fantasy

The second season of fantasy series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” which debuted in late June, generated 8.7 million views in its first four days, a 59% decline from its first season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

You might think of this novel as a rebuttal or counterpoint to its forerunner, a book that replaces roseate campus fantasy with spikier societal conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Describing the film as a "fantasy that becomes a nightmare", Jones said: "I needed a location that could be beautifully idyllic and hopeful and then turn and become brutally unforgiving".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But any such comparisons are mere self-glorifying fantasy, for several reasons but two in particular.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

“It could be, of course, but not Malcolm’s. I believe him. If it’s a fantasy, it’s his friend’s.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Some of the songs of youth gone by are not so much memory pieces as “what if” fantasies of Mr. Louris, now age 71, about meeting Stephanie years earlier than he actually did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Then, it was described as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia - excessive fantasies and hallucinations.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Lillian Karabaic shares some advice for dealing with these kinds of persistent fantasies.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

And to specifically bring it back to Douthat’s dubious query, Diarra — either of them — is precisely the kind of woman who puts the lie to fantasies about female submissiveness.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Maybe he’d been hallucinating, or his martyrdom fantasies had gotten the better of him.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 William Shakespeare

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

From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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

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

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 Thomas Carlyle

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 Jean Paul Friedrich Richter