phantasma

Example Sentences

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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

Waken her, Burbon, and this loving charme, Which now hath led your sences prisoner, Will vanish, and her speach, full of reproofe, Beget a new phantasma all of hate.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

And yet for very sorriness I cannot own the weird phantasma real!

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.

From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton