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dream merchant
noun
- a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
Example Sentences
“Carson the Magnificent” is the offering of an acolyte who saw in Carson, as many did, a man who “launched the dreams of generations, as no golden Hollywood dream merchant might have fathomed, even in metaphor. Never a movie star, he shone maybe bigger anyhow.”
Staley refers to herself as a “dream merchant” who is able to give opportunities to minority players similar to the ones given her.
"It borders on child exploitation when you're a dream merchant," says Charles Farrell, an American based in the D.R. who is trying to start a baseball-centric high school there, "and not delivering the dream."
Seventeen of Shakespeare's best known plays; Tempest, Two gentlemen of Verona, Much ado about nothing, Midsummer night's dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, Taming of the shrew, Twelfth night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Cymbeline, Winter's tale and Comedy of errors.
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