Sentence examples for on fanciful from inspiring English sources

With the latest Planet of the Apes flick getting almost unanimous praise, and Game of Thrones continuing to captivate the world, gritty realist takes on fanciful sci-fi and fantasy tropes seems to be in right now.

While long on fanciful features, the camera is short on manual controls (i.e. there are none).

She leans on fanciful, even upsetting, therapeutic techniques, like regression therapy.

And he took young readers on fanciful journeys in the five children's books he wrote and illustrated.

It overspent on fanciful air and sea weapons irrelevant to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while neglecting desperately needed basics like defensive armor and drones.

Bernd Dams, an architect, and Andrew Zega, an artist and writer, live in Paris and collaborate on erudite but popular books on fanciful buildings of the ancien regime.

Lowe appears to spend nearly all his profits on fanciful-seeming projects that, in aggregate, mount a serious case that the facsimile can play a central role in art conservation.

Serious themes are encountered on this fanciful journey, ones that will resonate with adults more than with the young.

Louis Comfort Tiffany already lived in a grand house on the northwest corner of Madison and 72nd, and Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo was just beginning work on her fanciful chateau on the southeast corner.

From it the author seems to derive a kind of contact high, one that sends him on a fanciful flight of alternate history: "The military presence in Vietnam, later disastrous, was a mistake made in 1961, when Kennedy was medically ill and psychiatrically erratic.

One ivory, a recent addition, is based on a fanciful secular literary theme, the assault on the Castle of Love.