Sentence examples for fanciful origin from inspiring English sources

Rudyard Kipling dreamed up the fanciful origin myths of the Just So Stories to put his daughter to sleep.

In adulthood, Herriman frequently covered his tight curls with a hat, and invented fanciful origin stories that attributed his light brown skin to years living under the sun of Greece.

On Sunday Mr. Borle, a Tony Award nominee for "Legally Blonde," will open in "Peter and the Starcatcher," the Rick Elice play that provides a fanciful origin story for Peter Pan and his Neverland cohort.

I tire of hearing fanciful origin explanations by pagan scientists who discount God and make leaps of faith to comets, aliens or life which just popped out of nowhere by chance and grew to the complexities we experience today without any design or intelligence but somehow "knew" to evolve upward rather than sitting there and amounting to nothing.

Along the way, I heard several fanciful variations on the origin of the term fourth pipe.

Fanciful stories about the origin of roulette include its invention by the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, by a French monk, and by the Chinese, from whom it was supposedly transmitted to France by Dominican monks.

For the next 150 years the study of the Chinese language was overwhelmingly in the hands of missionaries, merchants, and diplomats to the "Middle Kingdom", amateurs all, with several insights into the language mixed with fanciful speculations about its origin, nature, and development.

But there's really no need for fanciful comparisons: the fact is, The Origin of Love is simply a good record by one of the UK's more undervalued pop songwriters.

Despite their fanciful appearance, the poodles' cut has practical origins.

(By the way, the title of Jones's book comes from the sixth edition of The Origin of Species in which Darwin, in somewhat fanciful mood, put forward the idea that bears, which sometimes swim with their mouths open to catch fish, could one day evolve into whale-like creatures).

Both were fanciful concepts initially which enjoys ups and downs since their origin.