fantasia

A vignette about Laika, the Soviet space dog, sets up a futurist fantasia in which a dogs-only space colony finally breaks their reliance on humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

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

So: the sonata form—to set this aside means to extemporise a fantasia that is however not a symphony, not a sonata, not a concerto.

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

But in general, these brief fantasias meander into blandly showy runs.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Then she sat down to the piano, and tried to calm her agitation by playing dreamy fantasias; neither did this succeed.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai