Sentence examples for phantasy from inspiring English sources
noun
Dated form of fantasy
Numerous changes, such as music for musick (c. 1880) and fantasy for phantasy (c. 1920), have been accepted, but spelling has nevertheless continued to be in part unphonetic.
| June 15 at 3: Two more out-of-the-way works (Hindemith's "Little Musical Flower Garden" and Britten's "Phantasy Quartet") are followed by Brahms's glorious String Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major.
In my phantasy of glee there is no sea-light and no beatness, just the wind blowing through the kitchen window on an October morning.
Whereas the balance of feeling in De la Mare's early work is biased in favour of fantasy (or phantasy) and curiosity - Ann, Ann! Come, quick as you can! There's a fish that talks In the frying pan - the emphasis in the later work shifts to sadness.
Phantasy Sounds is another favourite – it's an extension of Erol Alkan, the DJ who runs it.
At first he only struck now and then a few hurried and interrupted notes, as if afraid of being detected in a crime; but gradually be forgot every thing else, and ran on during half an hour, in a phantasy, in a style extremely varied, and marked, above all, by the most abrupt transitions.
A storm turns to hurricane and Synge sees immense waves "rolling in from the west, wreathed with snowy phantasies of spray.
On this new view – modelled on his later understanding of phantasy-experience – retentions are intentional 'through and through': they do not have sensory-like content in the manner of properly perceptual experience.
Humans who refuse to let go of the 'circumstances' remain trapped in their own phantasies, and it is to this mental state that the scriptural term 'hell' applies.
His theoretical writings include essays on particular works, among them "Beethovens neunte Sinfonie" (1912; "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony") and the monumental Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (three sections, 1906 35; "New Musical Theories and Phantasies").
Mr. Ax accompanied Mr. Perlman, who played with a sweet tone, in the "Phantasiest?' (Op. 73, No 1).
