Adjective : fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs. ,We never know what that fantastic creature will say next. ,fantastic fears. ,to spend fantastic sums of money. ,a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races. ,a fantastic musical. From Dictionary.com.
They release the fantasticality which is laid under such heavy burdens in the novels. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
Browning fantasticality combined with the Browning stoicism?. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
It would be funny if Carvalho's fantasticality was crowned with success!. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
No affectation, fantasticality or distortion dwelt in him; no shadow of cant. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 1-24] Reference
No affectation, fantasticality, or distortion, dwelt in him; no shadow of cant. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
We have not even the power over observers which comes from the fantasticality of an. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
On the one hand, wilfulness and fantasticality are avoided, and on the other, prose and flatness. From Wordnik.com. [Criticisms and Interpretations. II. From The Nation] Reference
"Yes," replied the dead voice of the woman without an inflection to suggest that she felt the fantasticality of her statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Club of Queer Trades] Reference
Frédérics great force was his extravagance, his fantasticality; and the stage of the Rue de Richelieu was a trifle too academic. From Wordnik.com. [The Théâtre Francais] Reference
Much of this is fake, some of it glorying in its obvious fantasticality, with animal prints more akin to a Disney cartoon than anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And each day, as we travel, the country becomes more beautiful -- beautiful with that fantasticality of landscape only to be found in volcanic lands. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Such an institution acts as a salutary check on the lawlessness, eccentricity, self-will, and fantasticality which are the besetting intellectual sins of Englishmen. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
To a certain degree you accept and conceive of facts truthfully, but beyond this a mere fantasticality rules; and having got enough of grandeur, the senses played themselves false. From Wordnik.com. [Suburban Sketches] Reference
Apart from the fantasticality of this episode, it is obvious that even if the Svayamvara was once a custom in royal circles it did not really insure to the princesses free choice of a rational kind. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
There were platters garnished with flowers and herbs, and containing roast turkeys and baked hams, jellied meats and game in aspic, puddings and tarts and frosted cakes -- every kind of food-fantasticality imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [The Metropolis] Reference
The secret of it must be sought in the extraordinary lines of the mountains, in the strangely abrupt crumpling and jagging of the ranges; no two masses closely resembling each other, every one having a fantasticality of its own. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
There is an imposing fantasticality in its configuraion worth months of artistic study: one does not easily tire of watching its slopes undulating against the north sky, -- and the strange jagging of its ridges, -- and the succession of its terraces crumbling down to other terraces, which again break into ravines here and there bridged by enormous buttresses of basalt: an extravaganza of lava-shapes overpitching and cascading into sea and plain. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
It would be funny if Carvalho’s fantasticality was crowned with success!. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
They looked upon Roma capitale as what D'Azeglio called it ” a classical fantasticality. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
A comprehension of the tale, would perhaps think it a wonderful romance, when once he had achieved its meaning; but being translated into our pitiless English, its poverty of wit and feeling and imagination is apparent; and one is soon weary of its mere fantasticality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Some of his oppressions were of a fantasticality bordering on comic opera: travellers had to give up their provisions at the frontier and eat the official bread of Monaco; ships entering the port were confiscated if they had brought more loaves than sufficed them for their voyage thither; no man might cut his own wood without leave of the police, or prune his trees, or till his land, or irrigate it; the birth and death of every animal must be publicly registered, with the payment of a given tax, and nobody could go out after ten at night without carrying a taxed lantern. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
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