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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
This included bobblehead characters with micro-expressions along with fungi-like environments and quirky creatures for the hallucinatory realm that the late David Lynch might’ve appreciated.
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery
Mary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse.
—The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.
—Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery
Mary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse.
—The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.
—Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
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With stages set up in and around the Old West buildings that dot the grounds, a movie set where Nelson filmed his 1984 Western Red Headed Stranger, the vibe at Luck Reunion is both cinematic and surreal.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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Most capture mundane experiences, impressive in their hyperrealistic way, but some are sublime, or surreal, or place you in a morally challenging position.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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The illusion of a causal connection People tend to form illusory correlations between objects, people, occurrences or behaviors, particularly when those things are infrequently encountered.—
Julia Standefer,
The Conversation,
14 Mar. 2025
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Here, the New York scenes are far too glum to coexist with the breezy maneuvering that’s happening in the present, and giving the lead an illusory disabled brother to talk to from time to time feels like the worst version of a wannabe Shyamalan twist.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
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Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.—
William Ross,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2025
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The system that most captured his imagination was an imaginary device that had launched the field of computer science, the Turing machine.—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
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Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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The report did not mention any instances of dead or fictitious employees getting paid.—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here are our 25 favorite pairs of fictional best friends from movies and TV.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Kilgore, his dream of fame approaching, also sees its chimerical agonies.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
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False Hope And Fake Assurances Ransomware operators also exploit victims with false assurances, creating a deceptive sense of hope that there is a way to resolve the situation.—
Stu Sjouwerman,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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That’s the film’s greatest surprise, its secret deceptive pitch.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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