Sentence examples for fanciful work from inspiring English sources

"L'Olimpiade," though a more fanciful work, is also remarkable.

"Inglourious Basterds" is, as history, a florid and fanciful work of revisionism, no closer to the actuality of Paris than, say, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's cloying, everyone's-a-tourist vision of the metropolis in "Amélie".

Lacking the provocative sexual punch and catchy visual vocabulary of her husband's work, Ms. Feinstein's more abstract and fanciful work is seen by many to pale next to Mr. Currin's.

I read up on Barrymore's life — particularly in his entertainingly fraudulent and entirely ghostwritten autobiography and in "Good Night, Sweet Prince," an equally fanciful work, devised, soon after the star's death, by his close friend Gene Fowler.

"Two Sisters and a Piano" is a more straightforward and less fanciful work than Mr. Cruz's earlier play at the Public, "Dancing on Her Knees," the tale of a transvestite and two tangoing angels.

For all its historical referents, it's a fanciful work, based not in the world but in motion pictures.

You wish there were more such unpredictably fanciful works.

I was drawn to the Heron American Craft Gallery, which features fanciful works and quirky gifts, and the Foreign Cargo Gallery, with exotic items from all over.

Those eternal picture book fixtures, adorable ducklings and idyllic clambakes, do not feature in Chris Van Allsburg's darkly fanciful works, nor do the friendly steam shovels and tugboats of storybooks past.

Still, Mr. Thibaudet's playing was always elegant, and in deceptively fanciful works like "The Dreamy Fish" and the wildly inventive "Sonatine Bureaucratique," he conveyed a beguiling quality of wistful zest.

This roadside attraction is owned by Tom Lakenen and features fanciful works of art made of scrap iron.