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We're no strangers to video games as escapism during the pandemic, especially the games that bring friends together online with simple-yet-deep gameplay.

Bridgerton initially drew mostly rave reviews from critics who praised the show’s “feminist undertones,” marathon-ability, and “frothy, silly escapism.”

From Vox

Everybody needs some escapism right now, and that’s the business we’re in.

The designs range from classic problem solving and collaborative tasks — like space-survival mission Project Artemis — to pure fun escapism.

From Digiday

Outside editors leaned into escapism this month, spending our weekends consuming culture that transported us from faraway planets to the beaches of Oahu.

If nothing else, that clarity makes sports a healthy form of escapism.

Not only is it the finest form of escapism yet invented by humans—even including laser tag, opiates and Temptation Island!

His one previous musical, the 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You, is an ode to the pleasures of old-Hollywood escapism.

Maybe, somewhere in our current favorite object of escapism, there is an obscure hunger to confront these hard facts.

You can enjoy the Taken franchise as trashy escapism or you can see it as sexually conservative propaganda.

If "escapism" be a need of man, cramped in his narrow personality, can any escape compare with the majesty of omnipresence?

They are escapism embodied, a dreamland, a scape of fantasy, the vale of telenovellas.

"They're still a far cry from reality, or even the usual escapism," said the banker.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to escapism, such as: evasion, prevention, restraint, circumvention, delay, and departure.

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

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