A subplot weaves in phantasmagorical elements such as a giant escaped tiger that is ravaging the Upper East Side, that bastion of old money and property.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 November 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

The novel is a gut-wrenching, soul-churning, emotional wreck, bringing to mind some Harlan Ellison's "phantasmagorical" hara-kiris - combined with Raymond Chandler, no less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe at Play: Two Must-Read Novels of the Fantastic] Reference

Slightly phantasmagorical, or something like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce] Reference

Benjamin modernity itself becomes phantasmagorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Abstracts] Reference

Then there's hospital time, which is famously phantasmagorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Abeel: Labor Day in the City] Reference

When lightning struck, phantasmagorical rock silhouettes leapt to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert] Reference

I think this one is going to be utterly phantasmagorical and not to be missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [labor day epidural] Reference

Hidden in the woods the fairy tale park is a truly phantasmagorical experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Candy store genius of phantasmagorical stories of robots, he made three laws do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

It's a phantasmagorical kaleidoscope that grows hypnotic with its minute detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Walking Ghost of Old America] Reference

All around him the extraordinary, phantasmagorical world called Prism teemed with life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentenced To Prism]

"It never had a couture collection of phantasmagorical clothes that no one wore," says Kors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arnault's Celine Solution] Reference

It's a phantasmagorical way of dis-engaging Western history from the literal rubble of Haiti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farai Chideya: Haiti Is Cursed -- By Our Ignorance] Reference

It is not the lack of new, improved, ever more phantasmagorical high-tech toys and techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: It's Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights] Reference

Are some of his phantasmagorical promises also the delusions of the Norwegian Nobel Committee?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Nobel Is Not About Peace] Reference

On the other hand, these stellar analogs can produce incredible, sometimes phantasmagorical effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prunings XVII] Reference

It punishes him for his perjury, but not for the phantasmagorical political farce that grew to surround him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

During this event, I will formally renounce squid for all time, and embrace visionary, phantasmagorical noir.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Fantasy Convention 2009: Renouncing Squid, Celebrating Last Drink, Gator Heads, and Embracing Phantasmagorical Noir] Reference

May 31st, 2006 at 6:15 am introduce the notion that this whole phantasmagorical “war” is largely a crock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Unleash the Wingnuts] Reference

Modern life had become phantasmagorical, or, as Castle was later to put it in her collected essays, "uncanny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference

Couldn't Tyler Hamilton's dog's doping phantasmagorical fetus-in-fetu twin be located in time for a couple soundbites?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Bike Month Round-Up] Reference

In a word, this book is for the few to whom fantasy means phantasmagorical, noble, ornamental, awe-striking, wondrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: John C. Wright] Reference

"I don't think 'Boris Godunov' necessarily lends itself to a giant, phantasmagorical reinterpretation," Mr. Gordon said.    From Wordnik.com.  [After an Abrupt Exit, Opera Changes Key] Reference

Jelinek has castigated Austria, depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, Die Kinder der Toten (1995).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 - Bio-bibliography] Reference

May 30th, 2006 at 10:46 pm brave enough to introduce the notion that this whole phantasmagorical “war” is largely a crock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Unleash the Wingnuts] Reference

The phantasmagorical, science-fiction element that has crept into Doris Lessing's recent work is therefore, I think, a gain for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Disintegrating City] Reference

As modernity finds itself increasingly dominated by various media, it, too, becomes suffused with an uncanny and phantasmagorical aura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Machines] Reference

Printing presses create a monstrous reading public; ghosts attach themselves to phantasmagorical, photographic or cinematic projections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Machines] Reference

I'm intrigued by mind bending speculative aspects or phantasmagorical realms, but I enjoy the ride more if it involves engaging characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?] Reference

Ailes was speaking to Esquire's Tom Junod for what turned out to be a scathing, phantasmagorical 8,000-word profile of the head of Fox News.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox News Chief: I Met With Bill Clinton About Doing A Show] Reference

For a moment or two I thought my brain was playing games with me – that this was some phantasmagorical extension to the ongoing nightmare.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union] Reference

We're creating an entire world, a complete ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and a native people with a rich culture and language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Speaking of John Wieners and then dressing rooms — there is a nine-page interlude in A Book of Prophecies inventorying a phantasmagorical fashion catalog.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wonder Closet : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

After the phantasmagorical loopiness of The Fountain, Aronofsky has now gone in the opposite direction, stripping his filmmaking down to a kind of core humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toronto Film Festival: Less Oscar mania, and Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler' | EW.com] Reference

As a result, the Romance found it easier to press ahead as the probable novel, which promised to discipline, and regulate, fantasy (and thus the phantasmagorical).    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference

I really have nothing to add to this excellent Jason Sigger post about the end of the phantasmagorical two-major-theater-wars strategy except a classic Misfits jam.    From Wordnik.com.  [2MTW: Die, Die, Die My Darling | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

"Production Designer Robert Stromberg created a hallmark environment in this design that served as a backdrop to Jake's journey through the phantasmagorical depths of Pandora.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Acme Archives Selling Limited Edition Avatar Concept Art! « FirstShowing.net] Reference