walter mitty
沃尔特·米蒂
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plural Walter Mittys.
- : an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
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Ben Stiller is Walter Mitty, a man about to lose his job but ready to go on an adventure that reignites a sense of purpose.
For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
He then added, unhelpfully, “All English writers are the same; Walter Scott excepted, all lack a plot.”
Earlier this year, 78-year-old Walter Williams found himself in a similar predicament.
Rep. Walter Jones, an antiwar Republican, was one of the few to give voice to the problem.
Walter Bellamy, Esquire, sitting in state, received his friend and partner with many smiles and much urbanity.
The plans and objects of Mr Walter Bellamy were best known to himself.
Sir Walter Scott smoked in his carriage, and regularly after dinner, loving both pipes and cigars.
Walter Mildmay, an English statesman, died; founder of Emanuel college.
Walter Fetherston was a writer of breathless mystery—but he was the essence of mystery himself.