Sentence examples for fanciful book from inspiring English sources

Just as Israel today chooses to explain its land "rights" on the basis of that ancient, patched-together, fanciful book.

Mr Mann's exploration of this puzzle revolves around the president's extraordinary (though entirely above-board) relationship with a semi-academic, Suzanne Massie, the author of a rather fanciful book about Russian culture called "Land of the Firebird".

During the Watergate scandal, the man best known for his fanciful books about oobleck and grinches publicly called for the President of the United States to resign.

The performance piece, in which an eccentrically costumed artist who styles herself Lulu Lolo is transformed into an avenging Spider Woman, is documented in a fanciful picture book that captures the zaniness of a camp comedy act.

That was May, when ABC presented a mini-series inspired by James Gurney's fanciful Dinotopia books.

The cellist Steven Isserlis has written fanciful children's books about Beethoven and Handel, and perhaps he's thinking of doing something with Schumann.

The basic conceit on which Ackroyd's fable rests is -- like everything in this book -- fanciful.

The melding of genres neatly echoes the blurring of the sexes, and for that matter the mixture of pseudo-history and fanciful fiction in the book.

The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: "How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?" Panic in a Suitcase, by Yelena Akhtiorskaya (Riverhead).

While making a BBC television programme about Paddy's journey in 2008, the explorer and film-maker Benedict Allen was able to authenticate many of the elaborate and seemingly fanciful descriptions in the book.

Toward the end of this collection we are reminded how close to destruction the symbol of the presidency may have come once again, on Sept. 11.A "Meet the Press" transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney recounting the day, along with an excerpt from the report of the 9/11 commission, makes clear why we can't play on the lawn of the White House like the figures on the fanciful cover of this book.