fantasia
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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
The putrid chamber drama becomes a fantasia, befouled rags turn into tuxedo pants and it’s finally safe to belt how they feel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
In the evening Hosseyn had a great "fantasia" and fulfilled his vow—and spent all his money.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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
But in general, these brief fantasias meander into blandly showy runs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
His extempore fantasias are mentioned by Gerber, in his Lexicon, as having excited the admiration of the most accomplished musicians of the time.
From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball