Sentence examples for human fantasy from inspiring English sources

Such games can be fun, Mr. Feng insisted, but their broad popularity also reveals a darker side to human fantasy.

"Defying Gravity," to use a song title from another musical with a flying witch (the long-running "Wicked"), has doubtless been a human fantasy since a Neanderthal glimpsed his first bird.

The final chorus warns us that the human fantasy of earthly escape is by definition limited, that Lindbergh's flight has showed the possible "without letting us forget the unattainable".

In proposing a competition to build remotely operated robots with human skills, the Defense Department is tapping into a deep vein of human fantasy and fear that goes back at least as far as Greek mythology -- in which characters including Pygmalion, Daedalus and Hephaestus endowed statues with human qualities.

Johan told Yossi Milo Gallery the title "Until The Kingdom Comes" referred not to religion nor to nature but to the human fantasy of blissful resolution.

If there is a single recurrent theme in Ted Chiang's work, it's the attempt to square the circle between human fantasies of belief, and the perceived certainties of a rational, scientific worldview.

It is these rich, otherworldly qualities of the everyday environment cast into shadow that stir what the poet Louis Aragon described as "the whole fauna of human fantasies, drifting and luxuriating in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness".

Their chief figure was Bruno Bauer, a young lecturer in theology, who was developing the idea that the Christian Gospels were a record not of history but of human fantasies arising from emotional needs and that Jesus had not been a historical person.

At this point in society, porn might not be taboo anymore, but scientifically speaking, we still don't know very much about it or about human fantasies.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell describes the importance of our symbols and myths: "It has always been the prime function of mythology & rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back".

The film is in many ways a record of their friendship, as was ET: a two-hander about a small, lonely child who befriends a non-human fantasy figure who struggles with English and turns out to need rescuing.