phantasmagory
Americannoun
plural
phantasmagoriesExample Sentences
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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
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
Aristotle begins by rejecting all this phantasmagory of eternal and creative ideas.
From Delsarte System of Oratory 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
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
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