Whether we're talking about retouched profile photos or discreet de-tagging of unflattering snapshots, Facebook is a form of fantasy, and we'd do well to remember that.
Melodrama is a form of fantasy that proceeds according to its own childish and somewhat egoistic logic; hero and heroine are pure, anyone who opposes them is a villain, and the purity that has exposed them to risks must ensure their eventual safety and happiness.
How a thing is made has a great deal to do with its cost, and thus the fantasy of ownership ("fancy" is a shortened form of "fantasy").
A nickname grants ethereal status to a player and elevates him to a platform where kids can aspire to be like them; it is a form of escapism and fantasy to want to be like Thunder or Hammer, and they are global in nature".
This folly, I know, is a form of regression, an eternal fantasy clearly fuelled in childhood by Arthur Rackham's twisted bark, Laura Ingalls Wilder's little houses, tales of rope ladders strung between branches, driftwood and tumbledown cabins up mountains.
A delicious set piece shows men and boys playing the ultimate form of fantasy football – a match with no ball.
For the first 15 minutes or so, this form of fantasy football flourished as a side collectively worth £25m – yes, £13m less than Aguero – strolled around enjoying 69 per cent of the ball.
By encompassing all these different facets of city living, open-world game development is approaching a form of urban planning – albeit a fantasy version, in which the designer has near-godlike agency.
I don't agree that it's a subject most people would rather not confront — on the contrary, it seems to me a subject that people are extremely eager to confront in the form of fantasy and drama.
The story "Manhunt," also takes the form of fantasy — with Gina taking on the role of a Daytona Beach "bounty huntress" who uses her wits and her simmering sexuality to nab the baddies.
Realism is a species of fantasy that's much more integrated and hard-core than fantasy itself, but if you are ready to come to grips with the inevitable slipperiness of most available facts, you come to recognize that realism is not a direct approach to the truth so much as it is the most concentrated form of fantasy.
