Sentence examples for fantastical thinking from inspiring English sources

To do so, he relied on magic numbers and fantastical thinking.

Baseball fans have been known to indulge in fantastical thinking.

By Ian Crouch June 12 , 2013Baseball fans have been known to indulge in fantastical thinking.

Photograph by Stephen Dunn/Getty Baseball fans have been known to indulge in fantastical thinking.

We seek solace in books, in solitary and sometimes fantastical thinking, in doing with words what boys who please their fathers do with balls.

I want to protect them and keep intact the fragile bubble of fantastical thinking because, I guess, I harbor a romantic notion of what they imagine life to be.

As a pediatrician and well-adjusted atheist, I have this advice for Dana Tierney: You may learn many important lessons from your 4-year-old son, but don't be misled into thinking that his fantastical musings about some Grand Overseer implore you to join him at his concrete mental level (Lives, Jan . 11.

But those five words, "Olympic values of fair play", sounded utterly fantastical, like some little snippet of Disney thinking adrift in the midst of his two-hour long prosecution of international sport.

In his famous museum in New York City, Barnum put up a sign that read, "This Way to the Egress". Visitors to the museum, often fooled by this antiquated word for "exit" and thinking they were headed for another fantastical exhibit, passed through a door and found themselves instead in the street!

Hmm, you do find yourself thinking, as you look again at that fantastical masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights (you can see all three parts of the triptych on the Prado website).

I remember thinking, as I watched it, that this scene probably appeared fantastical, revisionist, to many viewers.