Sentence examples for border on the fanciful from inspiring English sources

Her fresh observations occasionally border on the fanciful, as when she divines personalities based on photographs (her assessment of Strindberg's mother: "sensuous, stubborn, and implacably stupid").

Prideaux, his latest biographer, shares this passion for firsthand impressions, lamenting the reductive image of him as the dour misogynist who wrote "Miss Julie". Her fresh observations occasionally border on the fanciful, as when she divines personalities based on photographs (her assessment of Strindberg's mother: "sensuous, stubborn, and implacably stupid").

Sherwood's character reference had bordered on the fanciful, and relied upon a damning truth.

For this reason, the course designer Sue Benson and her team have worked on the fanciful layout for five years.

Some border on the surreal.

Their exchanges sometimes border on the trite.

Some riders border on the ridiculous.

Lay out the border on the wall.

Cut a border on the card.

But he has struggled the last four years, falling outside the top 125, and it borders on fanciful to suggest that Janzen could jump over the 143 golfers ahead of him to actually win the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus — $9 million cash, $1 million deferred — that will go to the overall points leader after the Tour Championship, the last of the four tournaments.

Some bordered on the absurd.