phantasmagoric

• “Yet we discover later all kinds of reasons and motivations which, while presented in phantasmagoric contexts, are not without significance.”

  'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_

• “His twitterview today with Jake Tapper is full of examples as he talks about Iran not so much as an actual country full of actual people doing actual things in a difficult situation, but instead as a kind of phantasmagoric canvass onto which we should paint a tableau of American hubris and militarism. this Tweet:”

  Center for American Progress Action Fund

• “Molly was looking out of her window, as it went past her with the slow beginnings of speed, watching the faces that drifted by, in a kind of phantasmagoric show, never more to be repeated, when, in the further corner of a third-class carriage near the end of the train, she caught sight of a huddled figure that reminded her of Walter; a pale face was staring as if it saw nothing, but dreamed of something it could not see.”

  Home Again

• “It's a tremendous challenge to the realist novel, and at the same time, one of its greatest opportunities ever -- this dislocation into simulacra and statistics, a phantasmagoric world of global warming PowerPoints and Big Brother reality shows.”

  The Huffington Post: Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment

• “But that's mere prelude to the film's raison d 'ê tre: a phantasmagoric journey through the Buddhist equivalent of hell in which the entire cast is treated to all imaginable — and some hitherto unimaginable — tortures.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Haunting Films From Japan

• “Called Arnolfini, in honor of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, the bejeweled chandelier, rendered out of glass containers, including egg cups and poison bottles, suggests a phantasmagoric Still Life painting.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Out of the Gallery and Into the Home

• “Chiara and Fabio are part of the same movement or fashion or compulsion: they have come from Italy especially for the convention, parading faces completely covered in phantasmagoric designs finished off with piercings.”

  The Guardian: Tattoos: Eyecatching – but are they art?

• “Polanski has returned again and again to claustrophobic or insular spaces: the yacht in Knife In The Water; the phantasmagoric apartments in Repulsion and The Tenant; the houses on islands in Cul-de-Sac and The Ghost; and the single set of Death And The Maiden.”

  The Guardian: Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film

• “Coraline's Other Father takes her for rides on a wild contraption through a phantasmagoric garden that he planted just for her.”

  'Coraline' looks great, but the story lacks focus

• “The holes twist through a phantasmagoric landscape of sand dunes thrown up half a century ago when phosphate mines worked the site, and which native plants and grasses have since overgrown.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Building a Course Makes Sense

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