(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
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?"
Gesticulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.
(n.) A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
(n.) Antic tricks or motions.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(2) Here's Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that.
(3) I gesticulate too much when I'm talking and look at the passenger when I'm doing so rather than at the road.
(4) 90+2 min: Shane Smeltz swears at the linesman while gesticulating furiously after being denied a much-needed corner.
(5) Not that I am claiming they all had fluent Irish - far from it - but they were willing to engage with me, to string together the few stray words of school Irish that arose from the darkest recesses of their minds, or else to try to decipher my miming and mad gesticulation.
(6) I learned about how important everyone’s vote is and just how special it is to live in a country where that is available to us,” Beydoun said, her hands gesticulating like a future stateswoman.
(7) The crowd gathers around the polling station officials, gesticulating angrily.
(8) In an intensive videotape analysis of 10 psychotherapy sessions, the body positions and gesticulation patterns of the client were examined in relation to changes in her verbal behavior.
(9) The active phase was dominated by coma or confusion and by abnormal movements, including disordered gesticulation and attacks of orofacial dyskinesia or limb dystonia associated with permanent rigidity and culminating in opisthotonic posturing.
(10) As Jones, not a player given to complaint about physical clashes, gesticulated urgently for help, Klinsmann grimaced.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An unidentified British jihadi can be heard in this audio clip from the video released on Sunday by Isis Gesticulating in a manner similar to that used by Emwazi , who was also known as Jihadi John, the unnamed terrorist repeatedly waves a gun at the camera as he references British airstrikes in Syria.
(12) DM: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is playing the stoic holding role, refusing to budge and occasionally gesticulating wildly at the referee, although never actually getting into the danger zone at the forefront of the action.
(13) Sherwood, who is set to leave Tottenham at the end of the season, was gesticulating and interacting with supporters with renewed vigour and enthusiasm throughout the game.
(14) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
(15) The main image of the night will be of Romney, eyes alight, gesticulating from the podium with a rarely seen passion, while Obama, playing into his image as professorial, delivered most of his answers with his head down.
(16) Then another group of four or five would come up, and they’d gesticulate in various directions and send them off again.” The men occasionally paused to take selfies on their mobiles, she said, adding that they wore “sports chic” or “the type of clothing rappers might wear – smart trainers, baseball caps”.
(17) I’ve thought about writing novels in the past, and I’ve always been blocked by the fact that I’m not particularly deep or wise or anything else – and what really helped to unblock it was [the idea that] you can write a light, frothy entertainment that’s got a certain tone, and if you hold the tone all the way through, you’ve got a book.” On tape, later, Marr’s own tone – authoritative, quick, clear, offering just enough to obscure what he doesn’t want to give away – is the same as always, but it is striking how different he seems in person from the familiar figure on the TV news, gesticulating enthusiastically in front of the palace of Westminster, riding waves of complex and entertaining metaphors.
(18) You're trained to gesticulate while you talk (it's meant to make you sound more convincing) so everyone's walking round like politicians.
(19) The client's gesticulation ratings were not related significantly to the Experiencing Scale ratings, but clinically interesting relationships between gesticulation patterns and verbal content were noted.
(20) Dr Samuel Johnson was noted by his friends to have almost constant tics and gesticulations, which startled those who met him for the first time.