fantastic
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The biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this point the plot moves at a gallop, but it is really only a stalking-horse for the author's polished mockery and his gallery of fantastics.
From Time Magazine Archive
So, instead of accustomed adjectives like "decadent" and "bourgeois," China's press was studded with "fantastics" and "beautifuls."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yoda, a 26-in.-tall Muppet operated by Frank Oz, the man in charge of Miss Piggy, is one of Lucas' great fantastics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her models were what Milton called the "fantastics," a school of poets who mistook for manifestations of poetic power, far-fetched and strained metaphors, oddities of expression, remote comparisons, conceits, and strange groupings of thought.
From History of American Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
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