fantasia

Example Sentences

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There, the mother darns socks and sweeps the endless dust, while the thoroughly American children daydream in midcentury fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 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

Any hope of Francis Ford Coppola reproducing the warmth of his best films was dashed by the sprawling “Megalopolis,” a Rome-as-New-York urban fantasia that, for all its delightful looniness, could have used some subway grit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024

It seemed propitious that “Suffs” would start out, like that other historical fantasia “Hamilton,” at the Public Theater.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

So: the sonata form—to set this aside means to extemporise a fantasia that is however not a symphony, not a sonata, not a concerto.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James