How To Use Phantasmagoria In A Sentence
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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
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Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
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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
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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)
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The full text is divided into three parts:Then phantasmagoria dragon, the lion image, and the dragon, lion is in construct decorate of function.
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Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song.
Star-Dust
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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The rest of the ride was an enfevered phantasmagoria.
Your United States Impressions of a first visit
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Wordsworth's poetics, where such despotism was closely linked, in Wordsworth's mind, to the mad assortment of visual technologies thronging the London market, such as panoramas, dioramas, raree shows and phantasmagorias.
Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
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Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living.
Chapter 36
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The phantasmagoria includes a scene depicting the French emperor reviewing an army of hideous demons.
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But his pictures of nature are fine only as imaging the dreaminess, and obscurity, and confusion of distempered sleep; while all his agents pass before our eyes like shadows, and only impress and affect us with a phantasmagorial splendour.
Famous Reviews
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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
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He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings.
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Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.
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What Ms. Surno describes as an "ornate, lush, gorgeous orgy" is a 29-minute phantasmagoria.
Making Beautiful Music With Film
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They alone preserve the phantasmagoria of bookland and dreamland.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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The change was almost phantasmagorial, as if the sun had burst through the fog upon that face: it became clear, bright, almost radiant.
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
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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.
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As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
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As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless.
CHAPTER I
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The piece begins with an unusual take on what H.W. Fowler called polysyllabic humour, ‘electrocardiogram’ and ‘phantasmagoria’ appearing in lieu of swear words.
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Phantasmagoria portray the unspeakable, they rise above the written language.
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Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.
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With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
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The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality — a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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NBC producer David Michaels and director John Gonzalez put a phantasmagoria of images up on screen in the more than an hour-and-a-half of the telecast.
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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.
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It is highly probable, that a singular piece of phantasmagoria, which was certainly played off upon the Commissioners of the Long Parliament, who were sent down to dispark and destroy Woodstock, after the death of
Woodstock
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He knew that he must seek them in their own social world, and to this he would surely be raised by his phantasmagorial income of thirty shillings a week.
The Fortunate Youth
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Is the phantasmagoria of sound and noise and color really passing or is it all an illusion here in my brain?
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The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality -- a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
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A dream world was born: phantasmagoria, hallucinations, angels in paradise, the sun, moon and stars personified, vividly imagined.
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You go further and would touch the phantasmagorial veil.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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In capitalist societies it is only the definite social relationships of men themselves, which in their eyes takes on the phantasmagorial form of a relation between things.
Commodity fetishism, Sign-value, and Seduction
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
