Hans Christian Andersen often drew from personal experience to create his fanciful tales. From LearnThat.org.
A fanciful mind. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality. From Wordnik.com. [words, words | clusterflock] Reference
We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification] Reference
Industrial parks surrounding Hermosillo contain fanciful buildings that feature companies like this Mattel assembly plant. From Wordnik.com. [Sonora - Mexico's wild west] Reference
"And I'm not what you'd call a fanciful sort of person," went on Sir John, with obvious veracity. From Wordnik.com. [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference
GSU senior J.D. Koth calls his fanciful shelter, built of crepe myrtle branches, rope and grass, a "hut.". From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
Some people -- people like Mrs. Tolman, our vicar's wife -- laugh at her and call her fanciful, but to me she is so real. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Luttrell's First Patient] Reference
It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] Reference
I recall fanciful commercials on BET portraying Dr. King looking up to President Obama and smiling amid a crowd of mixed Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Black Entertainment USA - Celebrity / Entertainment News - African American view] Reference
Conversation picked up excitedly behind her; those near where she'd climbed the wall called fanciful explanations to friends farther away. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Some of them are clearly kind of fanciful or farcical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009] Reference
But somebody thought it was kind of fanciful to talk of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Air Remembers 'Spartacus' Star Tony Curtis] Reference
And I've always just found, you know, different-colored glass to be kind of fanciful and playful. From Wordnik.com. [An Alphabetical Urban Tour Teaches 'Barrio ABCs'] Reference
Strange feelings all over the body, and an indescribable series of seemingly "fanciful" troubles, come on. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Photo: France, Gabon slam 'fanciful' funding claims. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
When one of the lawyers for BCCI said that Modi's allegations were "fanciful", Justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Clare Montgomery QC, for Mr Dewani, dismissed the allegations as "fanciful" and "flimsy". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The measure was also criticised by Green MP Keith Locke, who said it was "fanciful" for Ms. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
She said it was "fanciful" to believe "12 men, good and true" were allowed to hear all the evidence in an unbiased way. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
A digital camera was some kind of fanciful dream machine. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Ocean waves may seem like a fanciful source of energy. From Wordnik.com. [AHOY! MAN THE CIRCUIT BREAKERS!] Reference
As fanciful beasts go, bipartisanship is more like a T. From Wordnik.com. [Bipartisanship Is Bad] Reference
Of course, it's a fanciful question because we know in our hearts that Michael wasn't watching. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Will He Or Won't He?] Reference
Herewith, a fanciful reconstruction of the White House tapes from the great Cuban missile crisis of. From Wordnik.com. [Tricky Dick's Missile Crisis] Reference
Winning the hearts and minds of billions of Chinese for democracy is a lovely, if perhaps fanciful notion. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Let The Geopolitical Games Begin] Reference
But the government well knew that his information was not fanciful, which of course gave his criticisms force. From Wordnik.com. [The Storm Clouds] Reference
HAFFNER: No. We still have this idea that when children are small -- 2.5 to 5 -- we should give fanciful answers. From Wordnik.com. [How To Talk To Kids About Sex] Reference
Me Too is one of a small but growing band of designers making fanciful kids 'products meant for a contemporary home. From Wordnik.com. [TIPSHEET] Reference
Set against lyrical watercolor backgrounds, the fanciful film follows an ornery space alien and a lonely Hawaiian girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Artist's Touch] Reference
Even the most fanciful of children's tales must have a rigorous inner logic, but there's something fuzzy at the core here. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Scare The Heck Out Of 'Shrek'?] Reference
In the enchanting "Pish, Posh, said Hieronymus Bosch," their fanciful, lush paintings explode with anthropomorphic activity. From Wordnik.com. [Innocence And Experience] Reference
The Waco metaphor is fanciful, of course, but this presidency increasingly does seem a hostage of one extremely complicated issue. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Step Back] Reference
Politicians have artfully dodged the civil war question with fanciful language, calling it "sectarian conflict" or "civil strife.". From Wordnik.com. [Calling a Spade a Spade] Reference
Romer says that Obama likes to rib Summers over some of his old habits — like applying a somewhat fanciful certainty to his ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Larry Summers] Reference
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