Sentence examples for childish fantasy from inspiring English sources

On screen, vampires, aliens, superheroes, childish fantasy, gross-out comedy or preposterous spectacle would probably prevail.

That is exactly what Tolstoy writes, because he wants us to experience a little shock of readjustment as the adult meets the otherworldliness of childish fantasy.

In this Whitbread award-winner, Frayn recreates a world in which war has demolished the boundaries between childish fantasy and adult reality.

Richard Dawkins - Academic and writer Forget childish fantasy by adult authors, The Lion Children by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice (Orion, £17.99), is childhood reality for everyone.

In the end, Jessup gives up the childish fantasy of pedaling his bicycle furiously to catch up with the setting sun and considers hitting the road instead.

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.

Such childish fantasies were not unusual: she had herself been given to make-believe and pretending.

As Mr. Brown instructs in the virtues of damask wallpaper and whimsical picture framing, the slacker husbands pursue childish fantasies.

When it came to Europe or America, even people supposedly hardened by time and experience were susceptible to almost childish fantasies.

Perhaps the idea is that the makeup, the theatrical posturing and the, uh, butchery lyrics are merely the childish fantasies and expressions of big, clownish kids.

There is no shortage of others involving gags about TV remote controls, beer bellies, failed attempts at do-it-yourself, childish fantasies and bodily functions.