phantasmagoria

How To Use phantasmagoria In A Sentence

• That ignorance was on prominent display after New Hampshire, as analysts groped to explain the primary results and came up with explanations that were as offensive as they were phantasmagorial. Susan Faludi: The Correct Hillary Stereotype: Competence
• Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
• The nomad and romantic in him, troubled and restless with Ukrainian myth, legend, and song, impressed upon Russian literature, faced with the realities of modern life, a spirit titanic and in clash with its material, and produced in the mastery of this every-day material, commonly called sordid, a phantasmagoria intense with beauty. Taras Bulba and Other Tales
• collection of perceptions" which makes up our consciousness may be an orderly phantasmagoria generated by the Ego, unfolding its successive scenes on the background of the abyss of nothingness; as a firework, which is but cunningly arranged combustibles, grows from a spark into a coruscation, and from a coruscation into figures, and words, and cascades of devouring fire, and then vanishes into the darkness of the night. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
• The full text is divided into three parts:Then phantasmagoria dragon, the lion image, and the dragon, lion is in construct decorate of function.
• Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song. Star-Dust
• We therefore see that some find in Ignatius's method illuminism, hallucination, and phantasmagoria; others see in it nothing dazzling, but rather dulness and insipidity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• Jim's first impression of London was an ocean of flying mud, through which myriads of phantasmagorial creatures and things moved in sullen, unceasing procession; an all-enveloping wall of brown fog; and a roar like unto some monster in pain. Colorado Jim
• Someone had set up a strobe light in the back, so the dancing figures were in silhouette, and their movements appeared to consist of a series of slides; like the images from a phantasmagoria.
• The world-sickness of the White Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living. Chapter XXXVI