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escapist

[ UK /ɛskˈe‍ɪpɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who escapes into a world of fantasy

How To Use escapist In A Sentence

  • The film is basically escapist comedy, which we watch just to find out how they'll tell the same story over again and to see the bad guys get what they deserve.
  • To be honest, my original idea embodied the somewhat escapist idea that we could go back to the time before the attacks, that we could undo what had happened.
  • In the world of the Depression of the 1920s, and into the years of World War 2, Hollywood churned out an endless succession of highly stylised, escapist fantasies.
  • Romantics is by now "hopelessly naive, escapist, and self-deluding," distinguishing between romantic lyric and conventional neoromanticism; while Altieri examines in detail how Arnold’s Wordsworth constructed Introduction
  • Since escapist fantasy isn't always congruent with second-home-owner reality, we checked in with the experts for tips on buying smart.
  • This is for the escapist: a place to stroll through coconut groves, lie on beaches, or admire a perfect sunset without seeing another soul.
  • I'm glad to hear that about O'Brien; as both a Catholic and a long-time fan of fantasy/horror/SF, I get twitchy when I hear objections along the lines of "escapist twaddle" or "it's not like reading the KJV!!!" to the genre. You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
  • She was gradually becoming more assertive and less escapist with friends and in her overall attitude toward daily events.
  • Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives.
  • Many have seen the work as escapist or cloyingly sentimental - ‘novelettish and pretty-pretty, ‘as one eminent Straussian described it.
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