phantasmagoria

How To Use phantasmagoria In A Sentence

• It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
• The phantasmagoria or magic lantern show is one of the ‘figures not yet at her command’ in which her preverbal consciousness is assimilated to a spectacular model.
• As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
• As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless. CHAPTER I
• The piece begins with an unusual take on what H.W. Fowler called polysyllabic humour, ‘electrocardiogram’ and ‘phantasmagoria’ appearing in lieu of swear words.
• Phantasmagoria portray the unspeakable, they rise above the written language.
• Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.
• With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
• The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality — a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare. Love and Mr Lewisham
• He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes