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fantasia

[fan-tay-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh-zee-uh] / fænˈteɪ ʒə, -ʒi ə, ˌfæn təˈzi ə /


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The movie, only barely delving into its subject’s troubling complexity, ends up flashy and glib, a loosely fact-based fantasia that can’t transcend its own shallowness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 2019, then-Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said City were in "fantasia land", where they could buy whoever they wanted.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

It has gone through many incarnations, including a mid-1990s renovation that led to its current, even more over-the-top state as a Czarist fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

The germ of an edgy fantasia about an isolated pop icon’s ego death is swimming somewhere in the DNA of “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” but it’s been flattened into a superficial, tear-stained pity party.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

Mr. Knoblauch's The Faun is a romantic fantasia, but is not without its keen social satire.

From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton

In Krúdy’s fantasias, the yearning for the past is really a yearning for one’s lost youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Its music videos, which had heretofore been so art-school obscure that MTV barely played them, were now high-budget fantasias with Stipe front and center, undulating like a Robert Longo painting come to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Fusing the bare-bones folk of his beloved 2015 album Carrie & Lowell to the grand, orchestral fantasias of his earlier work, Javelin saw Sufjan Stevens reach new heights.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

Rose Mary was a prolific artist who produced all kinds of paintings — rural landscapes, urban scenes, abstract fantasias, portraits, still lifes — but she could not bear to part with them.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

The composer of what operas, symphonies, overtures, choruses, masses, cantatas, sonatas, fantasias, arias!

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth


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