Sentence examples for of the fanciful from inspiring English sources

My favorite example of the fanciful quotation is a passage that's been floating around the Internet for years.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the master of the fanciful hypothetical, asked about the implications of owning a dozen apples.

The core of his economic theory, Skidelsky insists, is a belief in genuine uncertainty, and a rejection of the fanciful mathematical models preferred by today's young geniuses.

But that's just one small part of the fanciful five acres that surrounds Mr. Davidson's home, which was built in 1750.

Giovanni Trapattoni's side will have to pull off a stirring string of results now after a defeat that very quickly dampened some of the fanciful talk about replicating Greece of 2004.

Meanwhile, any moment now the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (Fifth Avenue at 89th Street) could sell out of the fanciful wall clock constructed of twelve vintage teacups and saucers, each porcelain pair denoting an hour ($315).

The Great British public's greatest crime is unstinting obedience to the fanciful notion of publicly licensed eccentricity.

Since July 30 she has been in jail, accused by prosecutors of the fanciful-sounding charge of spying for Armenia.

Overall, the most impressive rooms are the subtle ones, where the challenge of marrying the fanciful and relevant comes off effortlessly.

The newspaper, an eight-page broadsheet, carries the fanciful name of The West Highland Herald.

In drawing upon an assortment of source material including diaries (like Andy Warhol's and Ronald Reagan's), biographies, interviews and obituaries, Mr. Brown constructs portraits that have all the immediacy of reportage, all the fanciful detail of fiction.