Recent Examples on the WebThis is the Beyoncé I’m most drawn to: the fantasist, going non-lexical, twirling among her gays and her girls.—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar leads the anthology of four short films based on stories by British literary fantasist Roald Dahl.—Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024 The modern reading public has resisted relinquishing its settled idea about Robert Louis Stevenson as a romantic fantasist, but in his day he was considered one of the best essayists of his generation.—Phillip Lopate, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2024 The book features a typically Hannah-esque collection of over-the-top neurotics, obsessives, fantasists and narcissists: feuding siblings, irrational parents, downtrodden in-laws.—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 And then the fantasist in me later will right the wrongs, color in my past.—Miriam Katz, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023 Would that our climate fantasists could be so clear-eyed and practical.—WSJ, 27 July 2023 Partly because this particular fantasist was being indicted by the Feds at the time.—Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023 The Colorado suit, brought by the security director at Dominion Voting Systems, exposes claims by Trump fantasist Sidney Powell, elaborated by Giuliani at an infamous press conference as hair coloring ran down his cheek, that the company’s machines had been rigged.—Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 16 June 2022
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