Example Sentences

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The Parisian fancifulness of Ministry of Magic, for instance, or utilizing its Monsters brand for a dive into the arcane.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Electric Dreams, while a wonderfully engaging dip into sci-fi fancifulness, is perhaps too in love with its own big ideas to truly shock us.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017

But for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top “Wozzeck” I’ve seen.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2017

More often there’s a soulfulness that cuts against his fancifulness and bile.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2011

Oh my friends, let us pray to him to take out of our hearts all selfishness, fancifulness, fastidiousness, and hasty respect of persons, of all which there is none in God. 

From Town and Country Sermons by Kingsley, Charles