Sentence examples for fanciful detail from inspiring English sources

Such is Anderson's way: for every note of provable precision, a more fanciful detail flutters past.

The publication of his work caused a sensation, bringing charges of embellishment and the use of fanciful detail.

The fanciful detail of the main house is also found in this building: In the bathroom, for example, paper dolls are strung from the ceiling.

In an article in The Vail Daily after Mr. Seibert's death, Mr. Eaton's son Carl added fanciful detail to the story of Vail's discovery.

In drawing upon an assortment of source material including diaries (like Andy Warhol's and Ronald Reagan's), biographies, interviews and obituaries, Mr. Brown constructs portraits that have all the immediacy of reportage, all the fanciful detail of fiction.

Quite the most striking anachronism in the article, however, is not the fanciful detail of the writers' predictions, but the very fact of their feeling so confident in the future itself; such happy divinations seem now decidedly out of date.

She fills in the blanks surrounding the death of her twin (the "shadow baby" of the title) with fanciful details.

"That's my heart right there," Mr. Thompson said of his daughter as she colored in fanciful details of the two of them and made the fingers securely overlap.

Recently, Mr. Dalmau began adding fanciful details to the tops, like sequins, eyelets and knit trim, and diversified the collection by including skirts, dresses, pants, tops and even men's wear.

Home styles that are finding favor in new-home developments include adaptations of the Shingle style house (with porches, gambrel roofs and large bay windows), the Queen Anne (with towers, turrets, wraparound porches and other fanciful details) and the Arts and Crafts house (which features exposed rafters and dormers).

One of her seemingly fanciful details, luminescent rabbits, has actually become a reality.