What's the difference between calligraphy and fancy?

Calligraphy


Definition:

  • (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
  • (2) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
  • (3) During the early 1960s, Burroughs and his colleague, the painter and writer Brion Gysin , had developed the cut-up as a method of visual and verbal reassembly that was equally applicable to painting, montaged artworks, calligraphy, tape manipulation and the word.
  • (4) He stays healthy and alert by eating well and practising calligraphy, according to his family.
  • (5) Thus began the evolution of this city’s distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
  • (6) "She was so approachable," said Lu Yuhong, 16, who guided the first lady in writing the Chinese character "eternal" in calligraphy at the Beijing school.
  • (7) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (8) Stores are offering Rooster-themed products, Chinese calligraphy or handing out treats in traditional red envelopes.
  • (9) But Mo told Der Spiegel that he only joined in with the project because he was "vain enough to take the opportunity to show off with my calligraphy".
  • (10) Ahmad Salma, a Syrian of Palestinian origin, used the sinuous swirls of different styles of Arabic calligraphy to spell out the names of the provinces of Syria – to emphasise unity in the face of violence and rising sectarianism.
  • (11) With chainsaws and chisels, carving ice requires techniques from tree surgery to calligraphy.
  • (12) He left his homeland in the early 60s to spend two years in China, steeping himself in its language and calligraphy.
  • (13) In the few hours that sunlight enters the dark cell we read what a past cellmate has inscribed on the walls in an elegant Arabic calligraphy.
  • (14) Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
  • (15) Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who , but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.
  • (16) Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.
  • (17) He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
  • (18) For services to Western Calligraphy and the community in Northern Ireland.
  • (19) Not only is Mao's own rather wild calligraphy everywhere to be seen in Shaoshan - on paper, on rocks, on walls, on silk - but also that of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
  • (20) Wen Huaisha, a former Pekin University teacher and a specialist in Chinese literature is in France for an exhibition of his calligraphy at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris.

Fancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
  • (n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
  • (n.) An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
  • (n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
  • (n.) That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
  • (n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
  • (v. i.) To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
  • (v. i.) To love.
  • (v. t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
  • (v. t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
  • (v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
  • (a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
  • (a.) Extravagant; above real value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
  • (2) The plot departs from the good book in big ways, small ways, in fact any way the makers (evangelical husband and wife Mark Burnett and Roma Downey) fancy.
  • (3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (4) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
  • (5) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
  • (6) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
  • (7) BSkyB believes the modelling is flawed and that conclusions such as that it could benefit by up to £600m over five years is "fanciful".
  • (8) The first fanciful bit of the Biden 4 Prez story came out this past weekend, when the veep sat down with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for a two-hour meeting .
  • (9) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
  • (10) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
  • (11) I require my coffee to taste like coffee, not like fancy warm milk.
  • (12) "They sit in their fancy hotels, in safety, talking and talking.
  • (13) Protest is what you do when those you elect are not listening, and it can, on occasion, be powerful to dress up in fancy dress and sing.
  • (14) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
  • (15) Founder and executive deputy chairman Mike Ashley didn't need a salary or a fancy bonus plan because he would gain from the improvement in the company's value.
  • (16) Good luck telling your manager you fancy a day off.
  • (17) I'm not even asking for a handout or asking to be able to keep up a fancy lifestyle and have someone else pay for the boring stuff, I work hard, I save and I pay my taxes and my standard of living gets worse and worse every year.
  • (18) "My use of the word 'fancy' was not meant as a proper insult.
  • (19) The Mr Benn approach also opens up lots of fancy dress options for TV sponsorship bumpers and blipverts.
  • (20) Does he fancy winning the league again & knock Liverpool right off their perch?"