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Example sentences for: fantasy
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The level of hostility has been exaggerated, but through it the real Washington, rather than a screenwriter's fantasy, is recognizable.
Bob Greene reports that Jordan--the greatest basketball player of all time--was motivated by a sports fantasy: that he'd be batting for the White Sox in his first professional baseball game, and would hit a home run, round the bases and, never stopping running, just head straight from home plate to the tunnel leading out of the stadium, disappearing in front of the awed crowd.
And we have to prepare for bad news, or at least bad news in the context of our Star Trek fantasy.
Historical facts aside, the Singlish Affair is the brain-child of John DeFrancis ( The Chinese Language, Fact and Fantasy , Univ. of Hawaii, 1984), a parodying bulesque pointing up certain features of languages in general and of Chinese in particular.
There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.
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