Sentence examples for fanciful to consider from inspiring English sources

Behavior that seems self-destructive and high-risk is in some social milieus understandable, and it becomes positively fanciful to consider alternatives.

They can curb the 40%% increase in world energy consumption expected by 2030, but it would be fanciful to think that they could produce an overall decrease.

The advent of the decoy bottles has led the New York Police Department to consider a somewhat fanciful idea: that the police may one day be able to track not just bottles, but also individual pills.

While it might seem fanciful for one of the founding members to consider leaving the euro, there is a growing sense that no more than a couple of years from now, Rome will once again be administering its own currency.

It may sound fanciful, but the point is that it forces you to consider the different eventualities and form hypotheses. Young children help hone that kind of "counterfactual thinking" when they play pretend, which helps them to learn everything from the laws of physics to social skills.

The idea that we ought to consider actively taking control of the climate has previously seemed fanciful, if not downright dangerous.

"It might be kind of fanciful to some, but on the other hand, space travel was considered science fiction not that many decades ago".

About the politics, so much is known that it seems fanciful to claim, as the catalogue does, that the relevance of Picasso's communism to his art is little considered.

More than one person has even compared the removal of "The Rose" from the studio on Fillmore Street, via an opening cut below a window, to an episiotomy, which is not so fanciful when you consider the work's difficult gestation.

That may seem fanciful to some.

Is it fanciful to imagine Katherine Ryan taking on the job?