fantasmagoria
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I'm all set for the 'trippy' scenes, special effects, & fantasmagoria story-line.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016
But the supreme expression of the darkening mood of aestheticism in British art – and in the V&A show – is in the gorgeous macabre drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, ornate fantasmagoria of sin.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011
There was a moment of fleeting visions; strange places he viewed, and strange creatures parading in a fantasmagoria of delirium before his aching eyes.
From The Copper-Clad World by Harl Vincent
Certain minds are satisfied with the fantasmagoria of their intelligence, whereas the voluptuary finds happiness only in the pleasure of realisation.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
Moreover, the quietistic note of renunciation for the sake of peace to the soul and integrity of personality is the final note of The Golden Fleece no less than of this fantasmagoria.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
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