Sentence examples for fanciful claims from inspiring English sources

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But he also made a string of fanciful claims that alienated sceptics all the more.

Once the charges had been filed, Ofshe believed, the sisters pasted over the inconsistencies in their original accusations with ever more fanciful claims.

The fundamental charge – that BBC reporting resulted in a false balance in which fanciful claims got the same billing as serious insights – is not true.

The Economist had an interesting piece on that subject this week, a useful corrective to some of the more fanciful claims made about Twitter, Facebook and other sites.

We aim to inform our audiences, not seek the approval of politicians or pundits … The fundamental charge – that BBC reporting resulted in a false balance in which fanciful claims got the same billing as serious insights – is not true".

That, at any rate, is one of the fanciful claims made by "The Saddest Music in the World," a beguiling and hallucinatory black-and-white musical directed by Guy Maddin.

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This may all be fanciful speculation.

This fanciful claim, however, clearly belongs more in the realm of fairytale.

This makes a public mockery of Mr Bush's (admittedly always fanciful) claim to be a new sort of politician, who does not abide by Washington deal-doing.

"She [MacGregor] made a fanciful claim that 300 people had attended KinKids support group meetings – but I've never seen a meeting like that with 300 people present.

Alas, Dr. Young's memoirs do not address another oft-repeated, seemingly fanciful claim about Brady: that, as Parker Morell puts it in his book, doctors discovered Diamond Jim's stomach to be "six times as large as normal".

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