Examples of fantasia in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tilda Swinton is a lonely scholar traveling to Istanbul, and Idris Elba is the intriguingly coiffed genie who promises to grant her three wishes in a fantasia written and directed by Mr. Mad Max himself, George Miller. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 May 2022 The façade is made of silky black granite trimmed with gold leaf; the entry is a gorgeous Art Deco fantasia, with enormous framed mirrors and elaborately detailed elevator doors. — Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022 Milwaukee Opera Theatre opened its production of Dave Malloy's fantasia (pun intended) Friday evening at the Woman's Club of Wisconsin. — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2022 Further aggression toward the Baltics, in particular, but also in other parts of Europe and Central Asia remain the concerns of those not lost to far-right fantasia. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022 One top of being one of the all-time great 1970s New York movies, Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical fantasia is a rare film that’s about New York filmmaking in the ’70s. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021 With the fifth entry in the franchise, however, the series went Bond — becoming an international fantasia of increasingly fantastical set pieces, each one more ludicrous than the last. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021 Or write your own story in a fringy fantasia from Christopher Kane? — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021 With Harrow, a screwball fantasia of environmental collapse and other forms of self-harm, Williams and the ecological crisis join in ferocious embrace. — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for fantasia

probably borrowed from Italian, "imagination as a faculty, rare phenomenon, exotic object, refined ornament, improvised musical variation," borrowed from Late Latin phantasia "imagination as a faculty, mental image of something perceived physically" — more at fantasy entry 1

Note: The musical term is conventionally attributed to Italian, though the linguistic context in which it is first used is uncertain.

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