Sentence examples for fanciful act from inspiring English sources

"The layman who learned some of his religion from [mainstream] clerics think of jihad as a fanciful act, conducted far away from him.

So today's Muslims are not being completely fanciful when they act and speak as though Shariah can structure a constitutional state subject to the rule of law.

Longtime Florida visitors remember the park for its fanciful trained-bird acts, like cockatoos pedaling miniature bicycles, but the new site, which opened June 28, is built to compete with Orlando-scale theme parks like SeaWorld.

Fanciful playlet in two acts based on news item saying that maternal love is lacking when the presence of manganese is omitted from mother's food.

By Frank Sullivan The New Yorker, May 9 , 1931 P. 19Fanciful playlet in two acts based on news item saying that maternal love is lacking when the presence of manganese is omitted from mother's food.

That prediction may be a bit fanciful.

They can be politically pointed ("Senator Crapsey"), theatre-related ("Othello, Last Act"), or just plain fanciful ("Summer Accident Making All Men Kin").

For another, Mr. Carey's balancing act of real and wittily fanciful elements is so ambitious that it seems headed for a higher pinnacle than it ever reaches.

"It is not, I think, fanciful to say that such meetings are both Acts of Oblivion and Acts of Remembrance".

In an embarrassing ruling, the Information Tribunal found that Britain's foremost group of galleries was "mistaken" and "somewhat fanciful" in its use of Freedom of Information Act to avoid revealing details of the lucrative deal.

A less successful comment is a work that brings the viewer into Hitler's bunker in the last moments of the war, imagines Eva Braun's sex act with Hitler, and presents a fanciful and sentimental narrative of her mental life.