How to Use fantasist in a Sentence

fantasist

noun
  • 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
  • No surprise, then, that Alkaitis turns out to be the book’s most helpless fantasist.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But Verne’s influence here is less as a fantasist and more as a writer of moral fables.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • The movie turns the poet—a wild fantasist and a beguiler—into a stick figure of goodness.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Dylan is a catch — all wonderful kind of fantasist, and Billy is at the other extreme.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • But publicly breaking bread with a white supremacist and a black fantasist has meaning and consequences.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • No Hopper exhibition leaves you with a vision of a cheery fantasist, and there’s no exception here.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But taking a moment to dismiss some of the pathetic fantasist reporting feels like an important step.
    — SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Though their aesthetics were dramatically different each was a fantasist in his own way.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But when evil men have easy access to rapid-fire lethal weapons—those invariably chosen by pathetic fantasists wanting to make their mark—the outcomes are predictable.
    — Simon Chapman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Partly because this particular fantasist was being indicted by the Feds at the time.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023
  • The novel follows Mathilda, a fantasist preoccupied with the past.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Designed by the gifted fantasist Thomas Heatherwick, the steel folly has had a rough time adapting to reality.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 July 2021
  • With his cinema of misfits and monsters, the outlaw fantasist embraces the mainstream on his own terms, our harrowing times having caught up with him rather than the other way around.
    — Steve Erickson, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Buzzati was a fantasist whose short, dreamlike stories visited horror upon the mundane.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 June 2018
  • For years, fantasists who peddle the fiction that Shakespeare didn’t write the plays attributed to him have failed to get Wikipedia to backdate doubts about his authorship.
    — James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
  • Today, Louise Woodward is Louise Mensch, a show-woman and a fantasist of world-class ability.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 July 2017
  • The lead-up to Kennedy’s circus of sci-fi fantasists and food bloggers provides an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory to the right.
    — Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But such elaborate attributions were often used, winkingly, by Greek fantasists.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • The candlelight costumes of the ghostly showgirls reference the legendary Ziegfeld stars dressed by fantasists from Erte to Adrian.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
  • In a series that is built on doubles, on multiple selves, on simulacra that take over, Lynch is also self-multiplying, splitting off the analyst from the fantasist, the thinker from the creator.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
  • Millions voted for the autocrat-envious man in the carnival mirror, the fantasist and his enablers who through indifference and venality sent so many of them to hospital emergency rooms.
    — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ruiz, who’s one of the great directorial fantasists, relies on hallucinatory effects to evoke shifts in time, intimate imaginings, and literary creation.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
  • The Phantom and Norma are both attention-hungry spiders in glittering lairs; both are fantasists whose faces, either twisted or simply aging, become their obsessive focus.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Now an entire country is in much the same position that Delgatti's associates from Araraquara have often found themselves in, never knowing how seriously to take a serial fantasist.
    — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The vampire series, of course, would go on to become something less personal and more fantasist, as well as more intellectually vigorous, which is what occasioned my visit to New Orleans.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
  • But the president is, first and foremost, a fantasist — one who cares more about projecting the image of himself as an economic nationalist than about implementing policies that benefit American exporters.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Scott is depicted as an unstable fantasist at first, repeatedly seeming to blackmail Thorpe (and writing Thorpe’s mother a seven-page letter including details about their affair).
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 July 2018
  • Unable to accept the real reasons Germany had lost, Hitler, a fantasist since his adolescence, took refuge in a dreamworld of conspiracy theory in which Jews were allocated a uniquely malevolent role.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020

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