Examples of fanciful

• Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity.

• At a time when fanciful prophecies about changing human nature abounded, those were understood to be obvious matters for analysis.

• Along less fanciful lines, detectives can make invisible fingerprints visible by dusting them.

• This might sound a little fanciful, a case of the actors improvising and steering the scene towards a politically correct happy end.

• A fanciful suggestion perhaps, but it is only a short time since a manned journey to the moon was considered to be mere science fiction.

• The example is fanciful, perhaps, but its point is not.

• The sources for the early years are weak, often fanciful, and often too late to be trustworthy.

• The ironical alternative that hints at political militancy is given up as fanciful, unrealistic.