phantasm

Example Sentences

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Like most of the fears that animate the right, that's a phantasm, propped up to keep their adrenaline coursing and their rational faculties shut down.

From Salon

In 2014, Ohio shortened early voting and ended Golden Week, citing the standard phantasm of voter fraud.

From New York Times

Brodovitch commissioned photographers who abstracted and stylized the fashions of the day, and in his own work, above all the renowned photobook “Ballet,” he blurred and slurred bodies into grainy phantasms.

From New York Times

This is a story, after all, in which dreams and phantasms are kinder and more sensical than the random brutality of the concrete world.

From New York Times

The book wields dreamy anecdotes and complex neuroscience to try to grasp the importance of these phantasms.

From Scientific American