Example Sentences

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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

The fighting went on and, to Doggie, the inhabitants of the outside world became almost as phantasmagorical as Phineas’s providential aunt in Galashiels.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John