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

Fourthly, speculations about phantasma, assumptio naturæ humanæ, transmutatio, mixtura, duæ naturæ, etc., were necessarily associated with these notions.

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

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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)

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

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas