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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: The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part I) Rex Pickett 2012

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: The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part I) Rex Pickett 2012

Far more rare and magical are superior mirages, also known as fata morgana.

Archive 2010-01-01 James Gurney 2010

Far more rare and magical are superior mirages, also known as fata morgana.

Superior Mirage 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.

In the Middle East, Stop the Killing of Sophia and her Children Now! 2009

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

OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 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.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

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

- Boing Boing 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

The Unearthing: An Awakening has Arrived 2007

And was that something nothing more than a chimera, a fata morgana, an illusion?

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004