fanciful

• “Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality.”

  words, words | clusterflock

• “And she saw that Pitt, while he was enthusiastic and eager, and what she called fanciful, always was true, honest, and firm in what he thought right.”

  A Red Wallflower

• “My husband was no believer in what he termed my fanciful, speculative theories; yet at the time when his youngest boy and myself lay dangerously ill, and hardly expected to live, I received from him a letter, written in great haste, which commenced with this sentence:”

  Roughing It in the Bush

• “I have to admit that I like certain fanciful ideas, and some of these I sort of entertain with just a little more than fictive suspension of disbelief for the sake of a good story, despite their being rather more mystical than my materialist instincts.”

  THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE

• “Industrial parks surrounding Hermosillo contain fanciful buildings that feature companies like this Mattel assembly plant.”

  Sonora - Mexico's wild west

• “My husband was no believer in what he termed my fanciful, speculative theories; yet at the time when his youngest boy and myself lay dangerously ill, and hardly expected to live, I received from him a letter, written in great haste, which commenced with this sentence: Do write to me, dear S —, when you receive this.”

  Roughing It in the Bush

• “We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other.”

  Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification

• “On the High Line, the incongruous delight of strolling through a leafy glade three stories above the roaring traffic's boom is made more piquant by the omnipresence of buildings crowded close to both sides of the walkway, especially at those points where it passes beneath a towering new structure and shoots straight through a cavernous old one, recalling the fanciful multilayered Manhattan imagined by illustrators for the turn-of-the-twentieth-century journal King's Views of New York.”

  Up in the Park

• “But look in the corners, in the cracks, look at all those societies that are not industrial, not market-driven, and still very much a part of this world, that have evolved ontologies which you would call fanciful, but the parallels they have with the most advanced rational thought are not to be brushed aside lightly.”

  "Let them learn Latin"

• “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.”

  The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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