Sentence examples for merely fantasy from inspiring English sources

The ad was merely fantasy for viewers, fodder for shoe aficionados.

Seeing oneself as acting in a movie or a play is not merely fantasy or indulgence; it is fundamental to how people work out who it is they are, and may become.

More damningly still, because our decision to affirm who we are is viewed instead as the embracing of a degraded status, we become not merely fantasy objects of contempt, but criminally negligent citizens as well.

Maggie's "We are the American dream, but alas, merely your fantasy".

It's unclear if this is really happening or is merely speculative fantasy in Clarissa's traumatized mind.

Technically, it has characters and a plot, but the characters are what E.M. Forster would call "flat" — in fact, they're practically cardboard cut-outs, which is appropriate in a book about superficiality — and it's often difficult to distinguish what is "actually" happening from what is merely a fantasy in the narrator's brain.

Kim aims to make living food "not merely a fantasy".

She characterized pornography as an industry of damaging objectification and abuse, not merely a fantasy realm.

Is she real to Francis but merely a fantasy to the middle-aged, deeply disappointed Andrew?

Officer Valle's lawyers have argued that their client's communications, disturbing as they were, were merely dark fantasies that he exhibited on Internet Web sites used by thousands of people.

"If they don't frustrate us they are merely figures of fantasy".