phantasmagory
Americannoun
plural
phantasmagoriesExample Sentences
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With these it is a hollow phantasmagory, where like mimes they mope and mowl, and utter false sounds for hire; but with thee it is frightful earnest.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Under this my Gregorian chant, and beautiful wax-light phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an abyss of black doubts, scepticism, nay, sans-culottic Jacobinism, an orcus that has no bottom.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Aristotle begins by rejecting all this phantasmagory of eternal and creative ideas.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
It is a phantasmagory; a drama the actors in which are not creatures of flesh and blood, but the shadows of an unreal world of allegory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
The picture remains, and the wonder of the world in which it was true once, while all the phantasmagory of spectres has long vanished away.
From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean
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