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Too many of the people we call pundits looked at him and his ridiculous digital trading cards and saw the phantasmagorial grandiose delusions of someone with superpowers not to be taken seriously.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024

Though his mind is finer than his means, Gelber is an intellectual twister and swinger with a phantasmagorial sense of the present.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality—a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

You go further and would touch the phantasmagorial veil.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

He seemed to be troubled with a phantasmagorial belief that all Paris had gathered round us that night in the Rue St. Honoré, and urged him on with frantic shouts. . . .

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John