phantasm

Example Sentences

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Some are wildly extravagant, proliferating heads and arms into delirious phantasms of multiple personality and manifold temperaments.

From Los Angeles Times

David Hume, the 18th Century philosopher, described it as “the phantasm of the senses.”

From Salon

Even the implicit promise of a male-oriented community is a phantasm.

From Salon

And before that, I was reading accounts of specters and phantasms at a home built in the early 1800s.

From Seattle Times

Like most of the fears that animate the right, that's a phantasm, propped up to keep their adrenaline coursing and their rational faculties shut down.

From Salon