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Definition of fantasia
1 : a free usually instrumental composition not in strict form
2a : a work (such as a poem or play) in which the author's fancy roves unrestrictedb : something possessing grotesque, bizarre, or unreal qualities
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The city’s historical fantasia charms millions of tourists every year, but some locals are itching to infuse their hometown with new life.
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Of course, politically incorrect racial fantasia aren’t the only eroticized taboo.
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The Fantasia in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op.
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After all, the two men helped promulgate what is perhaps the right’s most influential conspiracy theory—that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, a racist fantasia that launched Trump’s political career and helped land him the presidency.
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The evening-length work — which Moran, Muldrow and an instrumental ensemble performed Friday night in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center — amounted to a kind of fantasia on Mingus compositions, interspersed with original work.
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The pilot was directed by Jonathan Levine (Snatched) and is a fantasia of oversaturated '70s excess, with enough gauze and smog infusing every frame to nearly obscure the bellbottoms, feathered hair and afros.
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A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s masterpiece, which is receiving a glittering 25th-anniversary revival at the National Theatre in London this spring.
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Even seen in two dimensions, the films will dazzle you with their relentless fantasia of slo-mo jump kicks, fireballs, and severed limbs.
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Origin and Etymology of fantasia
Italian, literally, fancy, from Latin phantasia — more at fancy
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