phantasmal

How To Use phantasmal In A Sentence

• Brilliant flashes of color shot past the windows like phantasmal fire works.
• Consider Ecuador's endangered phantasmal poison frog -- smaller than a dime, but an extract from its skin blocks pain 200 times more effectively than morphine, seemingly without addiction and other serious side effects. Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species?
• But, beyond what we will never know or understand about this often deliberately cryptic film, can we intuit a core logic, a phantasmal logic, which holds it together?
• a phantasmal presence in the room
• She can make no sense of how her phantasmal projection can surface into reality.
• The lake was phantasmal by night and, moreover, relatively smoke-free. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• The phantasmal poison frog from Ecuador and Peru, for example, secretes a painkiller called epibatidine that is 200 times more powerful than morphine - and non-addictive.
• The way the moonbeams hit his face made him look pale and phantasmal, like he was a just an illusion sitting there against that dripping tree.
• The flicker of candlelight illuminated the darkened dining room, creating phantasmal shadows dancing upon the walls.
• Some images of the film seem heightened, romantic, expressionist, oneiric (like the phantasmal image of Raynal struggling against the wind).