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phantasmagoric

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
    a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows
    the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature

How To Use phantasmagoric In A Sentence

  • Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
  • Fans proclaim it a visionary masterpiece, a mind-expanding, phantasmagorical inner-space odyssey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
  • These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
  • 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
  • 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
  • These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
  • Increasingly his memories collide with phantasmagorical Circles of Hell and apocalyptic visions.
  • Many of the short movements sound like the phantasmagorical release of long pent-up frustrations, regrets and even anger. Times, Sunday Times
  • This phantasmagorical gothic tale is designed to confuse at times. Times, Sunday Times
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