How To Use Fantastical In A Sentence

The people were fantastically welcoming and the atmosphere in both cities seemed relaxed. The Sun
This is a fantastically good-looking car in the metal, especially when painted in the lurid shade of orange this model is sporting. Times, Sunday Times
The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum. Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
With a romantic flourish, he produces a presentation box, he gently eases it open and shows his amour some fantastically expensive ring.
A pig-farmer in Lethbridge has invented a pill, derived from pigfeed, that is fantastically effective in fighting clinical depression without nasty side-effects. Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives

Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction.
The magazine noted that 'nobody paints a moving picture as fantastically' as this writer-director.
The dream world is supposed to house escape, and yet the troubles and torments of the real world constantly find there way into the fantastical mix.
And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
In other words, this is your typical Pinkwater novel: screamingly funny, unbelievably weird, and fantastically awesome. Boing Boing
Always enjoyable, Timothy Spall is fantastically weasel-like as the unmasked Peter Pettigrew, every bit as loathsome as can be expected.
Although extensive (and presumably fantastically expensive), the excavations revealed a story of only local interest, with Medieval and later expansion by Kingston upon Thames via a series of revetments into the river.
Remind yourself that the right filter can be fantastically flattering, and she probably doesn't look that good in real life. Times, Sunday Times
They make fantastically successful pop stars, soul divas and sensitive singer-songwriters.
The ghosts are terrifyingly mean and fantastically cool by monster standards.
It's not a coincidence that I quoted his notions of raciality in fantastical races above. Ishoo Wun
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
The entire fantastical creation was crashing about her like a cardboard city in an earthquake. COMPULSION
He probably also designs those fantastically expensive suits and clothes as well, doodling them down on the backs of team sheets during langours in play.
A band was playing to a fantastically diverse range of people; young, old, winos, students, girls dressed up for a night on the town, Millwall boys in their caps.
Titles can fool you: I've so often been the victim of fantastically titled books that turn out to be duds as literature.
Oh, you who have read Plato attentively, that is to say, seven or eight fantastical dreams hidden in some garret in Europe, if ever these questions reach you, A Philosophical Dictionary
When Nobel invented dynamite, he thought it was a fantastically helpful thing to be used in mining.
After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 – a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. Sci-fi TV Preview: Warehouse 13 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
There was a mesmeric, far-away look in their eyes, even when upside down or with their legs wrapped around their head, that was more than just the effect of fantastically dilated pupils.
Some good questions were asked by the librarians, though, including the problem with gay secondary characters in fantastical settings (I interpreted this as how much 'weight' should be given to homophobia in these books when the world is new and the individual concerned is not the protagonist) and what book were the panelists currently reading (the audience was entertained by my description of Three Bags Full). Travels and Teeth
It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less. Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading?
They carried it off fantastically.
He was doing fantastically well and then lost his place. The Sun
Falstaff was big and fantastically blustery, and in that context, we somehow managed to avoid discussing the politics of the day, enjoying a jolly frivolous evening in all.
Then there are fantastically expensive acquisitions, the vaulting loans. Times, Sunday Times
There are even more examples of very thin units that persist over fantastically large areas in particular sedimentary basins.
Effortless hooks and fantastical storytelling gave way to chugging riffs and darker lyrics.
Both work fantastically well alone but together they're unbeatable.
The Bayh run idea is a classic case of a fantastical, ideologically-driven narrative which is then used to prognosticate future events. Matthew Yglesias » Bayh for President!
And a hundred other niggling little things that all add up to a big fantastical thumbs down. Times, Sunday Times
The other one is a picaresque fantastical-historical novel that takes the form of a fake memoir written by a famous 18th-century hoaxer named George Psalmanazar, in which he gives the real story behind his real-life memoir in which he said he was giving the real story. INTERVIEW: Alex Irvine
As the editor of Holography News, it’s always fascinating to see the latest trends in holography streets behind the fantastical science fiction world’s vision of what the technology should achieve. Hologram Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
While the movie told the vast majority of the story through the eyes of Arthur Dent, schlubby English nobody, as a way of giving the viewing audience a point-of-view they could relate to and gain familiarity with during the fantastical events of the story. Rabid Reads "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
George Condo: A Collection of Etchings | Condo is typically known for bold paintings so brash as to be referred to as gonzo "artificial realism," the term the artist uses to describe his works, which by turns are meditative, wry, irreverent and fantastical, reflecting Condo's now-iconic surrealistic mash-up of old and modern masters. Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)
The colours of the alebrijes — folk-art sculptures of fantastical creatures — are gorgeous. Times, Sunday Times
It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less. Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading?
There is almost nothing about the ACU which makes it so fantastically suprior to the BDU and ACU as to require wholsesale swap-out across the Army. Weapons and Technology from the Gaming Industry? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
His demeanor, sometimes indifferent, sometimes disgruntled, works fantastically in Hud.
The sight gags are fantastically inventive, the detailing in the set design and costume stunning.
Your own dance company is fantastically successful at creating new work, where other companies struggle.
But it was gripping and clever and fantastically erudite, and people became a little obsessed.
When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
By the late 16th century, most fashionable patrons favoured fantastical Mannerist pieces for their displays.
This is supposed to aid the memory as well as being fantastically friendly. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
It really is a miracle of engineering that anything so huge, so luxurious, so fantastically adapted to the health and comfort of human beings, should be able to "hurtle" (pardon the word) through space. Podkayne Of Mars
One of the things we had in common was that work was fantastically important and fiction was important. Times, Sunday Times
There were four or five players that just stood out fantastically well and set the heartbeat of the team. Times, Sunday Times
It's steeped in history and it's got a fantastically loyal support. Times, Sunday Times
The best thing about these books is that they are steeped in fantastically interesting and authentic historical detail. The Enemies of Jupiter: Summary and book reviews of The Enemies of Jupiter by Caroline Lawrence.
They're spendy, but everything there is fantastically comfortable, and lasts basically forever.
It was black or dark like tar, and sentineled to the east and north by tall, dark pines — the serried spears of armed and watchful giants, as they now seemed to him — ogres almost — so gloomy, suspicious and fantastically erratic was his own mood in regard to all this. An American Tragedy
Recognizing this contradiction, it is nonetheless possible to see connections between the fantastical and realistic aspects of rap by analysing the role of fantasies in a subculture.
It's that despite all of this, she knows how to throw out a genuinely good electronic album that is more fun than fantastical, more brain than brawn.
Usually, Margaret is much too ‘smart’ to believe something so fantastical, so unreal.
But the plots also feature fantastical creatures and mythical locations. Times, Sunday Times
What it is: The latest from acclaimed French filmmaker Francois Ozon ( "Swimming Pool"), "Ricky" is a fantastical drama about a family with a new addition: a baby boy born with a little something special. Check Out ‘The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus,’ ‘Police, Adjective’ And ‘Ricky’ In This Week’s unLimited » MTV Movies Blog
On the musician's new disc, the organ pieces are fantastically inventive.
It was a fantastically exciting opportunity that seemed just too good to miss. Times, Sunday Times
Why should these companies bring jobs back here, when over there they can roust thousands from dorms at midnight and make them use toxic chemicals for 12 hours a day for very low pay to make iPhone screens that he can sell at fantastically high prices? Dave Johnson: China Is Very "Business-Friendly"
This is a fantastically enjoyable wartime thriller, well researched and totally gripping. Times, Sunday Times
The place was doing sprightly business on a random Thursday night in autumn and the staff are fantastically well informed and very relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum. Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
He then delivers a fantastically smug grin and the clip ends. Times, Sunday Times
Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject.
I. iii.53 (410,5) Are ye fantastical] By _fantastical_, he means creatures of fantasy or imagination; the question is, Are these real beings before us, or are we deceived by illusions of fancy? Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Service is 'fantastically unstuffy', and the set lunch 'unbeatable'. Times, Sunday Times
Male pantalong yari sa kambas may fantastically kumplikadong genitalia, na mayroon nagbago sa pagtawid ang mga komplikadong vaginal canals ng babae pantalong yari sa kambas, na nagbago hugis tribuson bilang tugon sa lalaki pantalong yari sa kambas na makatawag pansin sa sapilitang pagsasama. Ideonexus.com »2,009» Disyembre
The entire fantastical creation was crashing about her like a cardboard city in an earthquake. COMPULSION
There were fantastically dressed people under the trees and in the distance there was a glimpse of the turrets of a castle. The Secret Garden
The semi-desert landscape has been sculpted into fantastical shapes by wind and water. Times, Sunday Times
These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok, or the sound of them and their audience at least, rising exuberantly from the theatre next door to contend with the wisdom of the later panelists: a vaguely fantastical backdrop to musings on fantasy. Brian Ruckley · Alt.Fiction 2008: Getting There, Being There, Getting Back
Her painting career begins with a huge fantastical mural of historical, religious, and cultural imagery and ‘progresses’ to paintings of fractured worlds to diptychs and triptychs to a final sinister palimpsest.
The 127 rooms are equally quirky, fun and fantastical. Times, Sunday Times
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
He has to carry the whole thing and does fantastically well. The Sun
IV. iii.163 (113,4) [if the old fantastical duke] Sir Thomas Hammer reads, _the_ odd _fantastical duke_, but _old_ is a common word of aggravation in ludicrous language, as, _there was_ old _revelling_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Like haute couture, haute horlogerie thrives on ever more complex and fantastical creations. Times, Sunday Times
Marlowe's poem is like the fantastical and varied grotesques that decorate the borders of a painting composed according to more classical rules of art.
He produced some altarpieces, but his main speciality was in small cabinet pictures with historical, mythological, or allegorical themes as well as genre and fantastical scenes, such as the witches' sabbath.
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The Magnetic Fields 'eighth album, in stores today, begins with a howling, surfy stormer of a song, its title and only lyrics, "Three-way!" repeated three times in three minutes, accompanying a fantastically distant piano roll fit neatly behind a twanging guitar line. Magnetic Personality Disorder
Amid an array of colourful costumes, fantastical adventures, nursery-rhyme characters, audience participation and a bundle of singalong songs, Beep gets his big wheels turning and saves the day.
This is a fantastically dark, trippy comedy.
The film utilized animation to fantastically weave between past and present, reality and film.
It came o'er my ear like the sweet sound of newly arriving Bard freshman eager to experience this spectacular operatic production comedy, romance and drama set against Strauss's brilliant orchestral score, whilst relishing other rich works of literature and honing their writing skills in this, their first fantastical college orientation. C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....
Something about that voice complimenting a woman's melons is ... fantastically creepie Deep In The Lab by Walter Bishop
He's playing fantastically and grass courts are his favourite surface. The Sun
Around the edges of the room, behind the forest of illusory ferns and gingkoes and cycads, other extinct species lurked, here a hyaenodon with its vicious teeth; there a massetognathus like a big, skinny rat; watching it carefully, a dog-like direwolf; all part of an anachronistic conglomeration, a fantastical celebration of the weird and wild things the need to survive had come up with over the eons. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic
The Magnetic Fields 'eighth album, in stores today, begins with a howling, surfy stormer of a song, its title and only lyrics, "Three-way!" repeated three times in three minutes, accompanying a fantastically distant piano roll fit neatly behind a twanging guitar line. Magnetic Personality Disorder
Of buildings strong, albeit of paper hight, [A] confronting with massy contrast the lighter, older, more fantastically shrouded one named of Harcourt, with the cheerful Crown Office Row (place of my kindly engendure), right opposite the stately stream which washes the garden foot with her yet scarcely trade-polluted waters and seems but just weaned from Twickenham Na? es! Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
In Bayadere, the physical effort rather than the evocation of a fantastical image dominated, so that the entrance of the Shades felt more militaristic than shadowy.
He was, however, fantastically popular in the London area for his regular shows on Capital Radio.
From the open ground in the front of the building, their eye could pursue a considerable part of the course of the river Douglas, which approached the town from the south-west, bordered by a line of hills fantastically diversified in their appearance, and in many places covered with copsewood, which descended towards the valley, and formed a part of the tangled and intricate woodland by which the town was surrounded. Castle Dangerous
But all the clips make the stories look fantastical, unreal.
However, the plot itself seemed thin, with much of it involving fantastical stories told by the main characters to an unbelieving lawyer.
In fact, her fantastically sculpted features rather give her the look of something hewn from granite. Times, Sunday Times
Mormonism's believability problem is that its fantastical events are too recent. paisley henosis, I'm going to disagree slightly with the concept of creating a Xenu: On Ice performance. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
I thought Derrida was fantastically interesting - I still do.
The actor's scene-stealing climactic rendition of Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get It On," in particular, fantastically fills the soundscape of your home theater setup.
In fact, her fantastically sculpted features rather give her the look of something hewn from granite. Times, Sunday Times
On the racks were items for fall, half-practical, half-fantastical: silk-lined camouflage corduroy pants for $298; one of those big blanketlike belted cardigans (part acrylic) that everyone wears now instead of jackets, for $365; and a “pom-pom” bag, resembling an oversize Tribble, for $950. She's Mayoress of Tent City!
Antarctic icecap which is, for the most part, frozen determinedly rigid, Greenland in summer sits poised on the knife-edge between liquid and solid, a world of blues and whites, a landscape which in summer melts into fantastical sculptures which can last no longer than an afternoon. Home | Mail Online
They all interact with each other in fantastically interesting ways, probing with their mandibles and antennae, and as far as I can tell, they never complain about the work. In Exile: 50 posts from March 2006
All the booze will be cooked out during baking and the result should be a dark, dense but very moist cake with a fantastically moreish flavour. The Sun
I have read books about space and time, about Schrodingers cat, and about wavicles, Busard ram jets and all manner of fantastical contraptions to propel us at immense speed through the vast depths of space.
During the nineteenth century jobbers and nurserymen looked after private gardens on yearly or seasonal contracts and rented out fantastical floral arrangements for balls such as the one a Mrs. West gave in 1818.
Romanesque illuminators paid particular attention to the elaboration of the initial, which might be richly decorated with fantastically distorted human or animal figures.
I suspect what he does is almost instantly to analyze the pattern, identify universals of logic and conation, go on from there to reconstruct the whole mental configuration-as if his nervous system included not only sensitivity to the radiation of others, but an organic semantic computer fantastically beyond anything that Technic civilization has built. The Day Of Their Return
This same sort of hereditary cultural succession became fantastically popular among early modern writers.
You have to get through an awful lot of terrible dialogue and acting, however, plus a lot of fantastically insincere waffle about the environment, to get to those spectacular scenes.
It is a fantastically crafted action movie.
For crying out loud, at the box office right now, I'm sure Shyamalan's film will be defeated by another fantastical movie that expects its audience to believe that exposure to gamma rays can turn an ordinary man into a hulky green hybrid monster! So, Mother Earth Doesn't Like Us Anymore: My Review of The Happening (Spoilers)
All the booze will be cooked out during baking and the result should be a dark, dense but very moist cake with a fantastically moreish flavour. The Sun
And yet all I can think is how a nutritionally deprived Irish immigrant, a backwoodsman and a 16th-century carpenter managed to possess such fantastically white teeth.
We remember him talking at the dining table, heaping his plate with shavings from a tiny carving, a fantastical animal or human figure or an intricately precise puzzle.
We're surrounded by fantastically supportive people. The Sun
She reveals herself to be a catchy and fantastical songwriter, who's actually a great keyboardist as well.
But the self-portrait can take a fantastical variety of forms. Times, Sunday Times
The fantastical woodland lodges will provide perfect family accommodation sleeping five people. The Sun
In a moment she would open her eyes to discover that it had all been an incredible, fantastical dream.
The method, as contradictions accumulate, is then rather fantastically hypostatized as the efflux of decadence itself.
This worked fantastically well in Iran after the revolution. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of witches casting evil spells is itself fantastical. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not really the kind of guy who goes to theatreland, despite there being a direct bus route connecting me to the breathing heart and soul of a fantastical array of productions.
It was very blowy and some of the greens were tricky but I hit the ball fantastically well and missed only four or five greens which is pretty good out there.
The final act, back in the States, is even more fantastical, with an added twist, befitting such a corkscrew plot, which doesn't make a blind bit of sense.
They test fantastically strong, just as the seller advertised and they are going in my soon to be finished homemade preamp. Archive 2008-03-01
They're coveted by a generation too young to remember the designer's heyday, when she was one of the brightest stars in the fashion firmament, turning out exuberant, fantastical creations.
[2854] In another place he laughs those men to scorn, that think longis syrupis expugnare daemones et animi phantasmata, they can purge fantastical imaginations and the devil by physic. Anatomy of Melancholy
Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity.
Some of the plot's key assumptions are extremely unlikely, others fantastically illogical.
In fact, her fantastically sculpted features rather give her the look of something hewn from granite. Times, Sunday Times
The actual paint is slopped and dripped and patched and layered and dabbed and spattered and scumbled and misted, sometimes in a natural-ish pattern, other times more fantastically.
Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown.
But the self-portrait can take a fantastical variety of forms. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to me that fantastically imaginative fiction tends to be lumped in with the whole science fiction genre.
She must be a fantastically tough negotiator. Times, Sunday Times
The treasure - which includes a large number of sword pommels and hilt plates as well as a quantity of silver - has been hailed as "a fantastically important discovery" which will redefine perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England. Undefined
Remind yourself that the right filter can be fantastically flattering, and she probably doesn't look that good in real life. Times, Sunday Times
Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to flog you the little red book (which is, obviously, both red and little).
Dry-run testing all systems and sub-systems in every conceivable scenario is fantastically time-consuming.
And I thought about how "a horse's hoof is more delicate than it seems" and I am achingly delicate and fantastically strong. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: If you go straight long enough, you end up where you were.
But the charm of the film might be how absolutely contrived it is, from its highly stylized, atemporal look and feel to the tortuous backstory that informs its fantastical events.
All the booze will be cooked out during baking and the result should be a dark, dense but very moist cake with a fantastically moreish flavour. The Sun
Wat for should the only true God, who is therefore fantastical clever, say only one wife, heya, which is terrifical stupid? Tai-Pan
The fantastically-named Congo forest mouse Deomys ferrugineus (sometimes called the Link mouse) is another similar long-footed form of uncertain phylogenetic position. Archive 2006-03-01
He then delivers a fantastically smug grin and the clip ends. Times, Sunday Times
(I just say they can't be defining criteria; taken too literally, by the way, you'd get the kind of science fiction that I really hate: where have to skim pages of pseudo-scientific bullshit to explain fantastical devices). Putting SciFi in its place
Most of the MPs stick within the rules of course - but wasn't it the most amazing coincidence that before we knew that the Prime Minister was going to 'chicken out' of calling an election please notice that this blog does not use 'bottle out' because of the lavatorial connotations of the phrase MPs were distributing thousands of glossy leaflets and newspapers telling their constituents how fantastically hard they have been working. Archive 2007-11-01
Try Rentboy Diaries, or the fantastically fruity Girl With A One-Track Mind, and a whole Indecent Blogging empire.
To watch about 200 people, women on one side and men on the other, dressed in fantastically vibrant cloth and listening intently was an out of body experience. Archive 2008-12-01
Much was required of him in a world where a high fantastical acrobatic mountebankery was almost a matter of ceremony, where riders stand on their heads in passing their rivals and cooks punt a casserole over their heads to the wall behind by way of giving notice: much was required of him and he proved worthy. George Borrow The Man and His Books
We all got fantastically tiddly on the local brews.
As in every culture, where all other Indians in the story are proud and honourable, Emiliano happens to be a horror of almost fantastical proportions.
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The full out karaoke sequences are fantastically bizarre.
You walk on stage and you feel that people expect you to play fantastically. Times, Sunday Times
And also these fantastically named concrete blocks: tetrapods, dolosse, akmons, Xblocs and A-jacks. Archive 2007-01-01
Its tone is one of parlour room titillation blended with out and out Lynchian weirdness - a fantastically inventive and darkly funny film that unsettles and unnerves the audience.
While the movie told the vast majority of the story through the eyes of Arthur Dent, schlubby English nobody, as a way of giving the viewing audience a point-of-view they could relate to and gain familiarity with during the fantastical events of the story. Archive 2009-09-01
And though no music is heard during gameplay, it works fantastically. The Sun
From the fantastically surreal opening sequence to the finale, our characters - quirky themselves - travel from interesting place to interesting place.
The idea of witches casting evil spells is itself fantastical. Times, Sunday Times
The pistol of the gun was spiraled and gold, resembling the fantastical unicorn's horn.
These are guarded by massive metallic humanoids, who hold many weapons in their eight limbs, some identifiable as swords and axes and others too fantastical to guess at.
The second is a fantastical take on exotic botanical illustrations. Times, Sunday Times
We can take that victory and take some pleasure that we didn't play fantastically well yet were able to win. Times, Sunday Times
This is the William Morris school of socialism, generally derided as being soft-headed, old-fashioned and fantastical.
My only complain is how fantastically slow Smith is. What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
A tale of wandering, bickering exorcists who cleanse the secrets lurking in people's closets, the movie combines an ambitious sense of playful fantastical absurdism with an underlying heartbeat of melancholic mourning. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
The artist depicts himself sketching a fantastically mutated tree, seated beneath its dense canopy of leaves and vines.
My boss was fantastically supportive. The Sun
If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
While it's not the only navigation system on the market it is fantastically useful, giving you the capabilities of an in-car system, with spoken directions and more.
The people were fantastically welcoming and the atmosphere in both cities seemed relaxed. The Sun
But many toy makers are also worried that some playthings that once seemed fantastical now seem all too real.
I decided to meet her as a surprise one day and it worked fantastically well. The Sun
The four parts of the cycle have, over the past two years, been previewed to Scottish audiences and praised for their mix of the fantastical and the contemporary.
He was fantastically handsome— I just fell for him right away.
The eldest has a fantastically advanced sense of humour, sarcasm and irony. Times, Sunday Times
Bryant's book on mythology was then in vogue, and Bryant, in the fantastical manner so common in those days, found in Greek mythology what he called an arkite idolatry, pointing to Noah's deluge and the ark. Celtic Literature
Called Instant Gel, their proposal also makes use of existing water-borne organism and pollutants but this time they are to be used to set off a chemical reaction with layers of flexible gelly structures, creating fantastical island-sized foamy water lilies. Some Proposals for a Venice Lagoon Park
The music and dialogue have been fantastically mixed.
There's even a fantastically useless wall-mounted electric hob with vertically placed hotplates that seems to revel in its impracticality and urge reluctant cooks to go to the pub instead.
You shall find that of Aristotle true, nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae, they have a worm as well as others; you shall find a fantastical strain, a fustian, a bombast, a vainglorious humour, an affected style, &c., like a prominent thread in an uneven woven cloth, run parallel throughout their works. Anatomy of Melancholy
Thus, my dear, coquettes of your fascinating sex cover their persons with figgery, fantastically arranged, and call their masquerading, modesty. The Second Funeral of Napoleon
the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy
The vast majority of the time shadows were cast fantastically, from flinders of wood during their seconds-long existence after the wooden object they came from was broken, to the lump on a throat.
When the first series hit the airwaves, critics raved that its style of real-time storytelling worked fantastically well and was beautifully conceived.
Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
Later on, these same corporate infested predators got HHO generation lost in the world of cold fusion confusion with just enough funding to keep it limping along and waylayed in that fantastical way out there in a way out of the way never-never land world of a seeming, instead of a being; lost into a fantasia of never happenin '! A Bottom Up Rescue Plan for the Auto, Bank and Mortgage Companies
From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is fascinating to watch the rapid innovations in science and technology overtake their fictional anticipation and to return to our most speculative and fantastical literature to see how perceptively it anticipated the social and geopolitical transformations — and challenges — these innovations would inspire. Final Deadline Approaching: ‘American Literature’ Special Issue on SF, Fantasy, and Myth « Gerry Canavan
By accoutering herself in what others find extravagant and fantastical, Cavendish simultaneously veils and displays a multi-faceted identity to the collective gaze of the public.

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