How To Use Phantasmagoric In A Sentence
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Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
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You can see why audiences lap up the comedy, the colour and the phantasmagorical love story at its heart.
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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.
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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Floop's island castle is a phantasmagoric fantasyland where anything can happen, and does.
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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.
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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:
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The company is the dance equivalent of Salvador Dali, creating weird phantasmagorical worlds.
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The long shadows cast by rows of the sculptor's phantasmagorical figures take on a haunting significance.
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Yet we discover later all kinds of reasons and motivations which, while presented in phantasmagoric contexts, are not without significance.
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a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows
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Drawing on archival materials, they bring together image, text and music into a series of haunting, phantasmagorical narratives.
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Called Arnolfini, in honor of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, the bejeweled chandelier, rendered out of glass containers, including egg cups and poison bottles, suggests a phantasmagoric Still Life painting.
Out of the Gallery and Into the Home
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They released a string of brilliantly weird hits with phantasmagorical Tim Pope videos and amassed huge success in America.
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It is also populated by visitors from dreamland, including a phantasmagorical travel agent (yes, really).
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Molly was looking out of her window, as it went past her with the slow beginnings of speed, watching the faces that drifted by, in a kind of phantasmagoric show, never more to be repeated, when, in the further corner of a third-class carriage near the end of the train, she caught sight of a huddled figure that reminded her of Walter; a pale face was staring as if it saw nothing, but dreamed of something it could not see.
Home Again
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The works are beguilingly small, and in clean acrylic colours on canvas, have a phantasmagorical kaleidoscopic effect, which is dizzying in its intensity.
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Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur.
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This phantasmagorical gothic tale is designed to confuse at times.
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Fans proclaim it a visionary masterpiece, a mind-expanding, phantasmagorical inner-space odyssey.
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
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Called Arnolfini, in honor of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, the bejeweled chandelier, rendered out of glass containers, including egg cups and poison bottles, suggests a phantasmagoric Still Life painting.
Out of the Gallery and Into the Home
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But that's mere prelude to the film's raison d 'ê tre: a phantasmagoric journey through the Buddhist equivalent of hell in which the entire cast is treated to all imaginable — and some hitherto unimaginable — tortures.
Haunting Films From Japan
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These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
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Increasingly his memories collide with phantasmagorical Circles of Hell and apocalyptic visions.
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Many of the short movements sound like the phantasmagorical release of long pent-up frustrations, regrets and even anger.
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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Chiara and Fabio are part of the same movement or fashion or compulsion: they have come from Italy especially for the convention, parading faces completely covered in phantasmagoric designs finished off with piercings.
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The neighboring paintings, by contrast, were phantasmagorically alive, their fine ribbons of line vacillating between chance and intention.
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They wanted to talk to the creator of the phantasmagorical striding figures that have subsequently become so very famous.
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They look not only fantastic but satisfyingly phantasmagorical.
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Bollywoods Most Wanted barefeet blogger in the soul of a sculpted rock indigenous like entombed neither this nor that a pedestrian poet he bloomed tryst with destiny capsized and doomed bejeweled moments sartorial spirituality packaged costumed link after link on a facebook mushroomed a twittering tragedy a madman of mumbai assumed words words more words enwombed from his deadwood body after his death as poetic testimony of ill fate exhumed posthumously phantasmagorically perfumed
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Sometimes, though, ghosts can be all the scarier when they are less phantasmagorical.
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He has lifted figures directly from Masaccio, and his works suggest Arcimboldo 's phantasmagorical heads and the flayed bodies of Andreas Vesalius' s 16th-century tome on human anatomy.
Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
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It's an unreal, phantasmagoric place, Ford's America: an unashamedly sublime, romantic, sinister spectacle.
