And any one who wishes to understand the sense in which it is true has only to contemplate that fantasy and fallacy in stone; a gate with an open road beside it.
There was scarcely anything in that rocky waste but the dwarf trees of olive; a poetic fantasy woven about that war in after ages described them as hindered even in their wood-cutting by the demons of that weird place.
It recalls one of these typical medieval speculations, full of the very fantasy of free will, in which the schoolmen tried to fancy the fate of every herb or animal if Adam had not eaten the apple.
The Chesterton children saw their first glimpses of fantasy through the framework of a toy-theatre of which their father was carpenter, scene-painter and scene-shifter, author and creator of actors and actresses a few inches high.
The burning blue of the plumage on the neck had reminded him of blue fire, and blue fire had reminded him of some dark fantasy about blue devils, before he had fully realised even that it was a peacock he was staring at.
Her work appears always to have had the creation of fairy fantasy as a definite purpose.
Le Spectre de la Rose, composed to the melting music of Weber’s Invitation à la Valse, is a fantasy of a girl who falls asleep in her chair after returning from a ball.
His Symphonic Poem Tamara and his fantasy for pianoforte Islamey are remarkable for that semi-oriental exotic spirit so prevalent in Russian music.
On the one side is the lethargy of India, on the other China drugged with opium, while above all rises the fantasy of the East, the dogma of metempsychosis.
Evidently the subject of the Holy Grail, heavy, lugubrious, massive, with an elusive fantasy about it, appealed to the wearied hearts of New York.
In the other mood she was full offantasy and inconsequent raillery.
Her mockery was not kept for her followers alone, and her voice would become harsh, and her mockery losefantasy and humour, when she spoke of what seemed to her scientific materialism.
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He never lost one whit of his interest in fantasy fiction, and has become a keen judge of what is best in this field.
Next month Mr. Schwartz, in "How to Collect Fantasy Fiction," takes up the seven Munsey magazines and the English periodicals containing fantastic fiction.
I, myself, as a reader, will stop reading stf when the fantasy element is dropped completely.
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The sentiment of loyalty was carried so far among the Egyptians that it was considered a duty to obey their kings even in the caprices of their fantasy and pride.
The figures, chiefly allegorical, were life size and in the richness of fantasy and learning that they display it is permissible to recognize the help and advice of Holbein's friend, the Chancellor, Sir Thomas More.
In the hawthorn shoot, central in Plate 52, opposite, the law is seen very slightly, yet it rules all the play and fantasy of the varied leaves, gradually depressing their lines as they are set lower.
Here also the solid ground-ice falls away a little under the surface, leaving a cavern 8 or 9 feet deep, on the rock side of which every possible glacial fantasy was to be found.
For, a little fantasy of man's own will May quail this matter, and utterly it spill.
If ye show me anything I can soon perceive it; But I was forbid by Reason On mine own fantasy to run, Or to take any presumption Of mine own wit.
I had conjured up the fantasy of a system which would contain the whole of life, be as reliable as a table of logarithms, foresee all possible emergencies and offer entirely trustworthy rules of action.
No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.
No, excuse me, I meant it for you, sir, who were crying out that you had no time to lose with madmen, while no one better than yourself knows that nature uses the instrument of human fantasy in order to pursue her high creative purpose.
Both resorted often to the elf-land of fantasy and romance.
Now the highest imagination is concerned about the soul of things; it may or may not inspire the Fantasy that peoples with images the interlunar vague.
And if our fantasy fail of such height, What marvel, since no eye above the sun Hath ever travel'd?
But this blue thing was neither sturdy covering nor the brilliant fantasyit meant to be.
Palms stood up glittering, touched by the moon to something madder than their daylight fantasyof form.
But when he thus had shut off perhaps the greatest line of communication with the outer world, his fantasy began to labor at a higher pressure.
Just as the candle on the table fought against the darkness, so his fantasy rebelled against the room's arrangements, and thus it lost its hold, everything disappeared, and the dreadful surroundings frightened him to bed.
All science was useless to a spirit going downwards, and which had lost all interest in life; the brain had battled, until tired, and the fantasy labored without a regulator.
Those naked walls were a middle age cloister cell where asceticism in image, and emptiness in the middle hurried the famined fantasy to gnaw itself and bring forth lighter or darker fancies only to become extricated from nothing.
The fun that makes the soul expand must have in it the lift of wings and the glimpsing fantasy of flight.
The door of fantasy stands always open for the rectory household to enter, singly or together.
I was perfectly convinced that the curtain had been partially raised upon some fantasy in which Professor Deeping figured.
There, amid that peaceful Kentish landscape, fantasy danced and horrors unknown lurked in waiting.
Then reigned within my loftyfantasy One crucified, disdainful and ferocious In countenance, and even thus was dying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fantasy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
