fancifulness

"The fancifulness of his subjects is something he appears to appreciate and enjoy."

Nevertheless, fancifulness and a richness of expression surfaced often at the fair.

Practicality is more important than fancifulness in the forest.

There was no fancifulness in that closed, speculative gaze.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Even with his fancifulness, it is hard to imagine the civil service employing anyone who is not either a man or a woman.

Platonic and other ideological fancifulness nevertheless sometimes led to useful scientific work.

With her back still turned to him, she grimaced wryly at her own fancifulness.

Even the ebullient second movement had a cool, rhythmic rigidity that undermined the music's fancifulness.

October Sky isn't a paean to fancifulness but to trial-and-error perseverance, to a process and not an end.

Don't be an idiot, Winter reproached herself, quelling even the tiniest sign of fancifulness.

But almost all of these tales have a fancifulness and humor that render them enjoyable to readers of any stripe.

As with "Lava," the journey is intriguing, although the extent of the interest depends on one's willingness to indulge the playwright's fancifulness.

Or - another hobbyhorse - the fancifulness, as he keeps repeating, of the allegations of German atrocities.

The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.

Blanche chuckled at her fancifulness.

Gone are the magic and fancifulness of "Like Water for Chocolate," not to mention the potent culinary wit.

Asinine fancifulness!

Such fancifulness suggests the approach of magic realism, but "Ambassador of the Dead" isn't that kind of book.

Equally thrilling and unusual is their luminous, saturated color, a certain fancifulness, and an attention to atmosphere that reminds you of late Turner.

It's possible to appreciate Mr. Jackson's irrepressible fancifulness without remotely admiring the uses to which it has been put here.

In both these new books, I miss images that convey some of the layering and fancifulness of fantasies that live culturally for a long time.

There was formerly a melancholy fancifulness in the arrangement of these rustic offerings, that had something in it truly poetical.

Although not legally binding, like a prenuptial agreement, it looks much better as wall art, especially now that artists are writing and illustrating them with increasing fancifulness.