Sentence examples for inspired by fantasy from inspiring English sources

Fantasy LARPs are set in pseudo-historical worlds inspired by fantasy literature and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons.

Todd Schorr, who grew up in New Jersey and was deeply inspired by fantasy film characters like King Kong and sundry Disney characters.

Few of the objects built to appease European taste in Oriental luxuries, or the Asian artworks inspired by fantasies of Europe, match the glories of Renaissance Europe, Ming China and Moghul India.

Very often they're inspired by fantasies of omnipotence.

The Thirteenth Hour (self-published) is an illustrated fairy-tale fantasy novel by Joshua Blum '02 that was inspired by '80s fantasy and science-fiction films.

Mr. Gruber's explanation of the work was typically idiosyncratic: He had been inspired by a fantasy in which Earth, seen from space, was empty except for a sign that read "Gone Dancing," the title of the finale.

It was inspired by the "fantasy furniture" made at the turn of the 18th century when gifted craftsmen vied with each other to create ever more elaborate objects, and was dreamt up by the Dutch designer, Tord Boontje.

Government ministers trying to contain the fallout voiced shock and disappointment with the result, which the Swiss establishment newspaper Le Temps called a "brutal sign of hostility" to Muslims that was "inspired by fear, fantasy and ignorance".

(Birtherism is often described as a species of anti-black racism, though of course it is inspired by the fantasy that our cosmopolitan President is not really African-American).

In their most recent shows, self-styled seers of the catwalks combined robotic engineering with effusive draping and scavenged-looking elements that appeared to be inspired by the fantasy worlds of the "Mad Max" films.

With a movie adaptation of World of Warcraft, which is clearly inspired by Tolkienesque fantasy, Jones is going to have a tough time competing with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, which have a wealth of literary material and pseudo-mythical backstory to draw on.