"Fanciful" might be putting it mildly.
Though the psychedelic arabesques in Milhazes' work suggest flower power, her fanciful abstractions are actually inspired by the rhythms of her hometown, Rio de Janeiro.
The law then, and now, also requires the attorney general to certify "in writing under oath" that the surveillance is legal under FISA, not some fanciful theory of executive power.
Powered by fanciful hydrogen-based propulsion systems that have yet to be invented, the Ener-G-Force envisions a fossil fuel-free future.
With two days left of his summer holidays, imaginative Jeremiah Hazelnut dreams of magical powers and fanciful adventures, while exploring the strange woods near his home.
Until the 19th century, the greatest thinkers in medicine (Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus) turned to supernatural powers, superstition, fanciful spirits and energies to fill the holes in their medical theories.
But the idea that Enron's core business was producing and transporting power seems as fanciful as anything else Enron ever said about its business.
That might sound fanciful.
The latter few might seem fanciful, but we should not be complacent.
But an international force with the power to disarm was as fanciful then as it is now, as the example of the world's response to the Iranian nuclear programme shows.
They are projections in a liminal space, Golem-like in power yet manifestly human, seemingly fanciful yet based on historical figures or archetypes.
