phantasmic

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When the poet tells us that, upon Napoleon's defeating the sections around the Convention, "the hour had come and the Man," and that the thing called the French Revolution was thereby "blown into space," nothing more silly, mendacious, and "phantasmic" was ever stated by sober historian.

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  • All the Israeli is entitled to know are various phantasmic narratives of Jewish suffering. —  Ziopedia - The Politically Incorrect Encyclopedia
  • Pan's Labyrinth is the new guide post for phantasmic metaphor in filmmaking of this type. —  GreenCine Daily
  • When the poet tells us that, upon Napoleon's defeating the sections around the Convention, "the hour had come and the Man," and that the thing called the French Revolution was thereby "blown into space," nothing more silly, mendacious, and "phantasmic" was ever stated by sober historian. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
  • "What life can be here but the phantasmic--the stuff of which dreams are made? —  Lilith, a romance
  • Israel has nothing to do with the phantasmic self-image of a 'little blameless girl'. —  Dissident Voice
 

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