phantasma

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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

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

With eyes tight closed one may conjure up the phantasma of green leaves waving and of meadows knee-deep with lush grasses and starred with ox-eyes.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

The sound of this man's voice, so lusty, ringing, and healthful, served to scatter before it the phantasma that yet haunted Glyndon's memory.

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron