phantasmagoric
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It certainly bests the phantasmagoric desert full of sandworms.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024
Much that occurs is slightly phantasmagoric, resulting in a story of psychological disorientation as well as physical threat.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023
Its roof is supported by a phantasmagoric pair of giant concrete “trees” with swelling trunks and thick branches, the surreal forms contradicting the otherwise right-angled, Modernist structure.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
The same holds for Steve Erickson, whose work blends the phantasmagoric — in “Our Ecstatic Days,” a lake appears at the corner of Laurel Canyon and Hollywood boulevards — with the stuff of daily life.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit, to relieve itself, by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
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