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

There is something more than the muffled phantasmagoria of urban life going on here.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023

From there, the "letter" takes readers through a phantasmagoria of wonders, describing our posthuman progeny as living in "surpassing bliss and delight."

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022

If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole