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Meanings of phantasmagorical in inglés

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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        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
        Usage of phantasmagorical in inglés
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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
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        The play wove Bowie songs into a phantasmagorical study of stranded alien Jerome Newton's later adventures on an unwelcoming earth.
        The Irish Times
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        Eschewing psychological realism for poetic reflection and phantasmagorical photography, he has fashioned a sui generis cinema that has won many admirers.
        The Irish Times
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        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.
        Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press
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        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.
        The Irish Times
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        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.
        The Guardian
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        You go on to laud the "marching bands and phantasmagorical displays involving children and adults dressed as elegant birds, beasts and flowers".
        The Irish Times
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        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.
        The Irish Times
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        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.
        Seize the night
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        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!
        Jess
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        "In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.
        Crome Yellow
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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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