Sentence examples for fancy thoughts from inspiring English sources

My literary-minded colleagues, however, would imagine the store as a retreat filled with days of quiet reading and fancy thoughts of opening their own bookstores.

It is that lack of pretension that leaves him so natural and likable, or trustworthy – so long as we don't start developing fancy thoughts on him as "an actor".

Ms. Ponsot grinned, perhaps at another unduly fancy thought.

"People think, 'That's a fancy thought' — and no, no I'm not thinking at all, I'm just talking".

In summer, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of sushi, possibly because the heat makes the thought of cooked food all but unbearable, but probably because the scents and brininess and marine richness of great sushi can make you feel at one with the sea, at least until you have to reach for your credit card - and a second credit card, in case the first one doesn't go through.

IN THE spring an Asian leader's fancy turns to thoughts of firing missiles.

Fancy tweeting your thoughts on to an LED-lit cocktail dress?

Ah, spring, when even a misanthrope's fancy turns to thoughts of love, or at least the vicarious experience of it.

It is Spring, and a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of flash drives.

I also recall being smitten with a bit of pride at the thought that we were raising children who had a hunger for the "letter of the day" before the morning's first bowl of Cheerios, or before their fancy turned toward thoughts of Ironman or the Transformers.

Here it becomes "A Museum of Phrases" (that is the evening's subtitle), an almost random catalog of splendid fancies and dark thoughts from the writer Elias Canetti.