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

For me, that phantasmagoria included years of nightmares that jolted me awake.

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

Sen. William Preston, a South Carolina Whig, called the statue “the most horrid phantasmagoria I have ever beheld.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 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