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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 'ĂȘ tre: a phantasmagoric journey through the Buddhist equivalent of hell in which the entire cast is treated to all imaginable â and some hitherto unimaginable â 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