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Meanings of phantasmagoric in English

Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.

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Examples for "surreal"
Examples for "surreal"
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What you need to know about Courtney SHE called her nomination 'surreal'.
News.com.au
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Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize She said receiving the Goldman Prize was surreal.
Radio NZ
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Which made it the most surreal development yet of his young presidency.
Wired
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That's an area that's beautiful and almost surreal part of wine experience.
Radio NZ
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The surreal reality that conceived these monsters was extreme in ideology: chaotic.
The South African
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The whole episode had taken on a surrealistic quality in her memory.
Heart of gold
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Each line was encased in a surrealistic violet sheath of plasma glow.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
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How many surrealistic painters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Terminal Compromise
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The electric glow was surrealistic as they slowly drifted toward their rendezvous point.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
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A blown-off surrealistic arm hanging up there in the pointillistic mauve.
The Annotated Lolita
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Illuminated by that phantasmagorical light, they were dropping incendiary bombs somewhere on the horizon.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
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And when Larry Beau takes the stage, the landscape suddenly starts looking weird and phantasmagorical.
The Irish Times
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Here is Anne's take on one phantasmagorical, terrifying night: I shone my torch in the courtyard.
Wired
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The novel, and its five sequels, are phantasmagorical and psychedelic in the extreme, like Star Wars on acid.
The Guardian
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It is an event-movie detonation, a phantasmagorical horror and black-comic nightmare that jams the narcosis needle right into your abdomen.
The Guardian
Usage of phantasmagoric in English
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Nff!' moans William, fighting off phantasmagoric attackers with his free hand.
The crimson petal and the white
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What could be a normal scene has a magical, phantasmagoric quality.
The Irish Times
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At the same time, there can be a phantasmagoric quality to Osborne's monuments.
The Guardian
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Any further impressions belong wholly to the domain of phantasmagoric delirium.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
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The street lighting is dimmed to accentuate the almost phantasmagoric atmosphere around you.
Reuters
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The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoric effects of the rarified atmosphere are bewitching.
Arizona Sketches
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The transaction had been so sudden as to have something of the phantasmagoric about it.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
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But HBO's phantasmagoric new series revels in its dissonance.
Wired
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The air was soft and tremulous with a magical light that produced startling phantasmagoric effects.
Arizona Sketches
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The hanging folds of mist had curtained the treelimbs, giving the forest a phantasmagoric pall.
Speaks the Nightbird
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So his descent into the phantasmagoric forest continued, the rain sweeping relentlessly across his face and shoulders.
The Drowned World
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The filching from the world of one element of its every-day life had unexpectedly rendered it all phantasmagoric.
The Sign at Six
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For a moment, he was closer to despair than at any other time in the whole phantasmagoric adventure.
Hunter Patrol
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Godwin always felt an odd, phantasmagoric sensation when he traversed the moat of concrete surrounding the observation tower.
Angelopolis
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I was like a man flying through the phantasmagoric happenings of a dream, knowing neither how nor whither.
The Beetle: A Mystery
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