phantasma

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

The body of Christ was regarded by Marcion merely as an "umbra", a "phantasma."

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

The sudden presence of a raven at a bridal banquet could scarcely have been a greater phantasma.

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman

Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace