Sentence examples for playful fantasy from inspiring English sources

In private, Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard often referred to each other as Mandril and Mongoose – animal characters in a playful fantasy of courtship.

Two of the more intriguing artists create playful fantasies using lights and electronic machinery.

The first dream in "Night" is of flight and evokes playful fantasies similar to those in Chagall's huge murals on the Garnier's ceiling.

The fannish obsessiveness that animates "The Raven" is its most appealing attribute, and even Poe scholars can forgive it for discarding the biographical record in favor of playful, gruesome fantasy.

The basic Crunch atmosphere is already colorful and playful, "a fantasy playground," as Candy Tree puts it, and the bright pop elements and sight gags incorporated into the existing Crunch design immediately suggested the oversize Claes Oldenburg-inspired 1960's Italian pop furniture that Walrod and Hausman loved.

It's there in the music videos of Duke Dumont and David Zowie works of playful suburban fantasy which have grown to resemble Money Supermarket adverts.

His songs became playful narrative fantasies populated by improbable characters like the "chimbley sweep," whose song of despair ("I am a poor and a wretched boy/ A chimbley, chimbley sweep") Mr. Meloy cannot sing without a grin.

It meant I was at a playful and fantasy-ridden location.

This was either a playful mingling of fantasy and reality, or as Amis might prefer, an example of the celebrity-obsessed, self-referential media moving in ever smaller circles to cannibalise itself.

But the movie's insistently playful tone and cheesy fantasy sequences ultimately work against its ambitions, undermining a story that seethes with abuse and sexual obsession.

"His writing was sometimes playful with flirting and fantasies, but mostly lies in the area of soul-baring".