phantasmagoric
- s characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys
- Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of .
- Because its phantasmagoric satire of mid- century life in Harlem and the American South proved prophetic, the book became a blueprint for inner-city discontent.
- But the strategic fire soon became a phantasmagoric inferno.