How to Use fantasist in a Sentence

fantasist

noun

• 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
• 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
• Designed by the gifted fantasist Thomas Heatherwick, the steel folly has had a rough time adapting to reality.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 July 2021
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• This was one of many damaging claims that Parnas made to Maddow, prompting Trump’s supporters to dismiss him as a self-serving fantasist.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2020
• But publicly breaking bread with a white supremacist and a black fantasist has meaning and consequences.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Citigroup said an enigmatic money manager who accused the bank of owing him $11.6 billion is a fantasist and a fraud.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• But taking a moment to dismiss some of the pathetic fantasist reporting feels like an important step.
  — SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Le Guin—famed fantasist-poet and anti-capitalist icon—kept at it until her death seven years later, not long after many of the best posts were collected for this book.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• Partly because this particular fantasist was being indicted by the Feds at the time.
  — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023
• 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
• Though their aesthetics were dramatically different each was a fantasist in his own way.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 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
• Buzzati was a fantasist whose short, dreamlike stories visited horror upon the mundane.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For Vogue, then led by the fantasist editor Diana Vreeland, Manzoni transformed models into otherworldly creatures, adorned by zebra stripes or glittering with rhinestones.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
• 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
• In that bruising character study pitting self-delusion against political idealism, Hurt and Raúl Juliá played reluctant cellmates in a Brazilian prison, the former a gay fantasist, the latter a hardline leftist revolutionary.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• But such elaborate attributions were often used, winkingly, by Greek fantasists.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• The museum embodies the complicated legacy of Viollet-le-Duc, who was for much of the 20th century considered a fantasist, a Walt Disney-like figure who invented his own version of historic architecture.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024