He begins the review in a fantasy world in which Darwin did not originate the concept of natural selection. |
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Or was he Peter Pan who wanted to live out this fantasy of always being young so that his development was arrested pre-adolescence? |
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Rather the lie was more in the nature of a fantasy about getting out of a life which is undesirable. |
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Whatever the technique, Miranda's weaves result in headfuls of seamless fantasy locks in every conceivable hue. |
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To say that fantasy movies have not been a big draw at the box office is to understate the matter. |
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The spy ships, personal helicopters, flying shoes and crazy laptops are a fun distraction, and the high-tech tree house is pure fantasy. |
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Any priest who thinks he can dictate the political choices of his parishioners is living an ultramontane fantasy. |
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The charming Tim is a lying bounder and desperate for money to feed his fantasy life as a successful high flyer. |
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Patients chosen for this group were all voracious readers and enjoyed reading either science fiction or fantasy novels. |
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I have friends who've paid a lot of money to go to baseball fantasy camps to play hardball with ex-major leaguers. |
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Umbrellas is so obviously a fantasy that the story can sustain the weight and still float effortlessly. |
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Imagine the most outrageous fantasy came true and she confessed her love and you two were married. |
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This reductionism is an ideological fantasy, rather than a theoretical position resting on solid argument. |
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Today, instead of fantasy literature, wimpy geeks are totally into gangsta rap, and there is no place in gangsta rap for swords. |
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Both play and opera form an examination of the neurotic bifurcation between fantasy and action. |
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We need to abandon the fantasy of a bloodless war and get this fight over with, I think. |
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The decor and costumes, by Peter McKintosh, are imaginative and cleverly sit on the borderline between reality and fantasy. |
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As with the unrequited love theme, also this was always a figment of the imagination, a displaced fantasy. |
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This space-age fantasy is technologically revolutionary, but a throwback nonetheless. |
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It could be fiction or non-fiction, horror or fantasy or prose or epic poetry. |
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A happy by-product of the fantasy is the prospect that the community will disintegrate into a free-trade area. |
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The artwork on the site gives the game world a decidedly fantasy flair, but also with what could be steampunk elements. |
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The idea had been put forward that she was making it all up, that she had a fantasy or some other motive. |
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This is also one reason why I remain so steadfastly resolute about concentrating on fantasy, science fiction and horror film. |
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For a moment, I even allowed the event to fuel a little fantasy about the harsh reality of my rural existence. |
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I had the delusional fantasy that other people would get better solely because of my presence. |
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This image displayed a fantasy of a superior warrior caste, responsive to the demands of theater. |
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Francis loses both daughter and wife and constructs a fantasy life to pretend that Lisa is somehow still alive. |
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I had a fantasy that it was off to drive round the local council estate with the windows wound down and Wagner booming out of the woofers. |
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But at 3000 pounds sterling it's going to stay in the realms of fantasy for a while. |
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The nods to the traditional Tolkienesque fantasy setting are as countless as they are obvious. |
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He had read enough trashy fantasy novels to know that castles didn't have electricity. |
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To cut a ridiculously broad topic into bite-sized pieces, I've come to the conclusion that the there are three main categories of sexual fantasy. |
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Perhaps the fact that none of it is real and is based for the most part on fantasy shouldn't matter. |
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Many live in a colorful world of fantasy and the lines between truth and fiction are often blurred. |
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This is about the one-night stands, long-term losers, maintenance booty calls and fantasy flings. |
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It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel. |
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What was always an improbable scenario, the Granita restaurant myth, has become a quite unreal fantasy. |
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It also may include a certain amount of untruth, fantasy disguised through unacknowledged invention. |
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This new tool, a juiced-up version of sortable stats, is unlike anything fantasy owners ever have seen. |
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He talks at length about fantasy and space opera and the various visions of Utopia that permeate science-fiction. |
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The authors of this particular fantasy neglect to mention that Russian Tarragon is not used in GOOD sauces, vinegars and salads. |
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Explanations that involve supernatural forces or magic are also fine in a fantasy world. |
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Will you please flail around like a zombie and spout gibberish in one of the worst fantasy movies ever? |
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Recent minor league call-ups who could make a difference in your fantasy team's offensive numbers. |
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They are placing astrology on the same level as fantasy, which makes their long-winded obscurities largely redundant. |
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Psychoanalysis disrupts notions of a unitary, centred and rational self by its emphasis on an inner world permeated by desire and fantasy. |
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They're systematizing their fantasy lives, and thereby structuring their subjective worlds. |
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Once we were history he retreated into his fantasy world in one of the most bizarre ways I've ever seen. |
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Veenendaal supported the fantasy of a Boer homeland achieved by driving out the black population. |
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Here is a fantasy of necromancy and astromancy, gunpowder and swordplay, politics and crime. |
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The fantasy has now become a reality after a Californian research team released a video demoing the futuristic vehicle. |
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The bourgeoisie's delusory fantasy of self-reliance is thus rendered utterly absurd. |
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A number of us critiqued the fantasy of unanchored choice in poetry, and in the marketplace. |
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Kubrick was all about making marmoreal masterworks, not pleasing mortals with morsels of wish-fulfillment fantasy. |
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Everything should be free, another warmed-over hippie fantasy, though you have gone into more detail. |
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This fantasy allows us to pretend that where we are does not matter, and that what we do daily is a minor narrative that does not count. |
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An instant classic of its kind, it was the lively and original archetype for fantasy across the board. |
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In fantasy, they get to feel the omnipotence, invulnerability, aggression and self-direction that real life makes so difficult. |
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These are tough ladies, both professional dominants, who very clearly differentiate between fantasy and reality. |
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Both aims are a fantasy strongly reminiscent of the interwar idealism that Carr so effectively and presciently criticized. |
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I suspect that more modern audiences accustomed to the literary fantasy genre would be more accepting. |
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In its merger of antiquarianism and fantasy, artisanship and magic, the castle neatly sums up the art of its creator, Hayao Miyazaki. |
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There follows a fantasy sequence in which they both swim, hand-in-hand around the aquarium. |
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A pulse of excitement grips the indie nation, the chatrooms buzz with fantasy set lists for the band's Hyde Park shows next summer. |
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The works in this exhibition explore the space of fantasy as an ongoing process of transmutative imaginings. |
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He is wearing a grey fantasy costume with a red collar and a red-black stripe in the front that resembles a mitre. |
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It mockingly contrasts the glittering fantasy of Bollywood movies with the grim reality of Bombay life. |
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There must have been pages upon pages of typewriter paper filled with romance, horror, fantasy and tales of the strange. |
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The club will have a band playing your favourite tunes, mouth-watering food, and fantasy cocktails. |
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They argued that the lupine fantasy could be seen as a fundamental challenge to Western notions of subjectivity. |
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When Laurel emerged from the bathroom, gargling with mouthwash, I didn't share that fantasy with her. |
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Radically unfit to raise her daughter, or even cross the street, Yuen comes unhinged and retreats into a fantasy world. |
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And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true. |
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The ability to smack talk is a critical skill to being a successful fantasy sports coach. |
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The movie tells the story of the drug wars, contrasting the realities of the violence with the pop culture fantasy world of the narcocorridos. |
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The speed and flexibility which strategy software offers can also take the user into an unreal world where reality merges into fantasy. |
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He is also a difficult writer to define, ranging from fantasy to science fiction and essays. |
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They show how unsophisticatedly children of this age understand history, how fantasy and reality intermingle in their imaginations. |
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Defined always by the nearness of Mexico to its borders, the town of Roswell participates in this fear and fantasy. |
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Its range is wide indeed, from operatic aria to rock fantasy via Neapolitan love song and pop ballad. |
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Her work ranges from poems of fantasy and verses for the young to ballads, love lyrics, sonnets, and religious poetry. |
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Marc is infatuated by Uva who, when she reappears finally, no longer matches the fantasy he has constructed for her. |
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It is a huge misconception that experiencers are gullible, fantasy prone, space cadets. |
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Buckminster-Fuller's fantasy of a city enclosed in a transparent bubble may yet not be too far distant. |
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In your ideal fantasy world there will be people dancing around in circles, holding hands with daisy chains in their hair. |
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In fantasy basketball, a deadline deal can give your point guard a new sharpshooter to pad his assist stats. |
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Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have! |
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One of the most difficult commodities to acquire in fantasy baseball is elite starting pitching. |
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Written for Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Die Natali is a fantasy on Christmas carols. |
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The film seems to lead us to expect the case-history of a neurotic fantasizer, then ends up offering us instead the fantasy itself. |
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Yet the autonomous individual, gloriously independent in his decisionmaking, can easily seem to be a fantasy. |
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Paul's hallucinatory obsessions further spread his feet between the worlds of fantasy and reality until he has to confront his fears. |
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But, these were painters of fantasy, merely starry-eyed utopians unfit to be assigned any place in the Republic of Plato. |
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To a greater or lesser extent, the manifestos of the major political parties have been exercises in fantasy. |
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Film titles, like Andy Kaufman's record, jerking backwards and forwards awkwardly, move between fact and fantasy, real and imagined worlds. |
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For men, it holds out the fantasy that babes are attracted to geeky men who really, really care about what they think. |
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And there's not a sausage I can do about the UK's current gym-centric fantasy. |
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Combining music and theater the NSO teamed up with If Kids Theater Company, turning a flute concerto into a fairy tale fantasy. |
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The fiction section contained subsections of fantasy, science fiction, teen fiction, and so on. |
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They also claimed that cybersex had become the new tea room for meeting anonymous partners and engaging in a fantasy world. |
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Remember that even though your fantasy players seem like pawns on a chessboard, the game is played on the field. |
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Based on Mervyn Peake's novel, this new horror fantasy series chronicles the story of the Groan family. |
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It was an opportunity to fulfil a boyhood fantasy to mix it with swashbucklers. |
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Now, having said all that, it still has to be said that Dawn is pretty bad at fantasy football. |
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I don't quite understand it when people dismiss slash as purely fan fantasy. |
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The enthusiasts' tactics include presenting science as theatre, magic tricks and fantasy. |
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He has composed for a variety of genres but science fiction, horror and fantasy stories dominate his filmography. |
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If all the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter hype has you jonesing for some sci-fi or fantasy with a gay flavor, the Web can help you find it. |
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There are some marvellous fantasy sequences, which help to explain how he may have seen himself. |
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Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches. |
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She was one of those girls who lives in this fantasy land where absolutely nothing is ever their fault. |
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Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate. |
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This is a land of fantasy, adventure and discovery, a place where those dreams become reality. |
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And that fire warms the pages of fantasy literature so much that tress whisper and rivers weep. |
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Before long, fantasy not only intrudes into reality but becomes the only reality. |
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I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever. |
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There are three bars to sidle up to and pro circuit barmen who'll build you any cocktail fantasy from the daiquiri to the iced tea. |
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This is an ongoing fantasy, but I don't relish the idea of being questioned by the police. |
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The fantasy junkies who thrill to Lord of the Rings and role-play games form one obvious tribe. |
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A lively rendering of The Nutcracker, a ballet fantasy thrilled its audience to a standing ovation Thursday. |
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The fantasy creature category contained such imaginary creatures as fairy, hairy Cyclops, and gremlin. |
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She had a wall full of books on one side that went from murder to the latest fantasy fiction. |
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But I'm not sure my reparative fantasy of total self-sufficiency is entirely healthy. |
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And reproduced en masse and handed with confidence to potential investors, it ultimately helped make the fantasy a reality. |
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The lightness and elegance of this seemingly fantasy structure was truly innovative. |
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In fact, while they are labeled as such, they are not really fantasy stories in the genre sense. |
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Under no circumstances make spaceships, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters or fantasy art characters. |
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Today's collectors are drawn to both period and contemporary fantasy paintings, drawings and prints in this Romantic mode. |
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But unlike many fantasy writers today, Tolkien really tapped into mythic roots. |
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Though the prose is nicely formed and sometimes beautiful, the world created often veers more closely to romantic fantasy than literary realism. |
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The film is a cute, anodyne fantasy of 70s rock, based on his adventures as a kid reporter with Rolling Stone. |
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Absorption is a personality trait associated with fantasy proneness, vivid imagery and so forth. |
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They are not a part of a narrative, neither are they transmogrified creatures of fantasy and myth. |
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I don't particularly care what subject it is, it could be romance, horror, adventure, fantasy etc. |
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His eyes nearly misted over at the vision of his car-bonnet fantasy being flushed down the toilet. |
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Her room is overflowing with tiaras, troll dolls, magical cards, toy castles, posters, crowns, swords, and all manner of fantasy knick-knacks. |
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Like any good Wilde fans, they know that a pose can be genuine and a fantasy can have the ring of truth. |
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I've played fantasy role-playing games at home with old friends and online with new ones, and it's perhaps my favorite genre for games. |
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Once a rather lissome belle of a teacher invoked in me a vivid fantasy that never leaves me to this day. |
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What I actually saw left me momentarily confused, unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality. |
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Not just because I'm a staunch hard sci-fi kind of guy, but most fantasy, to me, consists of poorly written Tolkein knock-offs. |
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The fantasy elements are there to serve what I hope is a realistic depiction of human nature. |
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The movie is a sly comic romp that transforms the realities of rock and roll into a fantasy farce about joy, fame, and isolation. |
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How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity. |
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A lot of last season's Monday night games were blowouts, but fantasy owners in close battles had reasons to watch. |
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No. And then I started to have fruit and then there was this one fantasy I've been having the whole time which was a lox and cream cheese bagel. |
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The myriad worlds of fantasy and science fiction are where our spirits are free to frolic unfettered by the weight of sin. |
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The big boofy boys just weren't sure what they were supposed to do in relation to having a living male fantasy right before them. |
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The other option was science fiction with players having psionic powers, but we really felt more comfortable with the heroic fantasy theme. |
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He's juxtaposed cartoonish fantasy with the most painful and revealing details of his childhood deprivations and wrecked marriage. |
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Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly is a glorious film, beautifully photographed against the Australian landscape, a brilliant weave of fact and fantasy. |
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I'm not talking about the drama, musical, comedy, or the Western genres, but horror movies, science fiction, fantasy and thrillers. |
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The US government and the US press and the US punditocracy was living in a fantasy land. |
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The Matrix, along with much fantasy and science fiction, is part of the undercurrents of our times which are rapidly coming to the surface. |
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Stylised fantasy environments can work, but here they feel cheap and persistently detract from the film itself. |
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How many bad fantasy and horror movies does a person have to see to realize diddling around with this kind of stuff is a bad idea? |
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Each week she invites a celebrity guest to conjure up their fantasy dinner party. |
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And yet why is it that African Americans are so little a part of genre science fiction and fantasy today? |
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He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures. |
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The immortal, crucified and resurrected fecundity of God pours into and out of every honest work of fantasy and science fiction. |
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To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up. |
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It's a funny thing, but despite the fact that science fiction and fantasy are my genre fiction of choice, I never liked Lord of the Rings. |
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Psychological absorption is closely related to fantasy proneness and indeed, the two constructs might not be truly discriminable. |
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The painting showed itself to me in all its fantasy and all its enchantment. |
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In fantasy leagues, you don't have to pay him millions and millions, softening the blow if he ends up failing to meet your standards. |
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Some argue that this is a fantasy because nuclear weapons, and chemical and biological weapons, cannot be disinvented. |
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In his personal time, Stephen blogs for his several fantasy hockey leagues. |
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The dividing line between celluloid fantasy and the bountifully adorned starlets making their acceptance speeches gets blurred. |
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A second fantasy duology, set in the West at the time of Darwin, was World Without End and Sea Without a Shore. |
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Three first-round picks stepped up their games this season to the benefit of their fantasy basketball managers. |
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We are not interested in fantasy, horror, or more conventional SF themes such as space opera, time travel, first contact, or alternate worlds. |
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Over the past month, they're the two most valuable pitchers in all of fantasy baseball. |
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We saw pictures of dollhouses and all their miniature contents in the catalogs, but that was a fantasy world for us. |
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They say Carnival is an escape from reality and gives people the chance to participate in a little fantasy for two days. |
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There certainly seems to be a streak of fantasy or perhaps escapism involved. |
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It has an element of fantasy and escapism, which has led viewers to say it depicts some kind of extreme. |
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The 33-year-old southpaw is nothing more than a late-round gamble in standard mixed fantasy leagues. |
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Maybe I dreamed it, or perhaps the dream was what the shop sold, a fantasy of southern warmth conjured up like a charm in the chilly north. |
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Other than that, the world would be a Utopia, void of the overly verbose descriptions of fantasy dreamscapes that plague today's society. |
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They prefer to squander tens of billions a year clinging to the fantasy of a drug-free world. |
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Degeneration theory, then, can be said to operate according to a fantasy of necrophobia at the social level. |
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The chips allow us to explore all avenues from fact finding down to complete fantasy worlds and everything in between. |
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The novel has resonance in the real world if only because fantasy must have something to fantasticate. |
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His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world. |
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In this fantasy sequence, she is hardly, as the Crown insisted, an innocent, unsuspecting victim. |
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Vanderjagt not only is kicking better but also scoring more than anyone else, according to PFW's fantasy football's scoring system. |
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What a wonderful thing fantasy is when we can suspend the responsibly rule for a while. |
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It has the kinky freedoms of sexual fantasy, the logic of the dream, the barking mad allure of Salvador Dali's finest moments. |
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In part it is because it so successfully juggles fantasy and reality, wish-fulfilment and the daily grind of life. |
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Not only did we spend most of the first day of the year in the car, our fantasy football team lost our league's Super Bowl. |
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In its savagery, the massacre stages the white supremacist fantasy of genocide. |
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She should have been out eating lunch with Barnes at Goldman's, not in some fantasy land. |
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Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior? |
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War of Glory is a 3D fantasy MMORPG themed with battles taken place within three parallel universes and an overlapping one. |
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I plan on running a mailbag each day, so feel free to send me any and all playoff questions that you have for your fantasy teams. |
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Ken Shirley, who was somehow in his fantasy land, started talking about taniwha. |
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This city is often described as one of dreams and fantasy, of tinselish make-believe. |
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It is a fantasy film released at the height of the sword-and-sorcery craze. |
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The town described by Kipling in Plain Tales from the Hills seemed a wonderfully absurd Victorian fantasy. |
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Most commentators, including Bashir, noticed the personal elements in this regressive fantasy land. |
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Their fantasy of Englishness did not include the literary Bengali babu, for whom they felt contempt and distrust. |
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It appears that the early 1980s were a kind of watershed for the sword and sorcery fantasy genre. |
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Through fantasy play, children can readdress these issues in activities with other children. |
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Sometimes England feels like a big country, squeezed into a tiny, Alice in Wonderland, miniature, fantasy land. |
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A fabrication woven from fear, anxiety, fantasy and myth formed the backcloth for the initial encounter between Europeans and Africans. |
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While I shy away from science fiction entirely, fantasy shall always be in my heart. |
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The patient begins to identify with the child being beaten, imagines enjoying such treatment, and develops a masochistic fantasy. |
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Unfortunately, with the inclement weather, the fantasy of foxy local fauna out in boots and rucksacks wasn't realised. |
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I have already begun to fall back into my fantasy land, my mind's safe haven. |
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He had this great idea to involve people in participating in writing a short fantasy story. |
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Imagined revenge for the Clearances and the totem abolition of private lairdship is the prevailing fantasy on The Mound. |
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It is more a picaresque novel with the journey motif at the centre and fantasy thrown in for spice. |
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Collins has no truck with the notion that his fledging career has a rags to riches plotline beloved of comic book fantasy. |
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Is the studio clandestinely exploring the relationship between superhero fantasy and humanity's eternal quest for the divine? |
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Princess Ai is a great character because she feels like my alter ego, but in a fantasy setting. |
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Because how can the real thing possibly compete with a million fantasy endings, constructed in a million minds? |
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Call me stuck in a genre, but most of what I read is science fiction and fantasy. |
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It's a light fantasy piece about a dad dragon giving a pi-jaw to his dragon son, and I just can't seem to settle it anywhere. |
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She does not fulfil his fantasy of a woman loyal to men or passively victimized by them. |
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He would just curl up in a fetal position in the tour bus and talk to fantasy friends that lived inside of his head. |
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Lisa's collection consisted mostly of some science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and computer manuals of varying sorts. |
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He resolves to build a monument to nineteenth century ingenuity and invention that will blend fantasy and reality. |
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The ending felt to me like a hyperrealistic fantasy sequence by a non-objective narrator. |
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This is the cultural fantasy of concert music at its most potent and disconcerting. |
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The sports talk station gives you a succession of men whose absorption in a fantasy world is, to me, borderline insane. |
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The fantasy is unfolding almost invisibly in Prakash Talkies, a decrepit theater with shocking pistachio green walls. |
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Using a fantasy woman to extract myself physically from the island is analogous to breaking up and finding someone new. |
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Living in her fantasy kept her from paying attention insomuch that she ran into someone behind her as she worked. |
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But he said anyone who suggested the port would have a cloud of dust hovering over it was in fantasy land. |
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Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two. |
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And somehow, by the late twentieth century, the gorgeously baroque fantasy of space flight turned out to be a technical possibility. |
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The Oedipal fantasy in the play and its realization in the life of the primal horde may be extended to a view of revolution in modern society. |
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Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too. |
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Many fantasy epics give us colorful enemies with distinct personalities to confuse us. |
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We have to resist engagement in the concoction of large inspiriting narratives, because they so easily seduce in fantasy or ideology. |
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Since escapist fantasy isn't always congruent with second-home-owner reality, we checked in with the experts for tips on buying smart. |
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For the bardolators the answer is simply that we sail off into the world of fantasy. |
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It is quite a fantasy to have a whole people consider you divine after all. |
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Now the other, perhaps rather obvious point that Jameson raises, is the relation between fantasy and ideology. |
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The narrative combines the fantasy play with interpolations of grown-ups' real speech in a separate collage. |
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If you've ever had a Tarzan fantasy, the Monteverde Cloud Forest is just the place to try zinging through the treetops. |
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It's ironic that a brand born out of a beach-house fantasy of abandoning the rat race has served only to pleasantly complicate their lives. |
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The post-disaster setting seemed the sublimated fantasy of a disgruntled pencil-pusher. |
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They like secrets, intrigue and fantasy and we are going to talk to them through Bruno. |
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We have evolved a fantasy of self-determination that seems to have put fate out of business. |
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When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site. |
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Her mental condition slowly deteriorates with her growing dependence on a fantasy she is unable to control. |
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A Croation prison camp may be reopened as a fantasy prison camp for wannabe political prisoners. |
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He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him. |
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It's a masterwork of narrative mutation, of horrendous flights of fatal fantasy locked inside the brain of a truly troubled soul. |
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Marie has an active fantasy life, and the imaginings of the specter of her husband seem to be just the start of her mind's wandering. |
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You really got a funny look on your face, when I was talking about my fantasy public flogging session on Benny. |
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Life in a setting of such spectacular natural and man-made beauty, with rooms that come and go as one pleases, seems an impossible fantasy. |
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Storm clouds, rain, fog, mist, and snow often dramatize the settings and heighten the fantasy of such regal scenes. |
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But the cusp between a fantasy world and the natural one, between fairyland and Bognor Regis, has fascinated writers and artists for centuries. |
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The customers' interactions with the dancers provided not just proof of heterosexual identity, but also a fantasy of sexual potency. |
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Anyone who imagines a perfect bureaucracy really is living in a world of fantasy. |
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And Errol Flynn in some pirate movie had a very, very potent effect on my 5-year-old imagination, and later fantasy life. |
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This time, he had posted several titles of fantasy books on the chalkboard, and then let us imperviously vote. |
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The paintings of Fra Carnevale include striking examples of architectural fantasy and expertly calculated mathematical perspective. |
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Modern academics see lycanthropy as a fantasy which reveals fundamental aspects of modern personality. |
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Visually elaborate, the film brings us to the furthermost bounds of fantasy and horror. |
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Star Wars or Lord of the Rings create cliques of individuals who share their collective fantasy in a way that is still separate. |
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This was the second time I've earnestly sat down to Yu Lik Wai's odder-than-odd futurist fantasy since it premiered at Cannes last year. |
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The cover, then as now, was a moral imperialist fantasy that appealed to parts of the Left. |
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The game's audio is a fantastic display of fantasy mixed with mystery, compelling wales and engulfing RPG style ear candy. |
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Children's literature has been full of fantasy elements since the year dot, but inexplicably, this is the one that has really taken off. |
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Once a cult activity among sports fanatics, fantasy games are going mainstream. |
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But if I'd hoped that somehow our shared experience that night had gone both ways, I was soon cured of that fantasy. |
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The site missed the news that the distinctively daffy television presenter has been named the top British secret fantasy figure. |
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It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy. |
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Can Kylie bear the weight of fantasy required to sustain such a role? |
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A sense of girlish fantasy and romance underlies these works, one that is tinged with sickness and mortality as well as that creepy airlessness which Todd has made her own. |
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In the process, they create works that subvert the Utopia of corporate musicianship, which advertises the fantasy of a seamless computer-aided sound reproduction. |
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Visions of exotic beauties like Nefertiti, legends of mummified pharaohs and the towering presence of the pyramids have made Egypt a fantasy place. |
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McKenzie paints landscapes that are part reality, part fantasy, amalgams of Australian and European places that get squeezed together in the artist's imagination. |
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When sound and music are rendered, something previously inexpressible can be revealed, and the concert hall can become a site to engage our desires and fantasy lives. |
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There's no doubt that our fantasy world can be very juicy and seductive. |
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By discussing her mammary travails so openly, Jolie runs the risk of messing with the fantasy. |
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These people are living in a fantasy world, with fairies and pixies. |
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Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it? |
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The closeness to, but difference from, the male fantasy provides a visual metaphor for the conflict between male and female representations of female space. |
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For me, all fantasy writing is specifically about one conflict, the conflict between the way we think the world is and the way we feel it ought to be. |
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Hope is not just a thing, a fantasy, a concept or an abstraction. |
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The movie drifts in and out of fantasy worlds, where hustlers speak in iambic pentameter or hop on a plane to Rome without any thought of passports. |
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Every conspiracy theory starts with an information vacuum, which then tumbles into fantasy. |
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What I do know is that there is a lot of hot air, claim, sheer fantasy and scaremongering being put about which seems designed to strangle any plans at birth. |
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Her fantasy of their leaving London for a jet set humanitarian life in Australia or South Africa was delusional. |
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Conceptually, creating a fantasy world unto itself is a more dynamic and immersive approach to the book. |
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They allow us, for a while, to indulge in a fantasy of futurism. |
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Are there any more sexy, campy, sci-fi fantasy movies like this out there? |
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Kremlin officials deny they dispatched any column across the border on Thursday, slamming the allegation as fantasy. |
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I suppose there's a kind of vicarious fantasy in watching someone else eat huge amounts of fattening foods in order to gain 30 pounds and win a contest. |
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Designer Harry Rice completed the aloha fantasy by bringing in full-grown palm trees and other foliage for the two air-conditioned tents where the 300 guests were entertained. |
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The 1980s saw Delany devote most of his energy to the even more marginal form connected to science fiction called fantasy fiction or sword and sorcery. |
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It is an artist's rendering of some space-age fantasy land of the future. |
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Children have fantasy lives so rich and combustible that rigging them with lies is like putting a propeller on a rocket. |
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At the basic level Scarlett is a tempestuous heroine out of a bodice-ripping historical novel, a focus for fantasy projection on the part of far more sedate women. |
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Harry Potter got there first and the ker-ching of cash registers the world over proved audiences had a taste for fantasy and magic, wizards and elves. |
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