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
  • But then again, every sci-fi fantasia is, at some point, a tale of dark meeting the light.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Its fantasias are more melancholic, its themes of longing more resentful.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Or write your own story in a fringy fantasia from Christopher Kane?
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But this brutal tale, which switches from scenes of torture to high-camp fantasia, sets a greater challenge.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 16 Apr. 2026
  • These days the property is a health-conscious, white-on-white fantasia, lined with private rooms.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2017
  • 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
  • Yet in Carax’s musical fantasia, people kill, get laid and use the toilet.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Made to order in Italy, the pieces are a fantasia—glassware that invites a double take, if not a double pour.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2026
  • 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 plot, which has been constantly retooled, is a wild globe-trotting Cold War fantasia.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Extensions, partial wigs, tracks, weaves — all of it was fair game, a fantasia of Black hair innovation.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • The economic merits don’t seem to count in this political fantasia.
    — WSJ, 2 July 2017
  • 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
  • Cale has, by that point, laid out the tropes of a typical coastal interloper’s gay fantasia of the Mountain West.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The city’s historical fantasia charms millions of tourists every year, but some locals are itching to infuse their hometown with new life.
    — Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 3 July 2017
  • 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
  • From tomes by landscape designers to paeans to floral fantasias by lifestyle gurus, these book releases will definitely get you in the mood for spring.
    — Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But behind the Orientalist fantasia lies a microcosm of empire at the point of collapse.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But that bitterness was nowhere to be found within the candyland fantasia that was Perry’s Teenage Dream era.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The pool, a multilevel fantasia of waterslides and relaxation areas, was laced with walkways shaded by native plants; our children played there for hours.
    — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • The fantasia, which benefits Channel 3′s Kids Camp, boasts more than 1 million lights.
    — courant.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The caravan story, a lurid xenophobic fantasia that has now resulted in thousands of troops deployed on US soil, shows that those threads are snapping.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018

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