Following the British travellers and the guide, Mosby was going once more through an odd and complex fantasy.
OK, so you may have gathered I'm more of a fan of first-person shooters and action games than the clumsily titled Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) that usually feature complex fantasy worlds of elves and wizards and are the more usual staple diet of the sci-fi enthusiast.
Two protagonists navigate Singh's complex fantasy, breathing life into sculptures.
A painstaking meditation on marital fidelity, it swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman's complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies -- and fears -- about another man.
The heroine of this fictional meditation on marital fidelity is a New England veterinarian torn between her complex feelings for her husband (a minister) and her equally complex fantasies about another man (an old housemate).
The boisterous scene of wenhua re was less congenial to Wang, who detected symptoms of a "messiah complex," the fantasy that culture and society could be transformed, in one swoop, by collective will power and action — the same fantasy that, he felt, had spurred the Chinese revolution.
An example of the latter is Goltzius's large "Young Man Holding a Skull and Tulip," an inordinately complex vanitas fantasy in brown ink.
With the "passionate relationship" between potter and clay as its focus, the show runs from conventional to way-out wacky and from complex structural fantasies to simple bowls designed for holding apples.
My encomium to a classic is hardly needed, but L'Engle's creation of complex but fantasy-tweaked kids facing fantastic settings and situations that are extravagant but coherent, enriched by a heady blend of science and spirituality, is a spark to imagination that's all the more potent for its introspective, psychological specificity.
Kind, self-interested, bumbling and brave, with a paunch and a walrus mustache, Henry seeks forgiveness in ways that are beautifully complex, his fantasies and guilt intersecting with a genuine desire to help the people whose lives his careless gesture has undone.
David Lynch's masterly "Mulholland Drive," for example, slowly reveals itself to be the complex wish-fulfillment fantasy of a debased, lovelorn actress.
