A great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Yet we discover later all kinds of reasons and motivations which, while presented in phantasmagoric contexts, are not without significance. From Wordnik.com. ['Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_] Reference
I know a great phantasmagoric concourse of memory. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Best Highway] Reference
Imagine a phantasmagoric voyage upstream for the baby shower. From Wordnik.com. [Mo Rocca: Where to for Next Brangelina Babe?] Reference
Plain everyday talk can suggest any number of phantasmagoric possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
Without authenticity, we are back in a world of phantasmagoric materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Has some phantasmagoric Mumbai street scene crashed a mainstream London museum?. From Wordnik.com. [The City Of Curiosities] Reference
It's phantasmagoric, where the characters are going on a search to slay a dragon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2009] Reference
It's a soundscape that makes the production all the more artfully phantasmagoric. From Wordnik.com. [Review: 'La Candida Erendira' at GALA Hispanic Theatre] Reference
It's phantasmagoric, where the characters are going on the search to slay a dragon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2009] Reference
Following his friend's lead, Simna strained to locate this phantasmagoric creature. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Gradually I became used to the phantasmagoric nature of the swiftly passing landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
As we see, there is more to Freud's critique than phantasmagoric fables about the primal horde. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Jesse Walker came across Telezonia 1974, a manic, deranged, phantasmagoric AT&T instructional film. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Telephonic psychedelia from Ma Bell] Reference
Every time I see that phantasmagoric Lunesta butterfly, I wonder why pharmaceutical ads are so hideous. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
I was like a man flying through the phantasmagoric happenings of a dream, knowing neither how nor whither. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The writing was highly original and varied in tone: humorous, terrifying, phantasmagoric, satiric, devout. From Wordnik.com. [Light from Above] Reference
I can't think of a more appropriate place for this phantasmagoric giant mantis than Franz Kafka's hometown. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
"The Commune" creators manage to create terror without having to resort to vampires or phantasmagoric figures. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Snortland: Herror Movies: Women and Film] Reference
Brontë structures the work so that we see the gradual phantasmagoric effect on the frozen psyche that is Lucy. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
However, his work has a phantasmagoric feel that works best as a counterpoint to more "traditional" illustrations. From Wordnik.com. [Best Cover Ever] Reference
James used ghosts and phantasmagoric trappings in order to add layers of meaning and effectiveness to their stories. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Carlos Ruiz Zafón about The Shadow of the Wind] Reference
These floating white beds exist only in Lucy's mind as manifestations of a gothic phantasmagoric machinery, and surely. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
Still, theygive glimpses of the phantasmagoric secret world these mystical women have inhabited for more than 800 years. From Wordnik.com. [Preah Khan Khmer Temple - Devata of Darkness | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context] Reference
Anthony Pontius is showing a new collection of his lovely, dark, phantasmagoric paintings at Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Angela Davies's design, Neil Austin's lighting and Dominic Haslam's music lend the opening sequence a phantasmagoric quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Homburg] Reference
The Prelude, the eye of visual perception has been rendered "weary" by the phantasmagoric flow of life in the city of London. From Wordnik.com. [Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics] Reference
Kodak introduced these phantasmagoric ads in the 1950s, and over the course of 40 years displayed 565 of them at Grand Central. From Wordnik.com. [Colorama! 'The World's Largest Photographs' Are Back] Reference
Coraline's Other Father takes her for rides on a wild contraption through a phantasmagoric garden that he planted just for her. From Wordnik.com. ['Coraline' looks great, but the story lacks focus] Reference
All is gray shadow -- a weak and irregular remembrance -- an indistinct regathering of feeble pleasures and phantasmagoric pains. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
Shorn of their many-armed source of wonder and entertainment, sailors snapped out of their phantasmagoric reverie and back to work. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Brontë's works is, I would claim, built on her knowledge of gothic stage technology, dramatic conventions, and phantasmagoric effects. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
Lowdown: Miéville's phantasmagoric story is eclipsed by a glut of flawed heroes and an invented vernacular that impedes its own progress. From Wordnik.com. [July 2004] Reference
And the whole time there were comings and goings, a phantasmagoric array of eerie figures continually passed to and fro before my hazy eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
This must not be confounded with an involuntary perturbation, a mere instinctive dread, a phantasmagoric illusion that involves no part of the will. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction, may be shadowed forth, although feebly, in words. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
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