Sentence examples for fanciful wit from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, film cannot live on foodie jokes alone, and "The Trip" would be just too mild and miniature, like a baby scallop, were it not for its one, vaunting thrust of fanciful wit.

The title of Mark Siegel's "Moving House" contains its own morsel of verbal wit, with a double meaning that winks at the fanciful plot.

In The Mistress (1647, 1656) he exaggerated John Donne's "metaphysical wit"—jarring the reader's sensibilities by unexpectedly comparing quite different things into what later tastes felt was fanciful poetic nonsense.

Fanciful ideas?

Again, fanciful.

Sound fanciful?

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Rather, imagination is displayed in nonfictional prose in the fanciful invention of decorative details, in digressions practiced as an art and assuming a character of pleasant nonchalance, in establishing a familiar contact with the reader through wit and humour.

Is this fanciful?

This is not fanciful.

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