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/fˌɑːntɐzmɐɡˈɒɹɪkəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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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 phantasmagorical In A Sentence
- Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
- He has lifted figures directly from Masaccio, and his works suggest Arcimboldo 's phantasmagorical heads and the flayed bodies of Andreas Vesalius' s 16th-century tome on human anatomy. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
- Sometimes, though, ghosts can be all the scarier when they are less phantasmagorical. Times, Sunday Times
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- They look not only fantastic but satisfyingly phantasmagorical. Times, Sunday Times
- They wanted to talk to the creator of the phantasmagorical striding figures that have subsequently become so very famous. Times, Sunday Times
- The neighboring paintings, by contrast, were phantasmagorically alive, their fine ribbons of line vacillating between chance and intention.
- Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
- Many of the short movements sound like the phantasmagorical release of long pent-up frustrations, regrets and even anger. Times, Sunday Times
- Increasingly his memories collide with phantasmagorical Circles of Hell and apocalyptic visions.