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by the limitations of experiment can produce a stream of fanciful ideas that have nothing to do with nature.

Tears came to his eyes as he remembered her childlike look, and winsome fanciful ways, and shy tremulous grace.

In thinking through the fiscal policy options and their implications, it might be useful to compare a few hypothetical, fanciful scenarios.

But talk of peace and reconciliation is just fanciful and theoretical unless we are prepared to undergo such a revolution.

A reporter on TV, unable to give up the suspense, tries to think up fanciful ways in which John McCain could reach 270 electoral votes.

In such circumstances, it is no longer fanciful to imagine that this unique experiment in supranational governance could yet rupture.

They would not be so prosperous without the billions they made betting against the fanciful financial instruments mentioned above.

The wreaths of smoke curled up in such fanciful whorls from his opium tainted cigarette.

repeated her mother, who saw how her fanciful conception of this Cleveland home had crumbled before her eyes.

The little boy often talks to a fanciful pal of him living in his mouth.

So is a map. We do not usually associate the precise work of the map maker with a fanciful object of art.

Some archaeologists have argued that this leopard like pattern was fanciful and symbol laden rather than realistic.

Such an agreement may seem fanciful and unlikely, but it is the only way the global imbalance can be eliminated.

It is not some fanciful dream, a thing to be achieved, but the very truth of it is a liberating factor.

That would have been a very fanciful idea.

Fanciful name given to various unidentified disc-shaped objects reported in the sky. This prevalent modern myth refuses to go away.

But most business-minded observers think such plans fanciful, like the models of Juba skyscrapers in government offices.

Suddenly, it was all about the shapely legs, and men wanted to wear flattering, fanciful hose and shoes to accentuate them.

On the plus side, fears that China's state-owned enterprises are masterfully mapping out a plan for world dominion appear fanciful.

As corporate complexity collides with the fanciful phrasing of image makers, it's getting harder to tell what some companies actually do.

In the case of this image, I wanted to represent New York in a tongue-in-cheek, fanciful way.

The predicted collision was always fanciful, not least because Beijing and Moscow are more plausible strategic rivals than allies.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never less than analytic.

My favorite example of the fanciful quotation is a passage that's been floating around the Internet for years.

Even at its most fanciful, physics, it seems, can play around for only so long before it gets back to serious work.

Mobility may be thought of in more than a fanciful sense, as the "pulse of the community. "

They say things, like they want to be close to nature and run free in the fields, but they want to achieve this fanciful vision by killing.

Glamour rating? We know by now that Keira wears a period frock well, even if it's more working class than fanciful.

Therefore, no definite rules about the fanciful France, mainly in the targeted consumers desire to purchase and open up Creek Trail.

Astronomers no longer regard fanciful the idea that they may one day pick up signals which have been sent by intelligent beings.

It was this constant conversion of my fanciful ambition into these practical moneymaking ventures.

Yet his name is linked with the fanciful account of four voyages known to us as Gulliver's Travels (1726).

City of Fantasy depicts a fanciful world, where the affections of the characters are simple and pure, with no worldly obstacles.

The fanciful tale of a "thousand year" torment inside the Sarlacc's digestive system may be more fact than fiction, however.

The company shows no sign of doing so, but the idea is not entirely fanciful.

The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful Scientists now propose a more modest system, aimed at insects rather than nuclear warheads.

Just five years ago the notion that Wired, a trendy technology magazine, would laud the Tories as online pioneers would have been fanciful.

In time, these fanciful dreams became reality in the form of the first practical submarine designs.

Any story relating this group to a dynasty begun by Jesus and Mary Magdalene is a fanciful work of fiction.

I'm not talking about the fanciful daydreams we have about a boss who wants to pay us seven figures for working one hour a day.

Their idea of a caliphate may be fanciful, but they will be hard to defeat by missiles alone.

The maps sketched by this new generation of cartographers range from the useful to the fanciful and from the simple to the elaborate.

No matter what happens, I refuse to curse any fanciful illusion I indulged in as a little boy.

Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.

Is it too fanciful to say you can taste the exquisite beauty of these landscapes in great China tea? Some examples follow.

There is no room here FOR evasive, theoretical, of fanciful interpretations of the law.

Champions of Law: the champions of the men is lying, the champions of women is fanciful.

In the secondary market, meantime, shares of Facebook and its ilk sell on equally fanciful multiples.

What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions, professional innovators see as solid possibilities.

Instead of renting costumes from shops around the Piazza San Marco, some Carnivalgoers like these create their own fanciful designs.

Elaborate castles and fanciful creatures grace Florida's Bradenton Beach during a sand-sculpting competition.

We sat in tea gardens amid flowering shrubs and fanciful pavilions and sipped green "Dragon Well" tea and cracked watermelon seeds.

That sounds fanciful: Congo, the size of western Europe, is covered in thick jungle and has almost no roads.

If the plan is to offer the banks a brief shelter in a storm, it looks fanciful.

Mr Graddol says the idea of English being supplanted as the world language is not fanciful.

What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions , innovators see as solid possibilities.

Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.

Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings .

So how can the media differentiate between fanciful hypotheses and real concerns regarding GM crops and food?

If you'll forgive a somewhat fanciful comparison from the realm of science fiction, we could follow the precedent set by Isaac Asimov.

Environmentalists are left to hope that talk of Chongming's "ecological" future is neither so puny nor so fanciful.

and you would not have wanted Miss. Taylor to live with us and bear all my fanciful manners, when she might have a house of her own.

You prefer to communicate in a logical and factual manner, and you are not easily tricked by fanciful behavior.

Fanciful? Certainly, and it has been imagined before. But in volatile times, imaginings sometimes come true.

In fact, it eliminates fatigue, loosens and warms the limbs, and leads to a fanciful mood.

That may be reasonable in theory but it sounds fanciful in practice.

The Madisons' background made the police's version of events seem fanciful.

Over the years, Shanghai's urban plans have become ever more fanciful.

Hint No. 2 for aspiring futurists: carbon nanotubes are the fallback material for nearly anything fanciful that hasn't been invented yet.

the use of decorative gardens and fanciful and elaboratr fountains was also typical of the Italian Baroque.

Those males who claim that women are prone to untruths and fanciful accounts will feel vindicated.

It sounds fanciful. But so too, not that long ago, did rapid and routine intercontinental air travel.

I hope you can pardon me. Maby learning e spanish is a fanciful ideas and also I will not major in foreign language. But I love them !

It's a funny combination, this deeply gritty look at immigrant communities with the fanciful aspect of speaking to the dead.

Harry Potter has all kinds of fanciful creatures, but that requires a bit more willing suspension of disbelief.

Imprinted with Halo fanciful and direct, the image is not clear, flat.

Embellishment with fanciful details.

Given this opportunity, will a new government choose something more fanciful?

Other, more fanciful nuclear propulsion ideas were proposed, too.

By the early 1800s even Adam was thought too fanciful and decorative.

The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends.

A riddle In which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.

He would invent fanciful names on the spot .

A fairy tale is a story relating the adventures of fanciful beings who appear in human form.

romance = fanciful thoughts, epic ideas for great writers to write about (like those great works of Homer, Dante, or Milton).

Young love is fanciful, fleeting, and fragile -- in a word, romantic.

The image you have of me is fanciful and romanticized.

The picture above depicts a "photonic micropolis, " a rather fanciful collage of many different photonic crystal devices.

Other revenue-raisers look similarly fanciful.

As fanciful as that seems, acupuncture does have real effects on the human body, which scientists are documenting using high-tech tools.

Ocean tides comb the waters of coastal Alaska into fanciful eddies and whorls.

You have made inquires into the history of my unhappy brother, and you now pretend to deduce this knowledge in some fanciful way.

i've learned something from my experiences. The world is realistic but the Internet is fanciful .

The fanciful guy often feel all at sea when something unexpected happens.

It is, for this reason, fanciful to imagine a swift and strong return to global growth.

"It's a shame that so many fanciful things have been written about the zodiac, " she says.

The so-called cash, has not god to horse fanciful things.

In this febrile mix, the tales about the source of some rumours sound almost as fanciful as the rumours themselves.

To drive home the subtle interconnections of logical and empirical reasoning , we can consider a more fanciful example .

Which spread from the volcano forming fanciful designs.

Have uttered people's limitless and fanciful thoughts.

a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers.

There are various fanciful but unlikely stories surrounding the discovery of coffee beans.

And I should be grateful to know the source of such fanciful rumours.

The fanciful question - what would you do with three wishes?

Children are very fanciful.

edged the quilt with fanciful embroidery.

You are a romantic and fanciful people, life is full of aspirations, but lack the ability to cope, so you very much need someone to protect.

And in human life and human culture that is not a playful, fanciful conceit; it is a real veritable fact. --Malcolm J. McLeod.

My dear Maximilian, you are really too fanciful ; you will not love even me long.

The idea was always fanciful.

Mr Darling, for example, is said to have helped prevent the economic predictions in April's budget from being even more fanciful.

As things now stand, a peaceful election is fanciful.

Harvesting here is not entirely fanciful.

Was thy existence then too fanciful For our life's common light, who are so dull?

The fanciful football fan scanned the can .

The conceive of this program is very fanciful.

As a result, they often follow leaders with fancy houses and fanciful clothing.

They decked out their room in fanciful colors.

But the government's hopes that it would grow this year by 9% look fanciful; the real rate may be closer to 4%.

Third is the fanciful approach that appraisal forms take to the future.

Scrimshaw is the decoration of bone or ivory objects, such as whale teeth and walrus tusks, with fanciful designs.

The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful.

Like thinking quietly, making myself down-to-earth, as so many ordinary girls, I have lot of fanciful dreams.

We have introduced to you various fanciful clocks which have one thing in common, that is you can see the time.

There are huge fanciful caves with rare crystals here.

That is not quite as fanciful as it might sound.

The student comes from a background of fear, of authority, of all kinds of fanciful and actual impressions and pressures.

This might sound fanciful but it's a documented behaviour of patients with attentional problems caused by brain damage (Lhermitte, 1983).

We love him because he is full of fanciful stories.

But the more fanciful elements of "Game of Thrones" don't come at you right away. Is that by design?

And this is not altogether fanciful.

You have a fanciful to me, my bones will become the same as with the egg Sachima crisp.

It might be kind of fanciful to some, but on the other hand, space travel was considered science fiction not that many decades ago.

His work depicts a world that is both real and fanciful, genuine and synthetically altered.

He is a fanciful writer.

But is this theory only a fanciful psychological construct?

But there are some things the ' ' they may notice that the campus novels of fanciful, youth market .

a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers. Something exotic is unusual and intriguing in appearance or effect

a brooch with a fanciful and intricate device;

On Conception of the Novel in the Early Tang Dynasty and Contemporary Fanciful Literature in China

On Cultural Phenomenon of Fanciful Novel

(archaic)a fanciful or impractical idea or theory

It is fanciful to imagine that guns will ever disappear from America;