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Phantasmagoric

adjective
1.
Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.  Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic.  "The incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"






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"Phantasmagoric" Quotes from Famous Books



... Supposed to prove his presence, let's abandon; But on some subjects we should like some hints; When did he come, and what has Sapient Man done To justify his advent? Take him now, Apart from retrospection prehistoric, What is the being of the lifted brow Doing at present? Strange phantasmagoric Pictures of his proceedings flit before The vision of alert imagination; Playing the brute, buffoon, "bounder," or bore, In every climate, and in every nation! Homo—here wasting half his hard-earned ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 13, 1890 • Various

... this unknown man. All her terrors revived, and profiting by the curious hesitation that had seized him, she glided like a shadow to the doorway of the solitary dwelling, touched a spring, and disappeared with phantasmagoric rapidity. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... return, from joy to pain, from youth to age, from ignorance to knowledge. But the manner of the crossing never became clear in her memory. Details stood out mercilessly. Their relationship, their significance were at the time as phantasmagoric as if she had been lost in the torturing unrealities of a nightmare. Just after her uncle left she was called to the room of Perilla's youngest child who had awakened with a sore throat and fever. Against the protests of the nurse, ...
— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson

... ballad or a story could have been so in the thick of the fight. She was taken into the confidence of passions on which she fixed just the stare she might have had for images bounding across the wall in the slide of a magic-lantern. Her little world was phantasmagoric—strange shadows dancing on a sheet. It was as if the whole performance had been given for her—a mite of a half-scared infant in a great dim theatre. She was in short introduced to life with a liberality in which the selfishness of ...
— What Maisie Knew • Henry James



Words linked to "Phantasmagoric" :   phantasmagoria, surrealistic, unrealistic, surreal, phantasmagorical



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