dream merchant

noun

1. 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.”

From Los Angeles Times

Staley refers to herself as a “dream merchant” who is able to give opportunities to minority players similar to the ones given her.

From New York Times

"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."

From Time

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.

From Project Gutenberg