fantasticality

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We have not even the power over observers which comes from the fantasticality of an Englishman when he discards the conventional dress.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

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

Occasionally in the midst of this display of fantasticality there is a work of promise or even of positive interest.

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

Frédéric's great force was his extravagance, his fantasticality; and the stage of the Rue de Richelieu was a trifle too academic.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

To a certain degree you accept and conceive of facts truthfully, but beyond this a mere fantasticality rules; and having got enough of grandeur, the senses played themselves false.

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean