Definition of "phantasmagoric" [phan•tas•ma•gor•ic]

• Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour. (adjective)
• Characterized by or pertaining to a dream-like blurring of real and imaginary elements. (adjective)

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