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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
My insomnia and the strange sky at dawn melded together to create a hallucinatory experience: the lights were moving, disappearing, ebbing, flowing.
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Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
With light, composition, and careful lensing, the camera balances the film’s delicate mix of levity and weight, grace and cruelty, the documentary and the hallucinatory.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
With light, composition, and careful lensing, the camera balances the film’s delicate mix of levity and weight, grace and cruelty, the documentary and the hallucinatory.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
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In 1986, Lynch released his erotic mystery Blue Velvet, which further cemented his unique point-of-view with dark, surreal story-building.McKinley Franklin, TVLine, 16 Jan. 2025
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According to Pinterest, the basic premise of Butter Yellow is imaginative living that includes anything from a surreal modern yellow bubble vase to a doll-like swipe of yellow eye shadow.Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Instead of enjoying my time with them and living in the moment, I was preoccupied with trying to curate an illusory holiday vibe.Melissa Jean-Baptiste, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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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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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
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However, that didn’t stop the fictitious school district from announcing closings as the North Texas deals with freezing rain and snow.Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2025
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Much like the fictitious film, Moss’s relationship with his youngest child’s mother has been tumultuous.Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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But Paco Ignacio Taibo II is best known for his fictional alter ego: Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, a one-of-a-kind private eye confronting injustice, corruption and crime in the noir depths of 1970s Mexico City.Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Like their fictional counterparts, Taylor-Joy and Delevingne often hit the town together, including a 2023 girls’ night out that included Taylor Swift, Zoë Kravitz, and Golden Globe double nominee Selena Gomez.EW.com, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The Franklin County and River Valley Coalition recently accused officials of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and a division of the building authority of being deceptive and called for an investigation.Alex Golden, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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Penelope in the Odyssey says that dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive, while those that pass through the gate of horn are real.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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