phantasmagoria
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The 90-minute opera is basically a phantasmagoria of how Schoenberg got here.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
Instead, the absence of information leaves a phantasmagoria inside us, akin to what my colleague, the psychoanalyst Andrea Bleichmar has described, an ever-shifting torment of shadowy images and fantasies.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023
Somewhere in the middle of the swirling phantasmagoria that is the play “On Set With Theda Bara,” indeed one will.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
So, the dominant artistic mode is phantasmagoria, in which the world seems surreal and disjointed, like the old joke about history: It’s just one thing after another.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023
Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Into the Wild
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