fanciful

Example Sentences

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Architecture critics, who like to put the chapel in a historical context, regard it as a turning point in the discipline—its fanciful use of concrete anticipates Brutalism and its unusual shapes herald Post-Modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stern and Epstein even discussed a fanciful plan to take over the giant German lender Deutsche Bank with the help of Qatari investors, the emails suggest - which never came to fruition.

From BBC

"I'm optimistic enough, but I know that we have to work really hard so that optimism becomes a reality, not just a fanciful dream," he said.

From Barron's

“The idea that they don’t know how their own laws and regulations work seems fanciful to me.”

From Salon

Seems some committee decided they were too fanciful for an ordinary country church.

From Literature