Sentence examples for fanciful way from inspiring English sources

Swish-swish, and a thick, blue-black helmet-headed creature — named, in the fanciful way of the dragonfly world, a slaty skimmer — danced in the fabric.

The play captures the fanciful way Lamarr and Antheil fashioned their invention, staging mock battles with toy airplanes and ashtrays as they conceptualized the theory.

As that fictitious subplot illustrates, Mr. Block has found an unusually roundabout, fanciful way of telling the story of one family's genetic destiny.

That suspicion, first raised when Diana accuses her husband of having murdered their mentally disturbed son, becomes an obsession with David when she initiates his teenage daughter into her fanciful way of thinking.

Perhaps the most commonly used literary device, the term is defined as "an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something," in which that "something" can be absolutely anything from the weather ("it's raining cats and dogs") to the entire world, as the Bard once famously penned, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players".

"In some fanciful way I see him as model for a writer: fabulous balance; brave; and the way he took the ball so close to the opponent, inviting the lunge, and as soon as they lunged, they just lunged into space, and he was gone …" With The Light of Amsterdam, Park, like his hero, dips his shoulder and accelerates into space.

He also found fanciful ways to invoke bipartisanship.

The 10-year anniversary will be marked in a number of fanciful ways, the most appropriate perhaps being various commemorative bottlings.

A reporter on TV, unable to give up the suspense, tries to think up fanciful ways in which John McCain could reach 270 electoral votes.

So an endless parade of consultants and political opportunists come up with fanciful ways of preventing people becoming homeless despite the ever-decreasing housing benefit budget and the ever-increasing rents.

Myachi is the brainchild of Steven Ochs, 36, a former stockbroker from Larchmont, N.Y., who had in mind a college drinking game where players tried to one-up each other flipping a cigarette lighter in fanciful ways.