Sentence examples for fanciful time from inspiring English sources

It could not be uglier, and yet the wallpaper is a novelty that visitors appreciate, evidence of a family with no pressing interest in addressing obvious problems of decor, and also proof of a happy time, an exuberant, fanciful time in American history that spawned exuberant and fanciful wallpaper.

The country is being asked to vote in November for television commercials because only in the fanciful time zone of a television commercial can the American democracy still be said to exist.

This could seem fanciful or time wasting when telling a big story in a small space; but he picked his spots.

So, too, have leagues for other sports like basketball and football; for example, a fanciful new "time travel" campaign for the National Basketball Association features players like Steve Nash.

The carvings themselves have gotten more fanciful over time, to the chagrin of tradition-minded natives.

I need you to set aside your USB gadgets and your fanciful past times, and to apply your skills to this very real problem.

It sounded fanciful at the time.

Certainly, that is India's hope, even if it seemed fanciful at the time.

It might be pie-in-the-sky thinking, but then chasing after Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol, Howard and Nash in many ways seemed fanciful at the time.

This story was found in a bakhar, a Marathi literary form that recounts colourful histories, and may seem a little fanciful for our times.

Many of the subjects raised during the session were so fanciful that at times it felt like a discussion of how to clone a unicorn, and indeed half the presenters moonlight as science fiction writers.