So when Black Heels crossed my desk, I tucked it in my bag on a Friday afternoon, and looked forward to a weekend on my couch (I was also stricken with my 287th cold of the season) lost in a fantasy world of love, and good cooking and strapping cowboys wrangling cattle.
The central idea here is that Colleen is lost in a fantasy world of violence, which in effect, can be claimed about anyone who has ever played an M-rated video game.
There's a whole world of sort of fantasy and illusion out there that makes dating full of lies to begin with and probably even more so when you're online, and I think people kind of like it that way.
The world is a unique world, not just a hodge-podge of things from popular fantasy.
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Mosley described being secretly photographed with five women in a scenario that the News of the World described, falsely, as an enactment of a Nazi-related sexual fantasy with prostitutes.
Today thousands of programmers around the world have given Facebook a broad menu of applications featuring everything from fantasy sports to photo sharing.
Not only was Mosley miffed to be part of a sex sting story, he said News of the World mischaracterized his sex fantasy.
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Down the other, slightly less-morbid, path: a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy world with monsters and hobbits.
The company inked a deal to bring its "World of Warcraft" online fantasy game to China seven years ago.
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Humans may never have the ability to change into the Incredible Hulk when angry, but donning one of these may soon make the robotic gear in scenes from Alien and Iron Man seem less like science fiction fantasy and more like a new world of enhanced abilities for everyone.
"In a fantasy world with no encumbrances, 20% of our production would go directly to consumers, " trade executive Ingo Grady estimates.
Simultaneously, Annie gets close to Isabelle's husband, Eldon, a frustrated armchair cartographer who lets her into his fantasy world of polar exploration.
So could seeing violence in a video game be a positive developmental opportunity for children, in that they are free to play out any aggression, taking part of something that they realize is a fantasy world and not reality?
The trailer starts off showing a small party of adventurers running around in an isometric fantasy world.
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Out of plasticine and medieval fable, they mold a fantasy world filled with romance, poetry and executions.
Early in the program, Miyamoto appeared on a giant video screen to demonstrate Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the fourteenth installment in the Zelda series, which he created in 1986, and which involves the adventures of an avatar named Link, who roams a fantasy world in an attempt to rescue a princess, Zelda.
Players will once again take on the role of Garrett, a master thief, and explore a fantasy steampunk world brought to life for next-generation consoles.
Set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, the developers say they will avoid the gray wastelands of similar titles, opting instead for varied environments ranging from typically gritty graveyards to lovely wheatfields and more.
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Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birtwhistle said Labour's plan to axe the planned cut in corporate tax showed they were "living in a complete economic fantasy world", as the companies that would be affected were potential employers of students.
"To get the movement you have to be true to the original form, or audiences will see something is off and pop out of the fantasy world we've created, " says Claudia Chung, a simulation supervisor who oversaw the technology for all the film's clothing and hair.
"If you had told me as a young boy I would have played for and won trophies with my boyhood club Manchester United, proudly captained and played for my country over one hundred times and lined up for some of the biggest clubs in the world, I would have told you it was a fantasy, " said Beckham.
When they meet in this space it becomes a sort of artificial fantasy space and some gamers are very resistant to any attempts to introduce the real world.
The economic fantasy world that pro sports has had the benefit of living in could be in for a bit of a jolt.
Believe it or not, fantasy novels (with magic and zombies) can also display a highly sophisticated understanding of real-world politics.
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