Sentence examples for ludicrous fantasy from inspiring English sources

I had harboured a small and ludicrous fantasy that Bennett might also have ended up spying, but am swiftly disabused.

Lawrence Durrell published a ludicrous fantasy in 1978, Livia, or Buried Alive, the second volume in his Avignon Quintet.

He observes, "That was a ludicrous fantasy for a law-abiding blackjack professional in the age of Al Qaeda — my dreams were September 10 dreams".

Of the many thousands of people involved in the movement one way or another, only a handful thought the thing to do was to form a tiny sect and blow things up in the service of a ludicrous fantasy: creating a white-youth fighting force that would join up with black nationalists, end the war and overthrow capitalism.

Today's equivalent is to be found in the ludicrous fantasies of export fetishists who whistle in the dark trying to keep up the nation's economic spirits by promising hi tech export-led growth.

Ordinary middle-class Americans have access to luxuries that would have been ludicrous fantasies for much of human history: We can buy whatever food we like at supermarkets, devices the size of our pockets allow us to access nearly every bit of information we can conceive of, and our bodily waste is spirited away to treatment facilities by a series of pipes.

In "Quainty Dainty Me," a farcical fantasy about being delicate and refined, Ms. Sokol becomes a ludicrous coloratura soprano and buffoonish ballerina.

Sam is that ludicrous Hollywood fantasy, a model child who never gets sick, never loses his temper and loves everybody all the time.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Clancy himself played up the overlap on CNN, without mentioning that the book is a ludicrous alarmist fantasy about a corporate-controlled Japan making war on America.

Astonishingly, when owning a gun is not about ludicrous macho fantasy, it is mostly seen as a matter of personal safety, like the airbag in the new Ford pick-up or avoiding secondary smoke, despite conclusive evidence that people become less safe as gun ownership rises.

Mr Lewer said the Labour group was living in a "ludicrous socialist fantasy world" and would increase council tax.