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

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

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him. 

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

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)