fantasia

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 thesis of “Gasoline Rainbow,” the latest cinematic fantasia from the brothers Bill and Turner Ross, is articulated in its first moments, in voice-over set atop a sunset.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

And when Castalia went to her pianoforte, he woke up at the conclusion of an intricate fantasia quite in time to thank her for the performance, and to praise its brilliancy.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor