escapist

Example Sentences

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Granit and Maymon allow the characters, and the audience, to escape the clinic through the women’s shared guided visualizations, which they call holidays, escapist fantasies to an island rainforest, Burning Man or just back home.

From Los Angeles Times

Somewhere between Jacob Riis and Charlie Chaplin, Murillo offers a knowing but escapist prance through need.

From New York Times

But the box office was dominated by big-budget, escapist entertainment based on established film franchises.

From Los Angeles Times

But this does not mean, as shortsighted critics insist, that striving to send humans to live and work in space must be an escapist techno- fantasy abdicating our stewardship over Earth.

From Scientific American

“As a kid, I was totally hooked by Snoopy and the escapist fun and humor of that character,” he says.

From Washington Post