Sentence examples for slightly fanciful from inspiring English sources
Ms Waugh had "slightly fanciful" notions about herself and gave the impression that her life was more interesting and successful than it actually was.
The story brings us back to Eel Marsh House 40 years on, during the second world war, by way of a slightly fanciful situation in which London kids are evacuated, though not to specific families; they are simply billeted in this big, creepy old house built on a mudflat that floods when the tide comes in, rather like Holy Island in Northumberland.
When the "Hey, we're doing exactly the same as we did under Moyes, having spent £150m more!" realisation set in a few weeks ago, it seemed slightly fanciful to say that Van Gaal was no better.
On Friday night "Trapped in the Closet" continues — formerly released on DVD, it is now being shown on IFC — slightly more fanciful than before, with an hour's worth of new chapters, Nos.
The restaurant in question is, alas, in California, but the menu left our collective stomach rumbling, and we determined to create our own, if slightly more fanciful, list of literary fare.
For the last 30 years, his scruffy, sweat-beaded mug has watched over me from a dozen different bedroom walls (first on the German poster for 1981's Escape from New York Die Klapper-Schlange ["The Rattlesnake"] then on the slightly more fanciful Italian art for 1997: Fuga da New York).
Like the masks and the images projected on the screen behind the group, the music they went on to play felt slightly unapproachable, full of fanciful imagery with mixed or loose meanings, or maybe none at all.
Laid out by the design shop Moss — whose owners are partners in the restaurant with Nicola Marzovilla, of I Trulli — the place is an eccentric, vaguely European fantasy: the black-and-white Davies and Starr drawings of oval faces along one wall, the fanciful, elaborate chandeliers, the handsome, slightly aloof waiters.
The five concertos for violin, all from this period (No. 1 may be slightly earlier), show a remarkable growth over a few months in confidence in handling the medium, with increasingly fanciful ideas and attractive and natural contexts for virtuoso display.
The fanciful coda to "Becoming Jane" imagines a reunion between the grown-up Jane and Tom, now both slightly graying.
