fantasia
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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
There, the mother darns socks and sweeps the endless dust, while the thoroughly American children daydream in midcentury fantasia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Shot on film by cinematographer Alex Ashe to achieve a warm, grainy period look, the movie takes its two-people-talking premise as the unlikely springboard for a subtly rendered visual fantasia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
One chapter looks at a literary example, William Wells Brown’s novel "Clotel," which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
The programme included 'an extempore fantasia on Erard's new patent grand pianoforte of seven octaves by Master Liszt, who will respectfully request a written thema from any person present.'
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Hence her association with the British artist Rogan Brown, well represented here, whose spectacular laser-cut fantasias suggest Elizabethan lace on steroids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
Visually, many of Beeple’s pictures mimic the Japanese Gothic fantasias of video games.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
Liszt began with machine-made fantasias on faded Italian operas—not, however, faded in his time.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker