phantasmagoric

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It certainly bests the phantasmagoric desert full of sandworms.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

Brennan: Your mention of Dylan brings us to terrain I’m better equipped to handle than a case of epididymitis run amok: The film’s phantasmagoric dogpile of cinematic, cultural and political points of reference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

But here I was, trapped in the phantasmagoric clash between expectation and reality, standing next to a man in a handmade hazmat suit who held in his gloved hand a '90s camcorder.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2022

For instance, her metatheatrical “King of the Yees” is a wryly phantasmagoric father-daughter tale set in a version of San Francisco’s Chinatown.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

And he found it impossible, too, to think of Margaret in any other than this his first way; the second, in spite of what he had with his own eyes beheld, remained unreal, phantasmagoric.

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore