On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Escapist. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dreamer or daydreamer and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Escapist meaning
Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
Synonyms of Escapist
Using Escapist
- The main meaning on this page is: Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
- Useful related words include: dreamer, wishful thinker, daydreamer, woolgatherer.
- In the example corpus, escapist often appears in combinations such as: escapist entertainment, the escapist, escapist nature.
Context around Escapist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Escapist
- In this selection, "escapist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, margaritaville, total, grandiose, entertainment, tribute and things stand out and add context to how "escapist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a grandiose escapist vibe like and a pleasant escapist parade of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "escapist" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with escapist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Read some escapist books featuring zero contagions or stressful crowd scenes. (11 words)
It’s the ultimate escapist entertainment because it has, incomparably, everything: thrills, spills, romance, wit. (15 words)
Rabbi Conyer replied, “I like a lot of spy novels and total escapist things … nearly always fiction. (17 words)
Finding that wonderfully escapist balance between realistic and dreamlike that builds on what Gladiator executed so masterfully, sitting through this movie on as big a screen as you can is the definition of a cinematic experience. (36 words)
Tang stresses the “escapist” nature of the show several times and says the trend has continued well beyond the pandemic, when viewers demanded this manner of blue-sky fare to forgot about their everyday woes. (35 words)
Alexander rejects the idea that medievalism, a pervasive cultural movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was confined to the Victorian period and argues against the suspicion that it was by its nature escapist. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his Margaritaville escapist tribute to the tropical life, has died at the age of 76.
Rabbi Conyer replied, “I like a lot of spy novels and total escapist things … nearly always fiction.
Tang stresses the “escapist” nature of the show several times and says the trend has continued well beyond the pandemic, when viewers demanded this manner of blue-sky fare to forgot about their everyday woes.
Tony is badass, but Jaime feels like a cyberpunk comic book superhero the way he cuts loose, crafting a grandiose, escapist vibe like no other.
Zero Punctuation, launched in 2007, is The Escapist's most popular feature, with videos from the series comfortably outranking others on its YouTube channel.
Finding that wonderfully escapist balance between realistic and dreamlike that builds on what Gladiator executed so masterfully, sitting through this movie on as big a screen as you can is the definition of a cinematic experience.
It’s the ultimate escapist entertainment because it has, incomparably, everything: thrills, spills, romance, wit.
Read some escapist books featuring zero contagions or stressful crowd scenes.
But the best parts of the visually dazzling show are escapist, which the rotating cube provides in spades.
Deitch’s style seethes with detail; his fact-flipping meditations on cycles of life are both an escapist pleasure and an optimistic note for this mind-bending moment.
Don’t let the awards fool you, it’s not as cute or funny or progressive or feel-good or clever or smart or escapist as it thinks it is.
In fact as a piece of harmless escapist entertainment, it made Doctor Who look like the local GP.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel continues to be a pleasant escapist parade of sartorial and financial fantasy, even if the individual stories may not be as interesting or as emotionally involving as in the past.
But the one-man show also works with a more sedate crowd of troubled types looking for a commiserative soundtrack to their own escapist drinking.
I get Thurber and Johnson’s push for wanting to recognize the family dynamic when it comes to escapist fare.
After the rigours of war, this escapist entertainment had strong box-office appeal, and ran for 841 performances.
Alexander rejects the idea that medievalism, a pervasive cultural movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was confined to the Victorian period and argues against the suspicion that it was by its nature escapist.
His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "as breezily escapist as a film this facile can be" and added, "Ms.
Lubbock (2002) Rodgers and Hart As the Great Depression set in during the post-Broadway national tour of Show Boat, the public turned back to mostly light, escapist song-and-dance entertainment.
Common combinations with escapist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: