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Discover LudwigThe phrase "mere fantasy" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is purely imaginary or a figment of one's imagination. Example: The idea of a world without poverty and inequality may seem like mere fantasy to some, but many activists and organizations are working towards making it a reality.
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Steampunk is more than mere fantasy.
"For mere fantasy is never enough.
Was it all mere fantasy or fabrication?
An incredible prospect is not mere fantasy.
Projections into the future can often become mere fantasy escape.
But it is at any rate mere fantasy.
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The trial, he wrote, had been based on mere fantasies and delusions.
For me, those towering peaks with vast lift networks and seemingly infinite trails of deep powder were mere fantasies, to be fulfilled in a future life, when I own a private jet and finance super PACs for kicks.
But even if her youthful wanderings into nasty parts of town are mere fantasies — a possibility the book admits but doesn't encourage — what do they reveal that isn't plain from Dickinson's writing?
"There's an important difference between rugged optimism that is willing to take tremendous risks for the sake of a just and free society and mere fantasies of endless conquest and continuous victory," Mr. Miller said.
In Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, the happy, homoerotic gambolling of naked Roman soldiers in the surf is undercut by the knowledge of the bloodshed to come, while the scenes of male lovers playing in floral nature in Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour are mere fantasies of incarcerated wretches.
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