How to Use surrealistic in a Sentence
surrealistic
adjective- It was a surrealistic experience.
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Add this one to the pile of groovy, surrealistic anthems the band has been churning out for 30-plus years.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
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None of the three made another catch but Keenan Allen, the rock, had a surrealistic grab.
—Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
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The original idea was birthed from a portrait of the French surrealistic artist Claude Cahun that Tessa shared with me.
—Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
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The mural is an image of a goddess rising out of a field with a surrealistic twist.
—Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Nov. 2021
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And then, so many of the film’s big ideas are expressed in surrealistic visuals.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
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Looking back in 2003 with the Detroit Free Press, Kramer described it as a surrealistic goof.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024
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Nowadays, it would be considered more like a surrealistic take in the style of Black Mirror.
—Rachel King, Fortune, 6 July 2018
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Her bold, surrealistic paintings often depict houses, chairs and trees moored to chunks of land that appear to float in midair.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
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Madonna certainly wasn’t tired, and that was the point of the whole show, a tour-de-force of some of her biggest hits paired with surrealistic visuals that didn’t end until 1 a.m.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
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The situation in the cartoon, in which the man is cut into three pieces but still alive, appears like a surrealistic artwork.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
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Fred Uhlman, known for his vivid landscapes and surrealistic drawings, and Kurt Schwitters, best known for his collages.
—Peter Saenger, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
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The goofy rom-com vibe gives way to a more serious and more surrealistic final chapter in which Emi has a reckoning with herself, with love and with death.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
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Summarizing the surrealistic plot to the New York Times, Sondheim said the first act is about a group looking for a place to have dinner, while the second act finds them at dinner with no way to leave.
—Barbara Schuler, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
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Many of these locales have the sort of surrealistic, menacing air of a hellish provincial town in a Robert Bolaño novel.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
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That to get caught up in the cryptic clues and esoteric callbacks is to miss the larger surrealistic beauty of what Lynch is trying to create.
—Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 23 May 2017
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When Tony and Maria see each other at the dance in the original, the entire gym goes out of focus, leaving them with a surrealistic kind of tunnel vision for each other.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
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Shaw's lyrics, full of surrealistic imagery and delivered in a clipped sigh, remained the centerpiece, standing out amidst the clamor.
—Maura Johnston, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2021
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Some of the poles bristling around and above the virgin form a surrealistic cross in a glittering fantasy reminiscent of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
—Tom Noel, The Know, 25 Aug. 2019
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And to lighten things up, Deniot also mixed in a few whimsical elements, such as one of François-Xavier Lalanne's 1970s surrealistic sheep sculptures in the entry hall.
—Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2011
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Covers on the bikes’ back tires depict a scene from the show’s surrealistic journey through an imaginary Mexico.
—Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
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In a few pictures the backdrops are flattened and streamlined in the manner of Matisse, and the most vivid canvas places a tiny Krazy in the surrealistic presence of a massive orange pumpkin with a red sun on the horizon of a fuchsia sky.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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Chen, who is bravely wading into the commercial aspects of the market, gifted her guests a key festooned with flies (a nice surrealistic touch).
—Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
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At the same time, the show is really experimental and a bit surrealistic.
—Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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The material about Ailes’s abuse in the seven episodes is less successful that the creation of Fox; the scenes of Ailes taking advantage of those who worked for him are overbaked and, at times, oddly surrealistic.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
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Lim’s approach is more surrealistic, but never in an ominous way.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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The past decade has been a surrealistic nightmare, and far deadlier than both combat deployments.
—Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
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Scroll down to see more surrealistic, mesmerizing images from the book.
—Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 7 Oct. 2016
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Fornés’s surrealistic style, like Beckett’s or Ionesco’s, favors quips and epigrams.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
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Yet, in our current legal system, Young Thug’s surrealistic music seems to be what landed him in an entirely real jail cell, where irreplaceable years of creativity will have been stripped away by the end of this ordeal, even if he’s acquitted.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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