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phantasmagorical

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Traditionally, the weird, unnerving and phantasmagorical have not been welcome features in mainstream Hollywood animation.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

It felt very spectral and almost phantasmagorical and certainly not a depiction of a truth.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

With a crimson, alley-style set by Jungah Han, vivid lighting by Christina Tang and phantasmagorical costumes by James Terrell and Brittani Beresford, this show is saturated with color and tinged with the absurd.

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2022

When I spoke to Mogelson, he said that an important thing separating the United States from the war-ravaged countries he’s worked in is the phantasmagorical nature of the American far right’s complaints.

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2022

Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical?

From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold