fantasy

A travel content creator who spent years working as a cruise ship musician, he says river cruising remains a mythic fantasy for a lot of younger travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Fans of Children of Blood and Bone got a fresh glimpse of stars including Cynthia Erivo, Damson Idris and Lashana Lynch in the first trailer for the film adaptation of the popular fantasy novel.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

I’d say that’s a pretty good representation of the gap between the long-shot fantasy of midlife and an intimate understanding of how it actually turns out.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

“The collision between fantasy and reality — the land of dreams and Tinseltown and all that. But then there’s also that seedier side. It’s just totally unique in that way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

They had no wish to create some fantasy shaped in their own minds.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

As La Cruz continues to break down barriers for the LGBTQ+ community in reggaeton, the rising Venezuelan star enjoys living out his gay fantasies in his music videos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Like, if they’re experiencing an urge and are worried their fantasies are turning into plans, who can they call immediately?”

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026

His first book takes the reader from preseason fantasies through rifts within the team to the loss of his starting place and finally his exit from Millwall after nine years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The sound of fish leaping from the water interrupted my fantasies.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

So many prisoners were in the camps that it was widely fantasied among them that no free men were left outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first, real and fantasied crises led the "brothers and sisters" to make frantic telephone calls to the hospital therapists.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as I travell'd hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams.

From King John by Shakespeare, William

Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.

From For the Major A Novelette by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Even now there is fantasying here and there about seizing the Libyan oilfields or parachuting forces into Saudi Arabia, but no one really believes it could happen.

From Time Magazine Archive

I love the romanticism of Williamsburg, but perhaps we can revive the rugged American Dream without fantasying it into a never-never land impossible of realization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not much more to him than speaking with a will; than fantasying on the flute in an animated strain.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Carlyle, Thomas

In passion—even in mere fire of the brain—one grasps not so much at the pen as at the string; and in that state alone does musical fantasying succeed better than poetic.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich