Word: fancifulism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blinded by our fanciful concern for intangibles like maimed Iraqi children and our uninsured, unemployed neighbors, we in the anti-war movement seem to have neglected to speak up for “actual people” like the U.S. troops in Iraq. Outrage at the steadily mounting U.S. casualties...
The fact that this line of opposition to the war is so rarely cited bothers me, because it shows a lack of concern for our brave men and women in the armed forces. It suggests that the antiwar movement is motivated more by intangibles, such as fanciful-sounding ?...
Because 345 soldiers have been killed, and the death toll is mounting. Because hundreds more have sustained serious injuries. Because our troops are so stressed that there have been abnormally high rates of suicide in the army. Because men and women in uniform have been kept away from their friends...
In some forms of ancient Japanese theater, a skinny red stripe on the stage is all that separates heaven from hell. For decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from...
The popularity of Six Feet Under, the HBO series about a family of undertakers, and the success of novels like The Lovely Bones, about a dead girl who watches her family from heaven, and this summer's The Dogs of Babel, in which an artist makes fanciful death masks, have...