Sentence examples for fanciful men from inspiring English sources

The "prediction" derives from a letter he wrote in 1704 "to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end" – even back then this nonsense was clearly common.

In predicting this he said, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail".

It is not clear whether this was an attempt by Newton to put an end to, in his own words, the rash conjectures of fanciful men who frequently predicted the end of time, and by so doing discrediting sacred prophesies, which commonly fail.

Fanciful sketch about man coming out of a wedding reception and meeting the Ancient Mariner.

By Robert Benchley The New Yorker, January 14 , 1933P. 15 Fanciful sketch about man coming out of a wedding reception and meeting the Ancient Mariner.

One of them now provides Colegate with her title and a fanciful epigraph: "A man that Studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in the Wilderness".

That may sound fanciful for a man who may still be unseeded, who not long ago had such a serious back injury, and who does not know yet whether there is to be an adverse reaction to his efforts of the past two weeks.

Fanciful story about two men who meet each other on the street.

Connolly is a man who can do anything and go anywhere, a gringo who is welcomed among the natives, a man both fanciful and wise - one whose life seems charmed until it ends in the confused aftermath of an ambush in the jungle.

To Mackay's list Surowiecki adds the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, and the less well-known but more amusing bowling bubble of the 1950s, caused by a fanciful calculation that every man, woman and child in the US would bowl for two hours a week, 52 weeks a year.

For now that question seems fanciful, like asking how a man who has been getting fatter for decades would do in a marathon.