phantasmal

ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
    spiritual tappings at a seance
    a ghostly face at the window
    spectral emanations
    a phantasmal presence in the room
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How To Use phantasmal In A Sentence

  • Some images of the film seem heightened, romantic, expressionist, oneiric (like the phantasmal image of Raynal struggling against the wind).
  • And out of the phantasmalian group of objects there grew a single slim, well-remembered figure in red, to dazzle him with her strange, unexpected beauty, and to soothe him with an unspoken faith that began then and had not yet faltered in her lovely eyes. The Rose in the Ring
  • He could often be found sitting cross-legged onstage, using just his guitar, his beat-boxing skills and a battery of effects pedals to concoct phantasmal full bands. Rocking the Mic
  • The ancient killing spirit unleashed on Fairgeth became a large man in a white ape suit—formidable, easier to create, but hardly phantasmal and not as menacing. The Codex Continual » Bulwark Media: Max Dawes
  • Meanwhile the Usual Suspects ™ witter on about that phantasmal, oxymoronic contruction, "liberal fascism. Archive 2009-02-01
  • I'm using my eternal rest to the full, though - my spectral pottery skills are coming along nicely, and I'm pretty hopeful that I'll get to cop another phantasmal feel of Demi Moore's norks. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Some of them begin with the appearances of ghostly wrongdoers and phantasmal murders, but in the end they are revealed to be hoaxes or misapprehensions of the Scooby Doo ilk. Book Review: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Fandomania
  • They brood over and revolve it -- the idea grows up, a horrid phantasmalian monomania; and all of a sudden, in a hundred different places, the one seed sown by the leaden types springs up into foul flowering. Night and Morning, Volume 3
  • Herbert even went so far as to plead guilty, when Grisel gave him the cue, of having a little heightened and overcoloured his story of the restless phantasmal old creature that haunted their queer wooden hauntable old house. The Return
  • The Wordless Music Orchestra, clad in phantasmal white, performed Gavin Bryars ' 1969 piece "The Sinking of the Titanic. All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim
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