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Walter Mitty is a fictional character of a daydreamer in James Thurber's short story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World and Welcome to It in 1942. Thurber loosely based the character on his friend, Walter Mithoff. It was made into a film in 1947 starring Danny Kaye, with a remake directed by and starring Ben Stiller released in 2013.
Usage examples of "walter mitty".
His features were utterly nondescript, a Walter Mitty caricature of despair, and I couldn't help remembering that some of our more notable assassins have been Walter Mitty types.
The meek looking one in the blue-grey suit and the steel-rimmed spectacles was Walter Mitty.
His features were utterly nondescript, a Walter Mitty caricature of despair, and I couldn’.
For someone with Coke-bottle-thick glasses whose only previous experience in the military was army ROTC during college, it's pure Walter Mitty.
Cats named for famous personalities, real or fictional, are so named as a compliment to the namesake: Babe Ruth, Socrates, Walter Mitty, Queen Juliana, Maggie and Jiggs, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Washington.
These are the Walter Mitty types, or those who havent trained enough or have picked up an injury.
I replied, discreetly withholding that part where she described him as Walter Mitty in green drag.
Hare's old paratrooper turned out to be a Walter Mitty with no military service, one of Castle's finds had a long criminal record and the pretty girl that I had interviewed turned out to be the younger sister of an MI5 secretary.
Earnest, timid, and frail, Svetz is a kind of anti-Walter Mitty- a man thrust into exciting adventures he neither wants nor understands.