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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Alice-in-Wonderland
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With its heightened dramas, overdone Die Hard references, and ridiculous plot turns, Paradise is pretty preposterous yet asks us to consider it as a sophisticated prestige drama.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025 -
Even the most ridiculous forums make their expectations known.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2025
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The farcical comedy, which begins performances Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, is set in a co-working office building for nonprofit organizations serving Native American populations.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
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As the curtain drew to a close on the Obama era, this theme received a farcical reprise in the feud between Taylor Swift and Kanye West during the spring and summer of 2016.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
20 Aug. 2024
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Karen Russell is known for surreal storytelling and fantastic language in work marked by slanted perspective and outlandish scenarios which illuminate dormant truths.—
Lauren LeBlanc,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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In the midst of this dilemma, Miss Huang offers a surreal solution to the problems children pose in 2025.—
Anna Mae Duane,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2025
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This defiant and entertaining work playfully uses headshots and avatars to visualize clandestine audio recordings documenting years of Kafkaesque impositions, threats, and vital dissident art.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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The plot revolves around the Black protagonist’s Kafkaesque trial before the U.S. Supreme Court for supposedly attempting to restore slavery and segregation in his small, agrarian community near Los Angeles, and our hero’s reflections on what led him to this point.—
Barbara Ellis,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
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When film culture beds down with godlessness, the ludicrous result is Conclave.—
Armond White,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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In the days following the president’s ludicrous proposal, his aides and allies, in a familiar pattern, tried to retcon it into something sane.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
8 Feb. 2025
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The first supposedly scary obstacle on this trail was laughable.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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Its single most laughable choice is a high-key bonkers, low-key offensive twist that I am forbidden to reveal here.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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