Sentence examples for grim fantasy from inspiring English sources

Incest also dominates his first novel, "The Cement Garden" (1978), a grim fantasy of abandonment, in which teen-agers become unmoored after their parents die.

It is something one might have a grim fantasy about doing but it is outrageous - and hilarious - to see it played out.

Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black woman who time-travels and saves the life of her slaveholder ancestor, but it is, in Butler's words, "a grim fantasy", not science fiction.

The dire Orwellian warning that Big Brother is watching has evolved from a grim fantasy of totalitarianism into a banal fact of life, in democratic as well as in authoritarian societies.

But, while "Power" is comparatively solemn about its protagonist's tormented double life, a grim fantasy of bad-boy authority, "Empire" is as loosey-goosey as summer stock: for all his threats, Lucious feels about as menacing as Christopher Walken's Captain Hook.

The show includes drawings that accompanied his sole novel, "The Other Side" (1908), a grim, dystopian fantasy about the decline of an isolated city named Perle.

The song is a grim escape fantasy describing a murder suicide, which "has the singer driving his car to the shore, his trunk 'bleeding' with 'broken hearts'".

Yet in this brand of fantasy, grim-faced nihilism isn't just a default philosophy; it's a foundational religion.

But reality has become far grimmer than a fantasy imagined a few months ago, in another lifetime, when the United States seemed all-powerful.

Flashing between fantasy and grim reality, he describes the tawdry downside of success (his cousin asking him for a selfie at his grandmother's funeral).

Schnabel takes his words, and Harwood's pragmatic translation, then shoots everything with the controlled abandon of a red kite, zipping about the screen, swooping in and out of flashback and the present, fantasy and grim reality with beguiling pyrotechnics.