The phrase "as a phantom of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe something that is elusive, ghostly, or insubstantial, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "He appeared as a phantom of his former self, haunting the halls of the old school."
Alternatives: "like a specter of" or "as an apparition of".
Both made Democrats, haunted for decades by a phantom of themselves as losers who are weak and glum, suddenly feel like winners who are strong and joyful.
Two huge candelabra lent the scene a "Phantom of the Opera" ambience as they took questions from a rapt audience.
The one thing these tales have in common is that all the agencies involved are state authorities: private-public hybrids that operate as a phantom wing of the governor's executive branch.
Fetishism in fashion "comes back and forth in a pendulum effect," she added -- "there in '92 and gone in '93, as if the designers suddenly say, 'Oh, we're all finished with that S/M look.' " Sometimes it returns with an ironic nod; sometimes as a knowing insider's reference; sometimes, it would seem, as a phantom expression of cultural anxiety.
Tinnitus as a phantom perception of a meaningless sound has to be differentiated from auditory hallucinations which mainly occur in the context of psychiatric diseases and are characterized by e.g. the perception of voices.
The presentation of the character Virgil Incanto also went through several permutations, initially conceived as a creepy Phantom of the Opera-like recluse, and as a butcher who would be able to cut the fat from his victims, before the final "fairly normal-looking" version was decided upon.
Rather, it must either be grounded completely a priori in the understanding or be entirely abandoned as a mere phantom of the brain.
London had to give up the Orinoco delta, but perhaps as a lingering phantom of that larger claim, the coastal border between Guyana and Venezuela today runs in a straight, northwest-southeast line next to the beach, producing a strange pene-enclave [12] a dozen miles long and 300 feet wide at its narrowest.
Instead of tackling the crisis that is climate change, the Trump administration has crafted environmental policy so as to address a phantom crisis of overregulation.
