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These fanciful instances benefit from Mari Fukuhara’s score, a drizzle of aural luminosity.

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It has become routine among rebooters of historical epics, never mind how fanciful the source, to get all serious about how they portray our past as developers of western civilization.

A more benign inflation outlook suddenly makes that look less fanciful.

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The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.

This isn’t a fanciful dream but a real possibility.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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