He has no regard for thugs, for blue-collar frustrations; the wretched tale of someone like Frederick West, the English brute who murdered drifters and family members alike, and whose motives, as far as they can be unearthed, strike one as primevally depressing, would fail to touch the fancy of the novelist, let alone that of the fastidious Hannibal.
They indulge in salacious glissandos, folkish, off-center tunings, thuggish thwacks of the bow, and other touches of fancy.
This is contemporary flamenco, with modern touches and fancy lighting (designed by Gloria Montesinos), and García Lorca may not have approved.
Bedtime Story, O'Casey wrote in a letter to the American critic George Nathan, "is realism touched with fancy... out of my usual manner".
In 1935, Fortune described Hearst's warehouse in the Bronx in terms that might have been the specifications for the warehouse in the film, and by 1938 even the Reader's Digest was reprinting, from the Saturday Evening Post, a description of Hearst's empire in phrases that might be part of the script: All his life Mr. Hearst bought, bought, bought — whatever touched his fancy.
The shrimp was a fancy touch.
But for every fancy touch there were a dozen clean, lean and mean ideas, not least the biker shorts that were bicycle and fashion friendly.
The thyme-flecked brioche is a fancy touch and a wonderful one, but if you want to ditch it in favor of the more traditional version, no one save an M. Wells maniac would disapprove.
