As I earlier explain, "phantasmagoria" has come to take on a specialised meaning, post Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
Shows using ghostly special effects were, in 1787, to be given the name of "phantasmagoria," but de. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
He had so withdrawn himself of late to the inner creative life that he moved in a kind of phantasmagoria of outer unrealities. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Philipstal, staged his "phantasmagoria" in London at the Lyceum, and William Nicholson was in the audience to provide this eyewitness account. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
Consumed by "phantasmagoria," distracted, entertained, spectators enjoy their alienation from others and themselves and sink into the mass "in an attitude that is pure reaction.". From Wordnik.com. [Reading Machines] Reference
The phantasmagoria is a product of human dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Unity of Good] Reference
They were a phantasmagoria in a sleep deprived mind. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Or maybe it\'s reality and this is a consensus phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [the caR] Reference
In this radiant phantasmagoria messages in turn came to Ootah. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Care to describe this phantasmagoria you call "The Democrats?". From Wordnik.com. [Quote Of The Day] Reference
I was beginning to be familiar with this strange phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
What a phantasmagoria of splendor, "the magic-lantern of Nature"!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
Presently appeared upon it figures like shadows on a phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
It did not seem to have an actual place among these frail phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
The books have no shortage of adventure story phantasmagoria (and neither does the movie). From Wordnik.com. [A question, lightly held] Reference
But, "continued he," as the sun rises higher, all this phantasmagoria will melt and vanish. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
According to the letter, a phantasmagoria of horror begins shortly after Obama takes office. From Wordnik.com. [Focus on the Family's Toxic Corn Pone Letter From 2012] Reference
There were none of these; but holly, mistletoe, and Chinese lanterns made a fine phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
As I look back upon them, the next few years seem to have been a series of amazing phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
They are the substance compared with which all the lower and lesser experiences are mere phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It was the same brawny body that had amorously begotten another male in the phantasmagoria of this world. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
I was and am, like you, a commodity magician, immersed within this phantasmagoria of civilization and its goods. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Left Brain, Lame Brain] Reference
Smith weirds out popular cultural codes and tropes, arranging scriptible counter-hexes and critical phantasmagoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Molcho was the victim of a phantasmagoria, a delusion, into which, at feud with reality, he allowed himself to fall. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist] Reference
One of classical music's great existential statements, The Makropulos Case is phantasmagoria as well as psychodrama. From Wordnik.com. [The Makropulos Case] Reference
December found Joan with dark, happy eyes intent upon the rose-colored phantasmagoria of existence, her worriment past. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
A Neptune-esque red velvet upholstered mountain with griffins and other phantasmagoria carved into its gold arms and back. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Velvet Curtain With a Retail Santa] Reference
A dream of passionate excitement, a phantasmagoria of old wishes, old hopes, of the life I might have led, flew before me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
From the Absolute viewpoint, of course, the Universe is in the nature of an illusion, a dream, a phantasmagoria, as compared to. From Wordnik.com. [The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece] Reference
Finally, one day, in the cloud phantasmagoria, Ootah saw Olafaksoah reeling from the strange red-gold water the white men drank. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
A bewildering phantasmagoria, with all the inconsistency of a dream, and all the pain and all the pleasure of an extravagant reality!. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures from Italy] Reference
The film offers an insightful and, in spite of its gory phantasmagoria, convincing proposal, evident in contrast to "Thelma & Louise.". From Wordnik.com. [It's 'Thelma And Louise' For Guys] Reference
There's never been anything like this densely detailed phantasmagoria -- groundbreaking in substance, damned near earth-shaking in style. From Wordnik.com. [At Rockies Fest,] Reference
He only knew later that he had been in the woods and now was in his room at the hotel; all the rest was phantasmagoria, agony and defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Initials Only] Reference
Thoughts crowded upon her in a series of flashing pictures; a bewildering phantasmagoria, coming out of the shadows, and beckoning to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
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