Sentence examples for fancy notion from inspiring English sources

And I do wonder if, even if some of those who have been writing about independence don't view themselves as that kind of writer – the "artist": what kind of a fancy notion is that?

Now it had become like any other raucous boozer, and all fancy notions about "dining out" had been abandoned.

He was also admired by David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau but the empiricists had little time for such fancy notions and Nietzsche dismissed him as "a bore" and accused him of interposing logic between instinct and the world.

Is it true that before Arsene Wenger pitched up at Highbury with his fancy notions about nutrition, breakfast at Highbury consisted of pie and chips washed down with lager?

"Where we're at in America is that we fancy the notion of rehabilitation.

"Where we're at in America," he said, "if we're gonna be brutally honest, is that we fancy the notion of rehabilitation.

He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature; had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions... ..

An 1888 issue of "Fabrics, Fancy Goods & Notions", described one bustle as being made of muslin-covered wires that "cross each other to form an excellent spring, allowing the bustle to close easily as the wearer is seated & promptly resuming its shape upon arising".

The German word "Einfall," meaning a sudden notion or fancy, contains the image of something dropping precipitously into the mind.

Lest someone think that my notions are fancy ones, let me put down what seem to me the minimum requirements for anyone's living quarters.

But wasn't the whole notion of a fancy Belgian anti-bourgeois provocateur running the Fiorello LaGuardia Opera Company a bit surreal in the first place?