Sentence examples for abiding fantasy from inspiring English sources

Late-night comedians balance their art upon a deep and abiding fantasy: that they are apolitical, that they have no impact whatever on the daylight-hour workings of the electoral process.

Over the past couple of years, as the real estate market and the economy both sank, the abiding fantasy of some New Yorkers has been that the market will slip low enough to afford them a weekend house in the country.

By now, this four-year veteran of Japan's hostess club scene says she is scarcely troubled by the stereotype that the Japanese businessmen flock to this bar and dozens of others like it in Roppongi, one of Tokyo's largest entertainment districts, because of their abiding fantasy about sex with a Western woman.

The latter functions partly as a device to enable the controlled release of information about a past trauma concerning his role in his sister's death, and partly - more interestingly - to analyse and amplify the book's governing idea, which is the narrator's abiding fantasy that he is half cockroach.

These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance.

I am a big fan of a nap, and one of my abiding fantasies is that one day I will work in an office where I have a dedicated room where I can go for a little lie down after lunch.

It took the release of their debut album Oracular Spectacular to change all that: a psych-rock, electro-pop gambol through abiding themes of fantasy, whether it be the childhood play-fights of Weekend Wars or the stunted rock-star dreams of Time to Pretend.

He observes, "That was a ludicrous fantasy for a law-abiding blackjack professional in the age of Al Qaeda — my dreams were September 10 dreams".

Their genius is felt not in the ready, perhaps instant, recognizability of their work - although their art requires such distinctiveness to maintain its persuasion - but in its abiding ability to transport its beholders by oscillating between fantasy and reality, banality and magic, intimacy and universality, the dreamt and the dumb.

He then started to build a setting with Subspace events (listed on Fetlife) where his guests could feel like they were in a safe space to express their fantasies, including the implementation of dungeon monitors to ensure attendees were abiding by rules.

Poverty is an abiding theme.