Presidential conviction has various nuances: narcissistic fantasy ("What matters is my resolve"), spurious empiricism ("On the other hand, Rumsfeld says the Iraqi Army is doing better in Diyala"), sheer hope ("The strategy will succeed because it has to"), teleological leap ("History will vindicate me just as it did Truman").
The first is a woefully distended scene of hermetic fantasy that matters only for its payoff: a steampunk wall panel does weird things to Agent Cooper (and, in the conceit's one droll touch, leaves him, or a version of him, shoeless).
But the statistics suggest that an impermeable border is a fantasy, no matter how much money and technology is thrown at it.
Immediately after the war, she was cast as an angel in the duo's lavish romantic fantasy, A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
You will have to excuse me on the grounds that I am, myself, a Gemini and we are known for a tendency to favour enchanting fantasies over matters of sober fact.
Minnelli and his daughter Liza finally fulfilled their dream of making a film together when exploitation movie king Samuel Z. Arkoff's American-International Pictures agreed to finance the period fantasy A Matter of Time (1976).
Garrett Martin in Paste Magazine: Girls might be an honest look at what it's like to be a recent college graduate living in New York in 2012, but that doesn't mean it's not a fantasy, no matter how dark it gets.
It also illustrated the fact that -- despite all the real female role models in their day to day lives -- the type of girls that fill their fantasy worlds matter deeply to them, too.
Ah, the Med in summer: font of everyone's escapist fantasies, no matter what their views on the sterilisation of the mentally ill.
