How To Use Dreamlike In A Sentence
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This directed Gauguin's search for sacred art away from our world of afflictions, through a penitential view of personal martyrdom to a symbolist, dreamlike transcendence available to initiates alone.
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One dancer's traipse over a billowing canopy suggested a walk on the moon; another's gymnastics under running water was both dreamlike and unsettling.
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The almost dreamlike film that seems to cover his paintings, softening and refining reality, is swept away in the drawings on view, which have the immediacy, the circumstantiality, of life itself.
Two Complementary Quests
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Her paintings have a naive, dreamlike quality.
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This other world is dreamlike, dark and sensual; time stands eerily still, doors are slightly ajar with nothing but blackness behind them.
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Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earth has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can easily vanish! Mehmet Murat ildan
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Many of Smith's stories are rewrites of Chinese myths and fables, with casts of characters out of his dreamlike human universe.
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A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was dazed and dreamlike, seemingly unaware of the previous day's events.
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In Ghost in Love, Carroll does this again, but even moreso, using a kind of dreamlike fluidity to constantly rewrite the rules of his world and its magic as evil and good tear apart the lives of Ben, German, Pilot and Ling and the people around them.
Boing Boing
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And there is a dreamlike quality to her account of her meetings with lawyers and police officers that seems convincing.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Aside from dreams, a relatively large proportion of awakenings from deep sleep in laboratory situations are associated with reports of mentation and sometimes dreamlike imagery.
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Mr. Sher promised a "dreamlike" production, and once in a while, generically "surreal" things happen.
The Real Offenbach
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The dreamlike fantastic narration shows the authors doubt for life, cognition for absurd existence of individuals, and deep thinking for humans irremovable anxiety.
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The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is a noteworthy example, its playing characterized by dark woodwinds and brasses that impart a dreamlike, veiled quality suggesting the mellow patina of old silver.
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The dreamlike exoticism was heightened by a video performance of a '20s-style ballad, featuring the undulations of a laconic singer and a provocatively pierced nude male dancer.
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Originally open parkland on top of a hill, it is covered in a neat array of ornate, almost dreamlike, yet strangely functional Art Nouveau architecture.
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The dreamlike atmosphere of harmony and tranquillity beguiles you into thinking that nothing bad could ever happen in such a beautiful place.
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Fink's symbols, such as the bird, tree, vessel and Madonna, refer to dreamlike relationships and fleeting moments.
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Her colourful oils and works on paper have a naive, dreamlike quality.
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‘It has this surreal, dreamlike quality but it's still within a genre,’ he explains.
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Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earth has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can easily vanish! Mehmet Murat ildan
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Police Beat has a dreamlike quality; the strange crimes, quiet voice-over and soporific music meld together into a fascinating - and often comic experience.
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night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality
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Whereas if the film story has really gripped an audience they are 'in' the picture in a kind of dreamlike 'spaceless' space.
Ellen Sterling: Next For 3D Movies: Better, Brighter Technology for the Screen and For Your Glasses
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She had to sit stock still a lot of the time, because of the pain, but she made it a style; in her finery, she was a dreamlike vision, a surrealist object.
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The text, engaging and abstract, emphasizes the dreamlike quality of the imagery.
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Lang directs the 1956 film with a kind of dreamlike detachment, keeping the characters in close proximity to one another even as they never really establish meaningful contact, even when intimate.
Miscellaneous Debris, September Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
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I glided out of the house andante in 3-4 time, nearly floating, dreamlike, toward my destination.
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You knew how to find just the right dreamlike quality for the music, whose harmonic language is neither tonal, nor modal, nor truly chromatic, but a little of all three at the same time.
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This long-overdue debut from a born writer is a remarkably honest and disturbing book, which self-assuredly combines raw earthiness with dreamlike poetry.
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The place has an almost dreamlike quality.
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Journalist: I have a dreamlike feeling while sitting here talking to you about spirit.
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Photographer, Stephanie De Rouge, captures the entire length of Broadway in dreamlike overlapping images.
Blended Views, Block by Block
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As he mulled it over in memory, the entire day turned strange and dreamlike, yet menacing at the same time.
A Time of War
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The film had a kind of a dreamlike quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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For this is something both dreamlike and forensic.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are creations of sublime visual beauty and sensuality; dreamlike chiaroscuro and stifling decorative excess form the backdrop for melodrama pervaded by a diffuse sexuality.
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It's all rather dreamlike and surreal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The narrative is divided into three parts, but sidewinds into layered, dreamlike sequences that skip forward, back, and outside of time completely.
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Uchida gave an almost classical strictness to the sonata's opening movement, before turning the scherzo into a fleet, almost dreamlike vision, colouring the modulations of the Largo quite magically, and romping exuberantly through the rondo finale.
Mitsuko Uchida
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A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Often the pastures are swathed in mist, giving them a dreamlike quality.
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Perhaps it was their dreamlike quality or the way they could not be fixed in place.
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Instead, he just offers a dreamlike glimpse into the mental anguish of a tormented artist being crushed under the pressures of commercial success.
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The book opens with the gunslinger of the title pursuing the man in black across an endless desert, and continues in an oddly dreamlike (not to say nightmarish) fashion as we learn more of the gunslinger, the post apocalyptic world (that has 'moved on') and his quarry.
Great American Novels
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There is something dreamlike about the mood of the nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few years, Dada was replaced by the dreamlike ideas of Surrealism, which continues to the present day.
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No lover of France certainly should die without having seen Carcassonne, foremost of what I will call the pictorial Quadrilateral, no formidable array after the manner of their Austrian cognominal, but lovely, dreamlike things.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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Her last foal was the Storm Cat filly Dreamlike, who was foaled in 1997 but is unraced.
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Verne himself was not a great traveler†"apart from a week in New York and a few European excursions he never left France -- but he wrote the book at a desk facing the railway tracks at Amiens and the dreamlike promise of passing trains excited him, as it still excites strangers to the great European terminals who see expresses pull out with destinations such as" Praha "or" Brindisi "pasted to their windows.
Powell's Books: Overview
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The general feeling is very organic, nostalgic and dreamlike without being overly psychedelic and retro.
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Personal fave tracks on here would probably have to be the sublimely funky "Cool Steel" by The Firebirds, Wolf Baki's dreamlike "With You Alone" and the light and fluffy flutey "Street Waltz" from The Sante Palumbo Group.
Archive 2010-01-01
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David Mellon's mysterious paintings and drawings have been described as dreamlike, creepy and bursting with humanity.
Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2)
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Weaving numerous elements together, some esoteric, others fairly apprehensible, AW takes us on a dreamlike expedition into another culture.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – review
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I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden.
Zé do Caixao: The Nightmare That Must Survive
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A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results -- and the new one, "Austerlitz," is one of his best -- are both documentary and dreamlike.
The Art Of Autumn
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Everything took on a dreamlike sense of unreality, and faded into blackness.
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It reminds me of a lot of old folk songs but it has a dreamlike quality.
The Sun
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He has continued trying to change, shifting from dreamlike visions to clear landscapes, from oneiric symbols to poems about friends.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They moved with a heedlessness and dreamlike courage towards the doom they had so assiduously courted.
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It had a dreamlike quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above the clifftop soared the seabirds, pearly, dreamlike, their wings carving scimitar arcs into the vaulting sky.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Swedish vocalist blends chockablock rhythms, fairy tale instrumentation and dreamlike melodies for music that recalls a spacier, sultrier Feist.
JamBase
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I see noir today as very dreamlike, very fatalistic: you've done some bad things and some bad things are going to take you down.
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In the beginning it has an unreal, dreamlike quality to it.
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The dancer's movements were slow and dreamlike.
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A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
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That is not going to help me explain why Prozac makes people less depressed or morphine gives people a dreamlike state and as a neurochemist you can see where I'm coming from.
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Aussie dance rockers combine dreamlike synth and driving guitar to good effect.
The Sun
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Slightly hallucinogenic or dreamlike, this piece seems to speak of another time.
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But the dreamlike quality conveyed by Metaphysical painters differed from that of the Surrealists because of their concern with pictorial structure and a strongly architectural sense of repose deriving from Italian Renaissance art.
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A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Duchamp offers us a pastiche of Delvaux's style, his manière, which features in painting after painting groups of women in various stages of nudity parading through dreamlike landscapes.
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Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses.
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Her colourful oils and works on paper have a naive, dreamlike quality.
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While the play was confined to a single set and had a dreamlike quality, the film anchored the characters in a real world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously, we work from Schumann's experience to a strong subjective feeling of dreamlike fantasy and color.
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Despite Ebert's praise of the "dreamlike" qualities of black-and-white, it cannot show the full range of our dreams.
Archive 2008-08-01
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a dreamlike quality
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Finally, it was time to go—Parker and I had had a memorable experience, a kind of dreamlike twenty-four hours—being with the president and first lady is very special.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
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You knew how to find just the right dreamlike quality for the music, whose harmonic language is neither tonal, nor modal, nor truly chromatic, but a little of all three at the same time.
