Meanings of phantasmagorical in English

Illuminated by that phantasmagorical light, they were dropping incendiary bombs somewhere on the horizon.

And when Larry Beau takes the stage, the landscape suddenly starts looking weird and phantasmagorical.

Here is Anne's take on one phantasmagorical, terrifying night: I shone my torch in the courtyard.

The novel, and its five sequels, are phantasmagorical and psychedelic in the extreme, like Star Wars on acid.

It is an event-movie detonation, a phantasmagorical horror and black-comic nightmare that jams the narcosis needle right into your abdomen.

The play wove Bowie songs into a phantasmagorical study of stranded alien Jerome Newton's later adventures on an unwelcoming earth.

Eschewing psychological realism for poetic reflection and phantasmagorical photography, he has fashioned a sui generis cinema that has won many admirers.

This was, I thought to myself, the stuff of a hundred feature stories, the mother-lode of post-colonial memorabilia, the gateway to phantasmagorical explorations.

Hettie Macdonald directed the all-time-classic Doctor Who episode Blink, a phantasmagorical tour de force rightly regarded as one of the Time Lord's greatest adventures.

Of John's countless memorable comic conceits, my enduring memory is of the series of phantasmagorical birds he transformed a gaggle of 1980s politicians into.

You go on to laud the "marching bands and phantasmagorical displays involving children and adults dressed as elegant birds, beasts and flowers".

Through the phantasmagorical collage of the Kerry football tradition, there is something immediate and haunting about the extremes of fortune experienced by the Tuosist man.

With the moon down, it was easy to imagine that the park across the street was swarming with phantasmagorical figures under-andhigh in-themassive oaks.

She had lost her count of time; things were phantasmagorical and unreal; all that she could realise was this one overpowering, crushing fact-Johnwas dead!

"In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.

Illuminated by that phantasmagorical light, they were dropping incendiary bombs somewhere on the horizon.