phantasmagoric

How To Use phantasmagoric In A Sentence

• Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
• You can see why audiences lap up the comedy, the colour and the phantasmagorical love story at its heart. Times, Sunday Times
• It's a tremendous challenge to the realist novel, and at the same time, one of its greatest opportunities ever -- this dislocation into simulacra and statistics, a phantasmagoric world of global warming PowerPoints and Big Brother reality shows. Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
• Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
• Floop's island castle is a phantasmagoric fantasyland where anything can happen, and does.
• It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos.
• His twitterview today with Jake Tapper is full of examples as he talks about Iran not so much as an actual country full of actual people doing actual things in a difficult situation, but instead as a kind of phantasmagoric canvass onto which we should paint a tableau of American hubris and militarism. this Tweet: Center for American Progress Action Fund
• The company is the dance equivalent of Salvador Dali, creating weird phantasmagorical worlds.
• The long shadows cast by rows of the sculptor's phantasmagorical figures take on a haunting significance. Times, Sunday Times
• Yet we discover later all kinds of reasons and motivations which, while presented in phantasmagoric contexts, are not without significance. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_