The music of "L'Oiseau de feu" is really a fantastic dream-bird.
The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion.
The dense primeval forests, the dragon-haunted German forests, were sprung up again, fresh and cool and unexplored, nurturing a mighty and fantastic animality.
I'd rather be smashed up and killed--like grandfather was," cried Marcella passionately.
But withal there was a tenderness--a genial, though covert humour playing about his massive features, which awakened in Lancelot at first sight a fantastic longing to open his whole heart to him.
I have not forgotten a certain talk of ours over Falk Von Muller's Recollections of Goethe, and how you materialists are often the most fantastic of theorists.
Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow.
It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness.
How infinitely lovelier these Eastern homes than the fantastic extravagances of the Californie at Cannes, or the sham antiques on the Mont Boron!
The kaleidoscopic variety of brilliant color and fantastic costume seems at first a little bewildering.
In a town named Val de San Gil, the schoolmaster explained to him, with some fantastic details, the politics of Don Calixto.
In philosophy and history I hated speculation; but nothing was too fantastic for my ideas of possible occurrences.
My hesitations and doubts, my fantastic raptures and despair, my loss of the power to appreciate anything at its right value, revealed the madness of loving a princess.
It was a very beautiful mirror, the work of a goldsmith famous for his fantastic masterpieces in the precious metals.
Now, think of the almost fantastic security measures in force here, and consider how you would get such information, including masses of mathematical data beyond any human power of memorization, out of this reservation.
He sets up all these fantastic search rooms and barriers, and then he drives through the gate, honking his bloody horn, with his chauffeur's pockets full of top secrets.
He was in his best form, and full of a hundredfantastic schemes, by which I was to help him.
Then it was that the ideas would surge from his brain, each more fantasticand ingenious than the last.
Popular belief amused itself with reports of the wizard who inhabited or haunted the place, his fantastic treasures, his immense age.
The soul of the music was but a transfusion from the fantastic but so interesting creature close at hand.
And as these thoughts sent him back in the rebounding power of youth, with renewed appetite, to life and sense, so, grown at last familiar, they gave additional purpose to his fantastic experiment.
When we came out of the monastery it was already night, and the moonlight was throwing fantastic leafy shadows on the path, as we walked down through the avenue of forest to the sea shore.
I reply by a letter of fantastic literary conceits; I compare you to Hylas, or Hyacinth, Jonquil or Narcissus, or some one whom the Great God of Poetry favoured, and honoured with his love.
Ross does not seem to realise that if the theory were merely fantastic the public might be excused for condemning Oscar for playing with such a subject.
The flames were licking around the big sticks, lighting up the room, and playing fantastic tricks upon the walls and ceiling.
I never had any faith in their fantastic presentiments, and I am too old to change my views now.
Fantastic they are, no doubt, and romantic, but that they are real I can vouch for by my own experience whenever I was in love, which happened several times.
What could be more fantastic than a lover's stubborn preference for a particular individual and his conviction that no one ever loved so frantically as he does?
His belief that his idol is a living goddess is, of course, an illusion, but the feeling is real, however fantastic and romantic it may seem.
The good knight is bound to endless fantastic courtesies toward men, and still more toward women, of a certain rank; he may treat all below that rank with any degree of scorn and cruelty.
Especially fantastic are their "decorations" at the corroborees, when the bodies of the men are painted with white streaks that make them look like skeletons.
Two columns of the historico-fantastic might have been made out of that, with the aid of Bouillet and Larousse.
It was all Faruskiar's fault, and were it only for having wrecked my reportorial endeavors he ought to be hanged by the most fantastic executioner in China.
She settled herself in the easy-chair and, finding where Barton had left off, read on and on, until the type began to gyrate queerly in fantastic measure across the page.
I heard the doctors say”—a gleam of the old fantastic humor playing about her mouth—“that I had swallowed the flame.
One of the highest points of the Serra is surmounted by the Palacio da Pena, a fantastic imitation of a medieval fortress, built on the site of a Hieronymite convent by the prince consort Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (d.
The decadence of Latin early in the 7th century is exemplified by the fantastic grammarian Virgilius Maro, who also illustrates the transition from Latin to Provencal, and from quantitive to accentual forms of verse.
He grinned broadly, adding a fantastic horror to his visage which caused Zmai to leap back toward the door.
His small head and big body as he crept forward suggested to Shirley some fantastic monster of legend, and her heart beat fast with terror as a knife flashed in his hand.
Bitterly though he felt the position, he was of stronger mould than the fantastic Marquess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fantastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
