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fantasia

[fan-tey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh-zee-uh] / fænˈteɪ ʒə, -ʒi ə, ˌfæn təˈzi ə /


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In 2019, then-Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said City were in "fantasia land", where they could buy whoever they wanted.

From BBC May 19, 2026

It has gone through many incarnations, including a mid-1990s renovation that led to its current, even more over-the-top state as a Czarist fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

One chapter looks at a literary example, William Wells Brown’s novel "Clotel," which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story.

From Salon Nov. 10, 2024

Beyoncé, “II Hands II Heaven” Months after “Cowboy Carter’s” release, this sprawling yet intricate electro-country fantasia still feels like it’s revealing itself.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2024

Mr. Knoblauch's The Faun is a romantic fantasia, but is not without its keen social satire.

From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton

In Krúdy’s fantasias, the yearning for the past is really a yearning for one’s lost youth.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Its music videos, which had heretofore been so art-school obscure that MTV barely played them, were now high-budget fantasias with Stipe front and center, undulating like a Robert Longo painting come to life.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2024

Fusing the bare-bones folk of his beloved 2015 album Carrie & Lowell to the grand, orchestral fantasias of his earlier work, Javelin saw Sufjan Stevens reach new heights.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2023

That said, it’s no less “authentic” than the vast majority of cowboy fantasias, even when it stages the climactic shootout to the Afrobeat tune of Fela Kuti’ s “Let’s Start.”

From Washington Post Nov. 2, 2021

Even the whistling p. 101of the metropolitan trains may, perhaps, be borne with if the drivers are not too ambitious artists, and do not attempt fantasias and variations on their powerful instrument. 

From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge




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