fantasticality

Example Sentences

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There is even in Dalou's fantasticality of this sort a measure and distinction which temper animation into resemblance to such delicate blitheness as is illustrated by the Bargello "Bacchus" of Jacopo Sansovino.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

They looked upon Roma capitale as what D'Azeglio called it—a classical fantasticality.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

No affectation, fantasticality, or distortion, dwelt in him; no shadow of cant.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

He delights in the fantasticality of the Gothic.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

It is quite startling to me to find how wholly he misses Hilary's point; and how wildly he falls back on a sort of elderly impatience with our juvenile paradox and fantasticality.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie