Sentence examples for childish fancy from inspiring English sources

I remember her reading aloud to me a children's illustrated edition of Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," probably a glorified comic book, illustrated with fanciful drawings designed to stimulate childish fancy.

The group consists of - Jaxon Hall, or The White Binder, who is the leader of the gang, Nick Nygard, or The Red Vision, whom Paige harboured a childish fancy for, The Black Diamond (Ezekiel Saenz), The Silent Bell (Nadine Arnett), The Martyred Muse Eliza Rentonn) and the Chained Fury (Danica Panic).

As the finer flickers of "Dark Shadows" prove, he is an alchemist of childish fancies, bent over his creations like Edward Lear, and muttering to himself with secret glee.

McElhinney manages to convey both the earthiness of Sonya — she seems completely the toughened young woman of the soil — and her readiness to yield to childish fancies.

But I didn't then, and you'd be surprised by the number of people in and out of establishment psychoanalysis who hold to these childish fancies about their royal descent".

It is dangerous to associate imagination only with childish play and fancy, while excluding it from goal-directed activity.

You do want the typography of your resume to look good, but you want to avoid fonts that are excessively fancy or childish.

Its five-year run on the Internet will forever be remembered, much the same way that people of a certain age still remember Suprnova and TorrentSpy, but its time has come; it's nothing but a distraction now, whose childish remarks about how those fancy American laws have no sway in Sweden now seem so long ago.

Who goes there: Prince Harry was spotted there last year Survival kit: This year's theme is Childish Things, so elaborate and wacky fancy dress is essential.

It gleefully skewers the tortured metaphors of lovers' flights of fancy and traffics unapologetically in the childish, tongue-twisting pleasures of alliteration.

People buy fancy dress shoes they never wear, yet feel embarrassed by the childish designs and branding on most sneakers.