phantasma

NOUN
  1. a ghostly appearing figure
    we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
  2. something existing in perception only
    a ghostly apparition at midnight
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How To Use phantasma 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.
  • Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Brilliant flashes of color shot past the windows like phantasmal fire works.
  • Aristotle's Greek word, that is commonly and traditionally translated as "[mental] image" is “phantasmaHis Name Was Do Re Mi
  • This certain interval will give rise to the eerie phantasmatic ir-reality of the Sanatorium as a result of the contamination and rapid decomposition of time. Celebrated Animators The Quay Brothers Return with a New Feature | /Film
  • 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?
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