Sentence examples for fanciful account from inspiring English sources

It is not a fanciful account of the way history is read, though.

First published in 1980, "A Liar's Autobiography" was a deliberately fanciful account.

This may seem a fanciful account of the way history is written.

As personified by the author of "Einstein's Dreams" in this fanciful account of how the Supreme Being cobbled together the cosmos, he's a good sleeper.

In a fanciful account of his art collecting written in the early 1950s he wrote: "To Nero's credit he loathed war and loved peace.

The other, more linear, resembles a bit of ancient ironwork, a butterfly or a fanciful account of the body's internal organs.

That structural deficit leaves state officials to choose between spending cuts, tax increases, borrowing or fanciful accounting.

Facebook's definition of "active" is nowhere near as problematic as Groupon's fanciful accounting, and it does not appear that Facebook is trying to deceive investors.

The central theme is the exploits of Alexander the Great, and the narrative includes fanciful accounts of his adventures in foreign lands and of the outlandish peoples he encounters.

This is one reason that Toohey's fanciful evolutionary account of boredom is unsatisfying.

While the majority of historians feel that Hannibal's action was deliberate, some have called this account fanciful, and claim that the actions of the day represent either the natural curvature that occurs when a broad front of infantry marches forward, or the bending back of the Carthaginian center from the shock action of meeting the heavily massed Roman center.