Sentence examples for sentimental fantasy from inspiring English sources

He avoids conventionally picturesque scenes because he is after reality unvarnished by sentimental fantasy.

The sentimental fantasy of the island romance is turned on its ear.

Namier and his followers dismissed the idea that Burke had a mind and a philosophy or a set of influential arguments as a sentimental fantasy indulged by amateurs.

It is a girlish, sentimental fantasy, and aptly describes the power of fashion, but it also happens to be completely at odds with the Prada style.

Every four years we all like to indulge in the sentimental fantasy that we're communing with the pure and noble spirit of the classical Greek past.

It dared to spin a sentimental fantasy out of a grisly tragedy, offsetting the tang of sulphur with the sweet taste of candyfloss.

He considered it a form of cheating, a necessary evil by which to substantiate his unreal, sentimental fantasies.

McCabe spins sentimental fantasies that are no less nostalgic for their wall-to-wall suffering.

Various suspect and sentimental fantasies hover in the air: the hooker with a heart of gold; the sympathetic john rescuing a young woman from the degradation of sex work.

Everyone involved in this film is of the highest possible calibre, but their combined and formidable talents could not annul my queasiness that the question of Nazi war guilt and the death camps had been reimagined in terms of a middlebrow sentimental-erotic fantasy.

These can be boiled down to a sentimental and reactionary fantasy of class.