Sentence examples for all that fanciful from inspiring English sources

The phrase "all that fanciful" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of something being overly imaginative or whimsical, but the construction is awkward.
Example: "The story was interesting, but it was all that fanciful for my taste."
Alternatives: "so imaginative" or "quite whimsical".

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Maybe not all that fanciful.

But perhaps Australia's claim to be the best in the world is not all that fanciful.

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During 1972 Fidel Castro dropped in with a few socialist ideas and the cardinal gave him 10,000 Bibles to distribute in Cuba: not all that a fanciful notion as Castro had been educated by the Jesuits.

Given all that, it might seem fanciful for the regime to imagine that it can reconquer the whole country.

The claim by the journalist Julie Burchill that "we are all children of Thatcher and McLaren" was not that fanciful.

Others considered that fanciful.

'Alice on Ice' For this year's visit to the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts, the Moscow Stars on Ice have come up with "Alice on Ice," a skated ballet version of the Lewis Carroll classic, complete with all the fanciful characters that inhabit "Wonderland" and "The Looking Glass".

In drawing upon an assortment of source material including diaries (like Andy Warhol's and Ronald Reagan's), biographies, interviews and obituaries, Mr. Brown constructs portraits that have all the immediacy of reportage, all the fanciful detail of fiction.

Sophisticated information, climate-control and fireextinguishing systems (remember, the ancient version is said to have burned down) complete the picture of a state-of-the-art institution.If that all sounds fanciful in the context of a teeming, bedraggled port city; well, it is.

The series, which chronicles a fanciful, not-all-that-alternate-from-reality version of the slacker paradise of Portland, Ore .(and which gave rise to hit viral videos like "Dream of the '90s" ), has become a modest hit for IFC.

Legitimizing Violence, Rewarding War Criminals Once you get past all the fanciful lies, rhetoric and rationalizations, the invasion of Iraq was just like any other war: it was about killing -- and teaching young men and women to believe that it's morally acceptable to take the life of another human being, that the supposed ends justify the homicidal means.

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