It sounded like the fanciful idea of a bored billionaire, akin to buying a football club or starting an airline.

If it's difficult to spot which fanciful idea might turn out to have legs, can we instead deduce the type of person who might make a successful heretic?

She tempers my more fanciful ideas on a daily basis.

Unfortunately, there are some fanciful ideas around that, in the age of digital currencies, we can dispense with the dollar's dominance in the monetary system.

Some openings have been given fanciful names, often names of animals.

Some of the album credits for the instruments have fanciful names that describe the sound they make.

She had a great many animal friends, both wild and domestic, to whom she gave fanciful names derived from her readings in classical literature.

It was the dealers and the mountebanks, pumped up with imagined self-knowledge, who added the signatures, the fake provenances, the fanciful stories of origin.

Fanciful stories abound of how pilots knew of one another and hoped to duel with each other in the skies.

When an editor or member of the writing staff left, the magazine would often concoct fanciful stories surrounding their leaving.

However, the fanciful stories persist and grow as time passes.

The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also presents purely fanciful stories.