It is tempting, here, to push the theory of personality intofanciful extremes.
Socrates' argument drawn from the number 3 brings before us a great host of these older absurdities of scientific thought, embracing many grave conclusions drawn from fanciful considerations of number, everywhere occurring.
There is no need of fanciful associations to make the spot interesting.
With these before us, how could we dare be infidels and recreants to our earlier faith, or smile in scorn at the fanciful loves and cherished dreams of infancy?
Slang derivations are generally indirect, turning upon metaphor andfanciful allusions, and other than direct etymological connexion.
A fanciful variation of "putting one's light out," and used simply in reference to the action of the person dying.
Regarding the Assyrio-Babylonians, apparently hardly any story was too fanciful to gain a measure of credence with the classical world.
The quiver was richly decorated with groups of figures and fanciful designs.
The armour was frequently embossed with groups of figures and fanciful ornaments; but there is no reason to believe that the rich designs on the breasts of the kings were on metal.
The first two illustrate the ease with which numerous facts are accumulated to prove the most fanciful and senseless extravagances.
He sometimes thought his comrade had amused himself by stringing together his own fanciful speculations, which in no way concerned him, and that the best thing he could do would be to laugh at and forget them.
I have used his materials, and rejected most of his fanciful conjectures.
Another circumstance is related of these invasions, which might deserve our notice, were it not justly to be suspected as the fanciful conceit of a recent sophist.
We cannot forbear transcribing the ingenious, though somewhat fanciful description, which a celebrated writer of our own times has traced of the military government of the Roman empire.
But the incident, in a fanciful sort of way, is characteristic of the place.
A large fire blazed up the chimney, and cast a flickering light round the apartment, at times, bringing every object to view, and then leaving it in fanciful shadow.
The wind had again risen, and dark clouds chased each other over the lowering sky, such, as in our melancholy or fanciful moods, seem the hieroglyphics by which we may read our destiny.
By how many fanciful links are we united to the invisible world.
Roxy was fanciful enough to think to herself, "Yes, it is my funeral.
Eimer devotes special attention to "mimicry"; and indeed he was forced to be very solicitous to dispel this fancifulconception of Darwinism which radically contradicted his own views.
This opinion was among the many which that singular critic threw out as they arose at the moment; for Warburton forgot that Shakspeare characteristically introduces one in the Tempest's most fanciful scene.
This fanciful phrase, however, has a very human origin.
We are not, indeed, inculcating the fanciful elements of an occult art.
He who only views things in masses will have no distinct notion of any one particular; he may be a fanciful or a passionate historian, but he is not the historian who will enlighten while he charms.
However, he is a fanciful man, and thinks there is no elegancy nor wit but in his own way of talking.
Even thisfanciful subject was not chosen capriciously, but sprung from an incident.
Some of the fanciful writers of Italy were duped: Sansovino, to delight the Florentine nobility, accommodated them with a new title of antiquity in their ancestor Noah, Imperatore e monarcha delle genti, visse e mori in quelle parti.
However fancifulthese brilliant anticipations may now appear, they did not seem unreasonable at the time.
With his unfortunate captivity, all the fanciful schemes of conquest entertained by the French king fell to the ground.
This, by the way, is no fanciful comparison, for there is a strong strain of Wren blood in Bush-Tit's veins.
I'm surprised you don't admire the fanciful brackets and other wooden straddle-bugs people are so fond of decorating their houses with.
Remember this; fanciful brick decorations are quite sure to look better on paper than when executed.
This curious custom persisted until late in the eighteenth century; and under such conditions it was natural that the old cabinet-makers should vie with each other in producing a variety of ornate and fanciful bedsteads.
These rails were marked rather by fanciful elaboration of detail than by intrinsic merit of design, and are doubtless more beautiful now that time has given them its patina, than they were when first made.
While plain panelling, if well designed, is never out of keeping, the walls of a music-room are specially suited to a somewhat fanciful style of decoration.
This rejection of the fanciful in composition is probably due to the excessive use of pattern in modern decoration.
To a sensitive and poetic mind, what is more enjoyable than the silent hours of solitude when the soul is revelling in the delights of idealism; its sweet commune with kindred spirits; its longing and fanciful aspirations?
Long neglected parks and straggling decayed mansions, afforded ample scope for the fanciful flights of her ladyship's fond imagination.
I laughed heartily at Mare's fanciful description of a scene, which his absence would so certainly occasion.
Although his fanciful dress was discarded for a plain blue livery, I easily recognised my sable friend; and the negro's intelligent countenance brightened as he saw me, and offered a silent welcome.
The painting represented a young man, dressed in the fanciful costume of an Eastern rover, holding a midnight interview with a beautiful girl, who wore the habit of a religieuse.
He made fanciful pictures of her in his imagination, making her very beautiful and gracious.
He remembered that she had called him by his Christian name, that she distinguished between him and other men by calling him by his proper name, and not by some fanciful perversion of it.
In quick reaction came the fanciful memory of the hardy old salt who cheered his shipmates during a terrific gale with the trite remark: "I pity the poor folk ashore on a night like this.
It is easy to understand that I should be fanciful tonight," he said, returning to the cheery glow of the fire and the brightness of the room.
They laughed now at the fanciful notion that the sea could ever so much as toss its spray at the window of the living-room.
There is a great deal relating to this matter, some of it seeming fanciful and overwrought, but not more so than the natures of many women.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fanciful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
