What is "fantasist"

Usage examples of "fantasist".

Burroughs was considered a fantasist, not a respectable science fiction author.

Real world excuses always come up short against fantasy accusations whenever the fantasist can point to real crimes.

My closest, oldest, best friend: the world-famous fantasist, Kercher Oliver James Crowstairs.

Egan uses this familiar setup to juxtapose two characters of radically different philosophies, based on the British mathematician Alan Turing and the medievalist, fantasist, and popular theologian C.

You only have to look at the slew of modern fantasists and fabulists out there with their urban take on horror and the lurking evils of stone and slate to see the paranoid nightmares of Smoke Ghost creeping across the rooftops all over again.

There are many kinds of writers: the highbrows, the packagers, the high fantasists, the low fantasists, the horror writers, the hard sf writers, the soft sf writers, the feminists, the series writers, the producers of movie and TV tie-ins, the sharecroppers.

Non‑politically speaking, the old lady Resham Bibi was one of the few members of the community who remained an incurable fantasist, believing (for instance) in the superstition which forbade women to climb mango trees, because a mango tree which had once borne the weight of a woman would bear sour fruit for ever more… and there was the strange fakir named Chishti Khan, whose face was so smooth and lustrous that nobody knew whether he was nineteen or ninety, and who had surrounded his shack with a fabulous creation of bamboo‑sticks and scraps of brightly‑coloured paper, so that his home looked like a miniature, multi‑coloured replica of the nearby Red Fort.