How to Use fantasia in a Sentence

fantasia

noun
  • And the boom in fish has led to a fantasia of birds feeding on them.
    National Geographic, 2 June 2016
  • If the store seems like a luxury fantasia, that’s the point.
    Cam Wolf, GQ, 11 Feb. 2018
  • But then again, every sci-fi fantasia is, at some point, a tale of dark meeting the light.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
  • It’s my read of the play, as a family fantasia, a romance.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Or write your own story in a fringy fantasia from Christopher Kane?
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The bigger problem, however, is that the very idea that such a deal could be wrought is a complete fantasia.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • These days the property is a health-conscious, white-on-white fantasia, lined with private rooms.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2017
  • On the menu: beet fantasia, wagyu ribeye with bone marrow custard, and—decadence alert—black truffles (on the menu til mid-March).
    Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The plot, which has been constantly retooled, is a wild globe-trotting Cold War fantasia.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Only time will tell if this wet fantasia of a film can sivako, or rise to the challenge, and meet Cameron’s definition of success.
    Vulture, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Yet in Carax’s musical fantasia, people kill, get laid and use the toilet.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Thirty-five years ago the internet was a fantasia, to be slipped into like Narnia, at the back of a shameful closet, out of sight of grown-ups.
    1843, 19 June 2020
  • The shooting rips the viewer out of this fantasia into the real world, or at least an approximation of it, and sets the tone for what this show will be.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 June 2022
  • The saga of Michael Oher, as told by Lewis, always read like a fantasia, one intended to put the gloss of white saviorhood on a set of events that smacked of racial exploitation.
    Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Haberman has spent a good part of the past seven years immersed in Trump’s deranged fantasia of American life.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Outside, the station’s lawn will be transformed into a floral fantasia for the pre- and postshow.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The dream is of pure lightness (a film as fantasia) and simultaneously of pure weight (a film as witness).
    Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Its fantasias are more melancholic, its themes of longing more resentful.
    Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Even seen in two dimensions, the films will dazzle you with their relentless fantasia of slo-mo jump kicks, fireballs, and severed limbs.
    Daniel Engber, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The images are a nightclub fantasia that conjure the sense of decadent escapist release dressing up to dance all night promises.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The fantasia, which benefits Channel 3′s Kids Camp, boasts more than 1 million lights.
    courant.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Fantasia is a three-year-old Domestic Short Hair Tuxedo.
    Susan Green, OregonLive.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Extensions, partial wigs, tracks, weaves — all of it was fair game, a fantasia of Black hair innovation.
    New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • With that in mind, Town & Country created a feast and a corresponding fashion fantasia the likes of which have never been seen before.
    Max Vadukul, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2017
  • And now for something completely different: a gay musical fantasia about a prince who falls in love with a fireman.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But behind the Orientalist fantasia lies a microcosm of empire at the point of collapse.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • On one hand, the series (from first-time showrunner David Weil) is punchy and propulsive, overrun with toothsome dialogue and framed like a comic-book action fantasia.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Skolimowski’s achievement is to fashion this tale into a genuine fantasia, a road movie too freewheeling to be contained to any one domain or idea.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Just as Vogue staged a fashion fantasia that honored Britain’s artistic heritage, Moncler is looking back on its own storied past.
    Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2023
  • What unfolds from there begins with crazy driving and turns into a midwinter night’s fantasia, complete with picture-perfect snowfall, a storybook crescent moon and a lone skater on a lake.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024

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