Morgana

My vision quickly morphed into a fata morgana when she changed the mutual congratulatory tone of the call with: "So, the first thing you're going to need to do is to hire a line editor." ❋ Rex Pickett (2012)

Far more rare and magical are superior mirages, also known as fata morgana. ❋ James Gurney (2010)

This is not a race issue, a "race war", an apartheid fata morgana, it is part and parcel of a global class struggle, in which inexorably rage capital versus labor, barbarism versus socialism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the face value, apart from brilliant exceptions, nowadays the above seems to be a pipe dream, a fata morgana from the 1960s. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think I saw that, but in the same place I also saw giant stretched cows sailing through the air with horns prodding the heavens, a magnified image of what lay beyond the horizon, thrown into the sky and projected on its vast screen, a fata morgana, or in Hungarian a délibáb. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

Today at lunch, we had the chance to see a very cool atmospheric optical effect at the horizon called "fata morgana". ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Fata morgana": A vision of empire -- the Burr conspiracy in Mississippi Territory and the great Southwest -- Natchez love story of ex-Vice President Aaron Burr: a historical novel by Elizabeth Brandon Stanton ❋ Unknown (2007)

And was that something nothing more than a chimera, a fata morgana, an illusion? ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

“Fata morgana, an optical illusion,” explained Hrór. ❋ Michael Dahl (2001)

It was so cold that fata morgana shimmered around the distant sea ice. ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)

I didn't think that would fly; you have to get a combination of fog and hot and cold spots and pressure changes to get really convincing fata morgana in the middle of a city, and it's chilly and damp, but not foggy, tonight. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1994)

The fata morgana (mirage) is of common occurrence. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He had come to feel that human life, after all, with its storms, is a little thing, a dream and a fata morgana, which soon must give place to a permanent reality: ❋ Martin Brown Ruud (1913)

Just as refractions in the hot air of the desert create a vivid fata morgana for the wanderer, so her warm and colourful imagination possesses a wonderful power of giving to her visions the force of living reality, which is instinctively recalled by whoever listens to her poetry. ❋ Unknown (1909)

He can talk of sausages and silkworms, and forestry and agriculture and sheep-grazing, and how they catch porcupines and cure warts and manufacture manna; he knows about the evil eye and witches and the fata morgana and the tarantula spider, about figs in ancient and modern times and the fig-pecker bird -- that bird you eat bones and all, the focetola or beccafico (garden warbler). ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

It took the place of the faith he felt slipping from him-the faith that ever he would see the fata morgana luring him out into the Silent Places. ❋ Unknown (1904)

You are thinking that now you have your fata morgana -- nothing else. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)

You have been with me from my manhood, the fata morgana that laughed at my love of other creatures. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)