How to Use surrealism in a Sentence

surrealism

noun

• A man’s dress shoe hangs on the wall, with a hole cut in the toe—call it forensic Surrealism.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• If the first part was shot like sci fi on some alien world, these scenes are sheer surrealism.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2017
• And then there are bouts of surrealism weaved throughout the film.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• The sale will take place on May 14 and comes as surrealism is having a moment in the creative fields.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2022
• Pure surrealism is available, in text form, as emoji, or with the help of Garfield.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2022
• Twin Peaks now has made surrealism less of a tool and more of an objective.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 22 May 2017
• There was also more than a dose of humor and surrealism to the 48-strong display.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
• But surrealism seems to be an authentic trend: the desire to show what is not quite normal, or just to the left of it.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2022
• Bisignano has now reimagined these pieces with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek surrealism.
  — Andrew Sessa, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Still, for him and for others, surrealism was often a genre too far.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• As the three cross paths later in Paris, Dupontel blends surrealism and crime drama in this epic story of the brutal scars left by the war.
  — Loren King, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• All of the looks oozed surrealism, an artistic movement born in response to a time of war and economic upheaval in the 1920s.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• But Mills infuses just the right amount of stylistic surrealism, LSD in the punch, so that the film isn’t just a period auto-biopic.
  — Katie Walsh, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017
• Magritte’s surrealism wasn’t an eruption of the unconscious the way, say, Salvador Dalí’s was.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• There’s a kind of a hyperrealism there and a kind of surrealism there.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2019
• The result was that the upright staircase leant the upside-down room a cheeky touch of MC Escher’s surrealism.
  — Michael Ward, Curbed, 5 Apr. 2018
• The surrealism in the video is clearly an extension of the shoot that created it, and the band embraced it even through the more unorthodox moments.
  — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
• After the first round of voting, midriffs, body chains, surrealism, ugly shoes, Y2K, popcorn tops, platforms, and cozy core had all lost in head-to-head polls.
  — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2021
• The world of Pee-wee is full of this loopy surrealism that could veer into innuendo but never got dark.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The fourth episode proves the series can genuinely shock, too, veering past cheeky surrealism into the dark web of true horror.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Black novelists have long used surrealism, farce and satire to tackle taboos around race.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• Other paintings riff on the flat, curvy and spiky shapes of Miro’s abstracted surrealism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 July 2022
• The idea is Salvador Dalí surrealism in the desert meets Metropolis meets brutalism meets gamers—which is to say, the biggest trip of your life.
  — Marjon Carlos, ELLE, 25 May 2022
• Large neon constructions added a sense of surrealism as DJ Timo Weiland turned tracks.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
• The solution to them will likewise have to come through madness, through the kind of earned surrealism that emerges only from the ponds of sloshy human confusion.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 28 Jan. 2018
• The film is a blend of surrealism, drama, rap, dance and music; showcasing talents and voices that both call to the roots of their art and lean toward its future.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Magnum’s post detailed some of the ways in which dreams and surrealism are an integral part of the event’s experience.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
• Part of that surrealism is in the dialogue and mannerisms of the characters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Imagine, for instance, an AI trying to invent the concept of surrealism in art.
  — Rob Reilly, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
• But the setup by screenwriter Neil Forsyth boldly swerves from phony realism to unabashed surrealism.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024