Sentence examples for collective fantasy from inspiring English sources

Behind it all is a collective fantasy of invulnerability, omnipotence and eternal life.

That first generation enjoyed a collective fantasy based on a few films and videos.

In this sense, Honnold's specialty — free-soloing — is a distillation of the entire climbing world's collective fantasy life.

Perrotta's twenty-first-century suburbs are dimmer; they have drifted to the periphery of our collective fantasy life.

Populists are just different elites who try to grab power with the help of a collective fantasy of political purity.

And Frances believes that both psychiatry and the public have benefitted in a less tangible way from the collective fantasy that the DSM was a genuine scientific tool.

Most Hollywood films, after all, tweak a mass audience's collective fantasies of sex and power.

Movies turn this lapse into a principle, manufacturing collective fantasies that are often more vivid, more real, than what actually happened.

Specifically, it's the outraged but humane attitude of comedy in the early 1960's, when mushroom-shaped clouds figured prominently in collective fantasies, that is summoned here.

Beckham, like Diana before him, looked very good and said very little -- the perfect sort of person onto which a willing public could displace its collective fantasies.

Whether they were painted simply, as in Stratford, or done with the genius of a Bosch, these were collective fantasies of spectacular power.