phantasy
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Every age, Mackay writes, “has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2019
With the help of this projective identification, one can replace undesirable qualities with the stuff of phantasy.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 9, 2015
Below the waist, though, it was the worse; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013
Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar out of air.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happily, however, if phantasy dies, poetry still lives.
From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan
The "background facts to her nightmare," Britton writes, invoking Freud, "opened a door to unconscious phantasies of a dreadful scene of childbirth."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2018
It glided away into the unseen along with so many other things, extravagances, or if not extravagances, still phantasies of youth.
From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
We perfectly well know that pregnant women are frequently alarmed without such consequences, and the most fantastic phantasies may cross their idle brains, without any such result.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It is simply an example of the current religious phantasies of the age just before and after the Fall of Jerusalem.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
It would include chiefly the impassioned prose and prose phantasies of De Quincey's own work.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
