Sentence examples for idle fancies from inspiring English sources
Everything in "Mia Madre" — happenings, memories, and idle fancies — feels deftly interleaved.
A truce to your folly! ye self-deceivers, swollen with idle fancies; learn to judge men by their converse, and by their habits decide who are noble.
Almost a hundred years ago, Bernard Shaw wrote about the effect of photography on people's sense of propriety: "Photography is so truthful — its subjects are so obviously realities, and not idle fancies — that dignity is imposed on it as effectually as it is on a church congregation.
Certainly idle fancies ought not to be fabricated recklessly against the evidence of experiments, nor should we depart from the analogy of nature, since nature is always simple and ever consonant with itself".
A fourth of Bacon's idols, the idol of the market place, is the one that comes closest to the Aristotelian tradition as it points to language as the source of our mistaken ideas: "words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies" (1620, aphorism 43).
For most, this is an idle fancy.
Its "ocean frontage" has taken the idle fancy of some rich Germans who want a second home.
Hark! my friends, did ye hear that noise, like to the rumbling of an earthquake, or am I the dupe of idle fancy?
It arose not from idle fancy but from a wartime imperative: the Roosevelt Administration was worried about Fascist incursions in South America, and kept a close eye on Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's authoritarian President.
How England would have loved another chance to grip the Hand of God and how close they came to achieving what a month ago would have seemed an idle fancy, the stuff that dreams are made of.
Sadly, actors who play ripped superheroes are not fit subjects for idle fancy – you can't daydream about pub Scrabble with someone who spends their whole day eating skinless chicken breasts and doing high-intensity interval training, while talking to their agent on a hands-free device about their back-end merch deal.
