Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.

They could be Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life , or politicians preparing to run for president, or even, perhaps, the fantasy projections of self-pitying network executives who wish they could chuck the lunches at the Dome and the whole rat race and just go home again.

The "explicitly socialist" economy of Oz has been contrasted to other "fantasy" projections of socialist societies, like Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) and William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890).

She utilized techniques such as "buglisting" in her teaching, a way of making lists about annoying aspects of environments, conceptual blockbusting, and fantasy projection.

Or rather, they are cherished fantasy projections of ourselves in a shadow version of a society obsessed with family values and corporate upward mobility.

In fairy tale moments, characters miraculously inherit large sums of money or have some other bizarre stroke of good fortune, a fantasy projection, perhaps, of the director's own struggles in the city.

A fantasy projection of Yaritomo's need for power and control in a stressful situation.

You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Or might Diane be real and Betty be a fantasy projection of what she might have been?