1) Their quiet neighbour turned out to be a Walter Mitty character, running a huge drug-smuggling business from his garage.

2) He says he lived a Walter Mitty lifestyle, lot's of travel, lots of high living.

3) He is a Walter Mitty in reverse: He is a famous man who has fantasies of being ordinary.

4) At school she lived in a Walter Mitty world of adventure.

5) Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly and the bickering attorneys were stilled.

6) Professor Chang is a Walter Mitty about becoming the president of China.

7) His Walter Mitty dream, as he said once,(http:///walter mitty.html) was to take his boat and leave "the daily flow of this miserable world".

8) But the project was all massively exaggerated by O'Rourke, a Walter Mitty conman just declared bankrupt.

9) He will also star in a Steven Spielberg remake of the 1947 comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty .

10) To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.