phantasma

Example Sentences

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

Marks of some outward impression were yet visible on her hand, whether from causes less occult than the moving phantasma of the mind, is a question that would resist all our powers of solution.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.

From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Between the acting of a dreadful thing       And the first motion, all the interim is       Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace