No sort of trouble could discourage his pen, although he incurred stinging art-world condescension when he had gallery shows of such work as, starting in the seventies, assemblages and sculptures of fanciful drawing tables.
He beams as he points out a fanciful drawing on his wall, an outsized slice of strawberry cheesecake floating on the East River by Claes Oldenburg, or a baseball in his collection signed by Babe Ruth.
Anyone can draw a fanciful line on a distorted historical map that looks like Pangaea and stake a claim.
Younger family members can spend the day in Teardrop Park, where the artist Larry Dobens will join them to draw fanciful hybrid creatures inspired by cave paintings.
But I came to believe that his intent could well be to tell fanciful stories in hopes of drawing media attention to extract settlement payments in his lawsuits.
Klitschko and Mayweather started their careers within a month of each other 18 years ago, and, while the Ukrainian's boast that he might box until he is 50 is fanciful, Mayweather's prospects of drawing alongside Marciano in boxing history also need closer examination.
The playwrights' success in drawing a stageful of flavorful reporters was not simply fanciful; the motley crew was based on real Chicago reporters, using actual names including Buddy McCue of the City News Bureau and Jack Schwartz of the Daily News.
And while Persson draws a fanciful pair of horns on the fictional architect of the murder (as does Larsson), he's quite blunt and specific in his brief: the lazy, stupid, bigoted, greedy, corrupt idiots in Sweden's bloated and ineffectual secret security police are the true culprits in this traumatizing crime, which rattles the national psyche to this day.
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.
BOCA RATON, Fla .— The 2012 GAIM conference for hedge fund professionals is drawing managers, investors and service providers from across the country this week to the opulent Boca Raton Resort and Club, a rambling pink structure replete with fanciful trimmings.
Or is there something in the female gene that draws women to fanciful dressing, whether it is elaborate hair or crazy shoes?
