phantasmagorical

1 At some point, the phantasmagorical became less central to him than the frightening prospects to be found in the real world.

2 Beau's stress levels fly off the charts when a trip to visit his mom turns into a nightmarish phantasmagoria.

3 “New Dawn,” one of Mr. Turner’s phantasmagorical pictures, portrays lava in shades of yellow, orange and red, spraying in a fluid arc as if an unseen hand were directing it leftward over the volcano.

4 Parts one and two both end in phantasmagorical and unlikely ways—these dénouements almost dissolve on your eyelids.

5 It soon evolves into a phantasmagorical allegory sprinkled with surrealistic scenes that recall Gogol’s “The Nose” and Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita.”

6 A few writers here serve up phantasmagorical or dreamlike stories.

7 He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog.

8 The large video backdrop provided yet more layers of phantasmagorical imagery, old and new, sometimes so layered that old technology, such as giant metronomes, seemed as modern as particle accelerators.

9 When World War II began, his family fled to mainland China, where his grandfather would distract him with phantasmagorical tales about a wise monk and his spiritual companions drawn from the 16th-century novel.

10 Rowe’s phantasmagoria returns this summer, haunting the Frost Amphitheater on the Stanford University campus.

11 “It’s partially why I’m phantasmagorical when you look at me. You don’t necessarily see a human, but you see a fool in the Elizabethan sense.”

12 But the last act delivers a creatively administered jolt of shattering tragedy: the 1978 military attack on Fela’s communal compound, evoked in harrowing phantasmagorical fashion with film projections and feverish ritual dancing.

13 Lush, bizarre, hallucinatory and phantasmagorical, the video deals with issues of transition and fluidity: life and death, myth and reincarnation, spirits and demons, a struggle for the soul.

14 But the watermelon is the special burden of the title character of this phantasmagorical theater piece, which opened on Sunday night in a hypnotic staging by Lileana Blain-Cruz.

15 In some hands, Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto can seem a less important work than his phantasmagorical and highly original Concerto No. 2.

16 Its members might be entering their 80s, but the group's rebellious spirit and rock & roll phantasmagoria is as potent as ever.

17 In images such as The Lonely Tower, done to accompany a line from "Il Penseroso", Palmer turns a rural Surrey scene into an unsettling arcadia, complete with a phantasmagorical night sky.

18 The sheer variety of ways that Goya contorts and configures his human and phantasmagorical subjects is exhilarating.

19 After the brilliance of Easy Rider and the phantasmagorical promise of The Last Movie, Dennis the director wandered in the wilderness.

20 Christie added her own superlatives Thursday, saying in a statement that she found the book “captivating, wildly imaginative and thrillingly phantasmagorical.”

1 变幻无常的

capriccioso

2 变幻无常

capriccioso fickleness

3 千变万化的

kaleidoscopic

4 幻影似的

phantasmagoric