress a “pottery decoration,” and explaining the face-glyph of the North thereby, because in Maya _xaman_ is north and _xamach_ a tortilla dish (to say nothing of others still more fanciful, by a host of writers), have broken down, as was to be expected. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
But he forecast courts will soon be entirely electronic and suggested it was not entirely fanciful that computers could one day replace judges. The Sun
Alongside these practical ideas were more fanciful ones. The Times Literary Supplement
I was tall and slender with long dark hair and a penchant for Anna Belinda clothes, and fancifully thought our bohemian style set us apart in our particular pocket of south London. Family life
On its back, he shaped shells and cartouches, or fanciful scrolls, which communicated that this chair was not meant to stiffly line the wall but rather to be moved about for impromptu use.
But he doesn't forget to call his monstrosities fanciful names. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology.
Romantic fanciful thoughts and connotative and elegant idiosyncrasy unfold rich an tender feeling.
Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.
It happened that during this time, King George IV enjoyed frequent retreats to the Royal Pavilion, his fanciful beachside palace in Brighton. The English Is Coming!
Brothers Tim and David Dang have poured their proclivities for fanciful imaginings and arty doodles into a sharply drawn comic for kids, Brilliant Boy, about a handful of precocious tykes and their G-rated misadventures.
Then the annoying Arthurians : “Well, we of the gentler sex must be permitted a little fancifulness, must we not, my sweet?” Archive 2008-09-01
The new place is colourful and inviting, as sunflower-yellow walls help to show off Obadia's collection of colourful wall hangings, photographs, ornamental pots and fanciful souvenirs.
And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
The suggestion that there was a conspiracy is not entirely fanciful.
Without business any such transition would be fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
That fanciful idea of a unicorn is not just magicked into mythology from nowhere. Archive 2009-02-01
He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure. Chapter 20
The undress, fanciful frock he wore in common was exchanged for the attire of one of his assumed rank and service, which had been made to fit his person with the nicest care, and with perhaps a coxcomical attention to the proportions of his really fine person; and in all other things was he speedily equipped for the disguise he chose to affect. The Red Rover
Alongside these practical ideas were more fanciful ones. The Times Literary Supplement
I know nothing which more shows the essential and inherent perfection of simplicity of thought, above that which I call the Gothic manner in writing, than this, that the first pleases all kinds of palates, and the latter only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors and writers of epigram. Essays and Tales
He has some fanciful notion about converting one room of his apartment into a gallery.
The discovery gave rise to much fanciful conjecture; it was even said that the mylodon had been domesticated and kept tame in the caves; but Doctor Moreno laughed at the supposition and said that it lacked any foundation in fact. VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
Many may dismiss these notions as absurdly fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
Given the paucity of alternatives, a senior cap is not entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
There are terse and objective descriptions of observed phenomena, apothegmatic passages, riddles and allegories, as well as fanciful narratives.
My mind is a fanciful beast, painting its way across the cupboards -- a jabberwock on the prowl. Stem-d Diary Entry
Racing before then is a fanciful notion. Times, Sunday Times
It was also to be a vehicle for Dickens as an essayist, both as a fanciful observer and as an earnestly satiric social critic.
A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level. The Complete Father Brown
Nunc Dimittis is a fanciful tale of a famous portrait painter, who paints his subjects in the nude before adding their clothes, layer by layer. Storyteller
But he forecast courts will soon be entirely electronic and suggested it was not entirely fanciful that computers could one day replace judges. The Sun
From bottom three to top four would appear a fanciful notion. Times, Sunday Times
Racing before then is a fanciful notion. Times, Sunday Times
While he is recognized for these fanciful appointments, he did more than build furniture.
Without business any such transition would be fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
He is less imaginative or fanciful than Tom, but more practical.
It may not be too fanciful to think that she could win over the judges' hearts as well. Times, Sunday Times
Now I accept my share of the blame, but to suggest it was uniquely down to me is a little fanciful.
It was always fanciful to think that wind and solar farms could stop global warming. Times, Sunday Times
The rock's great antiquity means fanciful myths have grown around it. Times, Sunday Times
The gayest of the group is Sir John Suckling, the writer of what should be called vers de société, a more careless but more fanciful Prior. Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
Without business any such transition would be fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
Although it might seem to be a highly fanciful notion, it is hardly more fanciful than some haecceity theories which employ the same distinction, nor perhaps than some possible worlds theories either.
I would have thought that suburbanites would be the very last to indulge in such a cockeyed fanciful endeavour.
“Old!” exclaimed the knight; “now, by the gods and saints, if there be a gallant at the British Court more fancifully considerate, and more considerately fanciful, but quaintly curious, and more curiously quaint, in frequent changes of all rich articles of vesture, becoming one who may be accounted point-device a courtier, I will give you leave to term me a slave and a liar.” The Monastery
It may not be too fanciful to think that she could win over the judges' hearts as well. Times, Sunday Times
This kind of reasoning is, of course, nonsense, but it serves as an illustration of the danger in concocting fanciful theories based on historical precedents.
Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology.
It is not such a fanciful idea. The Sun
Nor is the idea entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
One of the fathers, in great severity called poesy _vinum dæmonum_," says Bacon: himself too fanciful for a philosopher. Logic Deductive and Inductive
Cell is only a story, and its fanciful embellishments make it a rather good one.
It has frequently been said that he himself assumed this form, because Columba is the Latin word for "Dove," with a fanciful feeling that, in carrying Christian light to the West, he had taken the mission of the dove. The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
Given the paucity of alternatives, a senior cap is not entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
To his credit, the former centre‑back, described somewhat fancifully as a Derby and West Ham "legend" at Derby maybe, but I think you have to play for a team longer than a couple of seasons to have legendary status bestowed upon you, smiled enigmatically, and swatted it away like he used to troublesome attackers. It's worth staying up, if only to avoid a night in with Manish | Martin Kelner
Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
The fortition of laryngeals before the sibilant is just commonsense linguistics and doesn't require a more fanciful explanation beyond that. Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person
Forget flirting--I was just being fanciful and Freudian when I said that. STAGE FRIGHT
This is an illogical, nay, fanciful urge since I have never really heard them.
Many 17th Century stumpwork pieces depict fanciful pastoral scenes, with very well dressed shepherds and shepherdesses being central figures. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
It is not entirely fanciful to think that dolphins can be our friends too. Times, Sunday Times
Not only was this rather fanciful with six mouths to feed, but I ended up spending a fortune at the local farm shop. Times, Sunday Times
Now, such an idea seems fanciful at best. Times, Sunday Times
Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of My Novel — Complete
The balance between fairy tale and ritual in this opera is always a crapshoot and, although audiences love fanciful animals and flying spirits, Mozart's Masonic message tipped that balance here. 'Magic Flute' hits the right notes -- except for the dramatic ones
Given the paucity of alternatives, a senior cap is not entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
The distich is highly fanciful and the conceits would hardly occur to The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
As a foreseeability issue it was far-fetched and fanciful.
'Surely,' adds Dr Buist, 'coincidences such as these can neither be fanciful nor accidental; they carry us far back beyond the ages of those we call the aborigines of Britain, as the pyramids and sculptured stones of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
They made fanciful designs with dots, lines and geometric patterns on walls, antlers and other things.
It is not entirely fanciful to think that dolphins can be our friends too. Times, Sunday Times
It is not at all fanciful to see this as conferring a popular legitimacy which enables that court to play a part in public affairs that would strike many in this country as overmighty if adopted by the High Court.
It isn't fanciful to think it could happen again. Times, Sunday Times
Its rather curious title means that it was intended as an introduction to a study of the works of Plato, but this is rather fanciful.
Here the view was dominated by a stupendous skyscape, rather like the fanciful ones on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Like Arve Henriksen, Tamura's vocalised trumpet often resembled a shakuhachi (wooden Japanese flute) or (more fancifully) the gentle soughing of wind through trees.
He gradually prevailed over his antagonists, and his system recovered its former station; the scandal of mathematics disappeared, and the quackery of the square of the velocity was dismissed at last to the extramundane spaces, to the limbo of vanity, together with the monads which Leibnitz supposed to constitute the concentric mirror of nature, and also with his elaborate and fanciful system of A Philosophical Dictionary
The judge said the two men lived in a ‘strange and fanciful world’ where they thought they could ‘ride around in cars, armed to the hilt’.
Learn to tie fanciful bows or just tie a simple bow to the backs of dining chairs, around stemware or around your silverware.
As in, John's fancifully illustrated autofellatio image. ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Undead Get Dirty
A taste for the elegant may be said to appear in their fanciful decorations of military display. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
A subtle colourist, he treated melancholy subjects in a fairytale manner, with fanciful and delicate landscapes.
Maybe he was like all the others and I was fancifully making all his nice gestures up, it was all a figment of my imagination.
She wore a red robe, flowing in closely fluted lines from under a fancifully embroidered cloak.
Perhaps it is not too fanciful to think of teaching mathematics through dance. The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
It was always fanciful to think that wind and solar farms could stop global warming. Times, Sunday Times
It is simply fanciful to suppose that the jury might have held the Side Agreements against the appellant as critical evidence to show his knowledge that these annuities were sham.
Serious readers might dismiss these questions as fanciful, but concern about flesh-eating ghouls is manifestly evident in today's popular culture.
151 This is no fanciful aera: the Pagans reckoned their calamities from the reign of their hero. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Alongside these practical ideas were more fanciful ones. The Times Literary Supplement
Learn to tie fanciful bows or just tie a simple bow to the backs of dining chairs, around stemware or around your silverware.
When Thor is exiled to Earth, cosmic bombast gives way to the terrestrial banality of his romance with Natalie Portman's astrophysicist, Jane, who talks earnestly about resolving her particle data and knows about Einstein-Rosen bridges, the fanciful wormholes through which bad guys and good guys alike shuttle between realms like Metro North commuters. 'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower
Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable.
It may not be too fanciful to think that she could win over the judges' hearts as well. Times, Sunday Times
Now, such an idea seems fanciful at best. Times, Sunday Times
The artist is known for his fanciful painting in which a potpourri of objects, animals, characters from the artist's past life, from his dreams, and from his everyday life are evoked.
Some of his public alerts sound quite fanciful.
The Shulchan Aruch is arranged in four parts, called fancifully, "Path of Life" (_Orach Chayim_), "Teacher of Knowledge" (_Yoreh Deah_), Chapters on Jewish Literature
Rich in all the bibliopolic "pearl and gold" of a quaint and fanciful binding, glancing with holly berries and mistletoe, Mr. Bogue presents us with a volume as interesting as it is characteristic and elegant, Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
And so, presently, being determined to give way to no fancifulness, I avoided the boundary of cliffs, and kept more to that part which commanded the slope, up and down which we made our journeys to and from the island below. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
One was an exultant's with blazonings painted on the doors and palfreniers in fanciful liveries, but the other two were fiacres, small and plain. The Shadow of the Torturer
Nor were the disagreeables purely fanciful and metaphysical, for the sway that he exercised over your feelings he extended to your garden, and, through the garden, to your diet. Memories and Portraits
Blinks is so called because its tiny greenish-white flowers rarely open fully, fancifully as if they were reluctant to face the sun.
During their mission, they encounter all kinds of bizarre and fanciful creatures.
Okay, so admittedly that may be a fanciful and unrealistic goal.
There is no difficulty, by the help of Aristotle and later writers, in criticizing the Timaeus of Plato, in pointing out the inconsistencies of the work, in dwelling on the ignorance of anatomy displayed by the author, in showing the fancifulness or unmeaningness of some of his reasons. Timaeus
I have to admit that I like certain fanciful ideas, and some of these I sort of entertain with just a little more than fictive suspension of disbelief for the sake of a good story, despite their being rather more mystical than my materialist instincts. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
Given the paucity of alternatives, a senior cap is not entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
It was always fanciful to think that wind and solar farms could stop global warming. Times, Sunday Times
She signposts areas where evidence is lacking and spotlights the more fanciful assumptions.
But he forecast courts will soon be entirely electronic and suggested it was not entirely fanciful that computers could one day replace judges. The Sun
It should be straightforward, but the idea seems fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
And she saw that Pitt, while he was enthusiastic and eager, and what she called fanciful, always was true, honest, and firm in what he thought right. A Red Wallflower
This assessment of the emerging striker's attributes in the here and now is fanciful.
He shared, too, their use of strong line, cool colour, and fanciful decoration.
She tempers my more fanciful ideas on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
Nor is the idea entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
Their physique is feminine; they are fanciful, dainty, reserved; they are literose, sophisticated in craftsmanship, but innocently unaware of the profound agitations of American life, of life everywhere. American Literature
At evening he had fancifully traced it down the chimney to the spot of its origin — seen the hearth and Bathsheba beside it — beside it in her out-door dress; for the clothes she had worn on the hill were by association equally with her person included in the compass of his affection; they seemed at this early time of his love a necessary ingredient of the sweet mixture called Bathsheba Everdene. Far from the Madding Crowd
There's a fancifulness and whimsy to the way she draws the human figure.
Scotch Highlanders, it consists of many folds of airy white material that protrude in the fanciful manner of the stage costume of a coryphee. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
He certainly enjoyed light romantic fiction and read fanciful books. Times, Sunday Times
Courtesy Tal R and Victoria Miro Gallery, London/ © Tal R 'Science Fiction' 2011 Tal R's art—from his cartoon-like, often sexually explicit drawings that playfully consider the dark and absurd, to the almost child-like collages that mix and match medium and material without convention, to fancifully rendered narrative- and character-rich paintings, full of dramatic color—have made him a buzzed-about talent over the past decade. The Tell-Tale Art of Tal R
Here, he used the intimacy of video to infiltrate the intense, distancing formalism of modernist dwellings and let us peer into some fanciful dramas unfolding within them.
My husband was no believer in what he termed my fanciful, speculative theories; yet at the time when his youngest boy and myself lay dangerously ill, and hardly expected to live, I received from him a letter, written in great haste, which commenced with this sentence: Roughing It in the Bush
Granting that panspermism may rest upon a purely fanciful and unsubstantial basis, it is but fair to concede that its great advocates have honestly attempted to explain by it all the vital phenomena occurring in nature, as M. Pasteur is conclusively attempting to do now. Life: Its True Genesis
Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality. Words, words | clusterflock
“But the way we stomp about, butting heads and drinking bloodwine and singing songs of honor … it is somewhat fanciful at times, I must admit.” Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
We sought to add imagination and fancifulness to regular family activities.
Author Satoshi Kanazawa, an âevolutionary psychologist,â then went on to draw some incendiary and fanciful conclusions from his findings: conservatism, he explained, is a very human predisposition based on self-interestâa bred-in-the-bone inclination to care about family and friends rather than the wider world that is genetically unrelated to us. The politics of IQ - Canada - Macleans.ca
Under it and in the centre is a square stone, planted upright and fancifully carved, to represent the omphalic region of the human frame. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
It is not entirely fanciful to think that dolphins can be our friends too. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the Lunarians wore ordinary garments, although their styles of it-upward-flared collars, short cloaks, dagged skirts, pectoral sunbursts, insignia of phyle or family, colors, iridescences, inset glitterlights, details more fanciful still-would have been florid were it not as natural on them as brilliance on a coral snake. The Stars Are Also Fire
His illustrations now incorporated humor, history and fantasy, with a subsidiary line — since meeting the painter Richard Dadd — in sprites and fairies, that gave him licence to express his Celtic fancifulness and aversion to modernity without adopting the grave religiosity of the Pre-Raphaelites. 'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes:
Talk of giving primary school children a basic grounding in science is fanciful if we cannot find enough teachers at second level to teach maths and physics.
Not the least of Gossart ' s excellences is his inventiveness in contriving the fanciful architectural backdrops for both his Christian subjects and his pagan mythologies. Gossart
The living room is the most fanciful; its highly abstract designs interspersed with some identifiable birds and the occasional flower.
It isn't fanciful to think it could happen again. Times, Sunday Times
The fanciful asymmetry of the French rococo style was considered the essence of beauty.
The discovery made international headlines, and specialists arrived from Poland to examine the find - polychromes depicting colorful, fanciful figures, some with faces bearing a striking resemblance to Felix Landau and his mistress.
Nor is the idea entirely fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels obliged to adduce flimsy evidence and extrapolate fanciful conclusions from it.
The vocalised trumpet often resembled a shakuhachi (wooden Japanese flute) or (more fancifully) the gentle soughing of wind through trees.
It should be straightforward, but the idea seems fanciful. Times, Sunday Times
While that might be overstating the case just a little, it is by no means totally fanciful.
He describes himself, perhaps fancifully, as a loyal oppositionist. Alexander Lebedev's office raided by masked police
The whole enlivened, and rendered more variegated, and fanciful, by the various windings of the Chester river.
But these were naught but the idle dreams of a fanciful girl.
She tempers my more fanciful ideas on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
It might have been fanciful to suppose that under their outer bearing there was something of the shamed air of two cheats who were linked together by concealed handcuffs; but, not so, to suppose that they were haggardly weary of one another, of themselves, and of all this world. Our Mutual Friend
the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated
Your Honour, I do not know the full facts, but from the facts that your Honour has given me, it would not seem to be far-fetched or fanciful.
That fanciful idea of a unicorn is not just magicked into mythology from nowhere. Archive 2009-02-01
De Stancy had long since discovered that his chance lay chiefly in her recently acquired and fanciful predilection d'artiste for hoary mediaeval families with ancestors in alabaster and primogenitive renown. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
Is he concerned that some items have been given fanciful names to disguise inferior food? Exploring language (6th edn)
Organ and orchestra of divers instruments were allowed the same liberty of improvising on the given theme, embroidering these with fanciful _capricci_, and indulging their own taste in symphonies connected with the main structure by slight and artificial links. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
In fact the ornamentist, being an ornamentist, naturally takes advantage of the necessity of stitching, to pattern his metallic surfaces with diaper, using often, as in the scroll in Illustration 57, a diversity of patterns, which gives at once varied texture and fanciful interest to the surface. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
The work was subtle, remote, fanciful - a snow scene with purple edges.
We may dismiss at once such fanciful explanations as that missa is the Hebrew missah ( "oblation" -- so Reuchlin and The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Stephen's bullying self-pity and edgy rationalism ran up sharply against Anny's fancifulness, extravagance and sentiment.
It isn't fanciful to think it could happen again. Times, Sunday Times
the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties
A taste for the elegant may be said to appear in their fanciful decorations of military display. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Is he concerned that some items have been given fanciful names to disguise inferior food? Exploring language (6th edn)
Scrimshaw is the decoration of bone or ivory objects, such as whale teeth and walrus tusks, with fanciful designs.
This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime. Milton
Equally, though no-one would begrudge mature students retraining as medics, it is fanciful to suppose that they alone can make up the shortfall.
It carries house-line leather goods and vintage items tagged with just enough provenance — say, the state where it was purchased — to inspire fanciful imagined back stories.
Many writers have tried to poeticize drug abuse, to portray their habits as fanciful rather than merely destructive.
He built himself a palace, which he called a villa, and which was the most fanciful of structures, and full of every beautiful object which rare taste and boundless wealth could procure, from undoubted Endymion
The most spectacular of these is the Capel Garmon firedog from North Wales, with its magnificent horns and elaborate and fanciful manes.
Her fanciful reference to the powerful but imaginary "virgin Muses" (l. 41) is framed by the all too practical references in ll. 40 and 42, which remind us that in early modern culture, a "virgin" was first and foremost an unattached and thus relatively powerless woman. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
Good-humoured, often merry, abounding in kindness and generosity, he passed for a man as happy as he was prosperous; yet those who talked intimately with him obtained now and then a glimpse of something not quite in harmony with these characteristics, a touch of what would be called fancifulness, of uncertain spirits. The Crown of Life

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