Sentence examples for ancient fantasy from inspiring English sources

Another festival title, "Cinderella Moon," combines ancient fantasy with feminism.

It's based on a trio of Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile's ancient fantasy morality tales, which predate the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

It was an article of faith for champions of Arctic exploration, who saw in the ancient fantasy of a paradise beyond the frost its modern incarnation: the dream of a northwest passage.

These ancient fantasy images are the culture's heritage and the storyteller's bounty: they contain the emotional history of the culture, its most deeply felt yearnings and fears, and they therefore have the capacity to elicit strong emotional responses from members of audiences.

And in his new book, "Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play," he shows a very similar phenomenon, the preservation of ancient fantasies by means of art, this time in a German setting.

From decoding brain activity with scanners to thought-controlled wheelchairs, from neural implants for pain to selective memory erasure for post-traumatic stress, ancient fantasies of mind reading and mind control are taking shape as medical realities.

She became more beautiful by the minute as she spoke, painstakingly applying rouge and white powder to her face, lengthening her lashes, and painting dramatic swooping black lines around her eyes, transforming herself into a creature of ancient Chinese fantasy.

The $800-million AdventhemeWorld Warsaw theme park set to break ground July 21 will feature lands dedicated to mythical creatures, ancient legends, fantasy worlds and Polish history.

Dota 2 is the sequel to Defense of the Ancients, a fantasy-themed battle game created by hundreds of volunteers who modified the real-time strategy game Warcraft 3. The follow-up was developed by Valve, which also hosted the tournament - the International - and put up $1.6m of the prize money.

For others, a fairytale is simply that: an ancient piece of fantasy folklore to warm a romantic heart.

This man specialized in Bible-based fiction until he switched gears, turning out a book full of "fantasy, ancient gods and goddesses, fabulous animals, heaven and hell," not to mention evolution.