fantasticality

Example Sentences

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His thought, allowing for the fantasticality of his humor in certain moods, is never muddled or unorganized: it is sane, consistent and worthy of attention.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

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

He delights in the fantasticality of the Gothic.

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

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

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