How To Use Oneiric In A Sentence
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On the basis of written documents, we can catch a glimpse of ephemeral spaces that were at the same time orderly and oneiric, unreal.
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A number of decisions were reportedly made about Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," at the conference, while numerous other questions are still being debated.
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The film, Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog), like Dali's paintings of that era, summons from the unconscious oneiric images weighty with a mysterious significance that would require an interpreter to reveal.
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In its own insidious way, the movie exerts an oneiric pull, as hypnotic as the sight of Skull Island from the deck of the fogbound Venture.
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This one is especially effacacious against mundanes; not only do they lack any serious ‘firewall’ against this manner of influence, but they are generally uncritical of the impact of their oneiric contents.
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In its own insidious way, the movie exerts an oneiric pull, as hypnotic as the sight of Skull Island from the deck of the fogbound Venture.
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Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.
Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
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This is what Bachelard means when he uses the word oneiric: a spurious ontology which relies on the ontic assertion of subjective experience.
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This gently warped, oneiric world is filled with an often vigorous physicality that can border on the acrobatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this spectacular climax, part oneiric and fantastical, the house on fire becomes, in its pyrotechnical wizardry, a final recalcitrant figure to Australian suburban space.
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Some images of the film seem heightened, romantic, expressionist, oneiric (like the phantasmal image of Raynal struggling against the wind).
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It's more challenging than Stalker and Solaris which, for all their suspension of action in slow time, retain a conventional narrative. Mirror is much more oneiric, a memory-symphony.
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The acting is superb, the editing is inspired, the noirish cinematography resonates with the oneiric mood.
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However impressive the visions are that much mediumistic art offers, they often have a fantastic or oneiric pitch, almost as if they were in a special typeface, emphasising their ‘inner’ perspective.
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We can scale up an oxymoron such as "He froze, turning his head slowly to look," into the more complex sort of narrative non sequiturs we get in absurdist or surrealist fiction, the discontinuities that give these works their oneiric quality, the discombobulation engendered where the sentences don't build up into a sensible sequence.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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Wieseltier often employs bafflingly obscurantist, elliptical, oneiric swirls of thought meant to wow his readers with his putative Kant-like gifts.
Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan
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Babydisco is an oneiric and playful introduction to club land: children take possession of a reduced-scale entirely rebuilt club with strong design, where night-club clichés meet childlike universe in a soft jewel box.
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Whereas the former reveals the sacredness of the oneiric everyday through various forms of storytelling and monologue, the latter, still maintaining those modes of address, also delves into dream structure and atmosphere.
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The Ghost's chassis stiffness — the source of its fantastic ride quality, dynamic competence and hushed, oneiric quiet — is all the more remarkable considering the four enormous holes in the body.
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car
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The special effects are eerily primitive, adding to the ghostly, oneiric atmosphere when he gets there.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dance scenes that fly from even the pretence of naturalism to attain an oneiric expressionism…
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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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But this totality still has strong oneiric qualities - dogmatism leads only to the hallucinatory domain.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Astley's is a kind of semi-ruined pastoral, a bucolic summer-hazed delirium shadowed by mumbling disquiet, in which mechanically-iterated found sounds are put into concert with an oneiric chamber music.
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Don't expect to necessarily view your actual soulmate during your oneiric journeys.
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Spence's haze suggests an oneiric perception of reality...
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station
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Again, there is a doubling: ‘A word dreamer recognizes in a man's word applied to the things of the world a sort of oneiric etymology’ Bachelard says.
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At night I had vividly-colored dreams — my oneiric life was bright, well-sighted, visionary in the truest sense.
The light that draws the flower
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Reason's inability to understand, let alone tame and control the realm of dreams, suggests that dreams may be the sublime form of intelligence, an oneiric logic or law whose murmurs we ignore at our peril.
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I have gone beyond the oneiric reverie of waking and out the other side into a harsh landscape of phospherent lights that cast ever-changing shadows, eliminating all depth perception.
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Margaret Robertson on Halo's oneiric call to adventure: Halo is a place where I feel peaceful.
Boing Boing
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In the field of anthropology this narcissistic consciousness, which prefers to measure itself by its own impossibility, oneiric or otherwise, but impossible nonetheless, hasn't stayed idle.
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The result is a risky high-wire act: loose, oneiric constituent parts patterned into a tight, cerebral whole.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But its egregious ability is that, he can weave all kinds of things into integrated, actual and logistic oneiric events, which are different of species, spaces, and times.
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Such details as Jean's address and vocation and marital status, even his surname, would only rob Laure's Friday night of its poetic or oneiric mystery.
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Over the years, Edgar has produced evocative, atmospheric images; her recent large and medium-sized canvases are imbued with a sense of oneiric space and material richness.
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Like all psychological symbols, oneiric flight requires a multifaceted interpretation: an emotional, aesthetic, and finally rational and objective interpretation.
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The moving image is so slippery that spillover between the oneiric and the naturistic is inevitable.
The Moving Image and Its
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Mimesis of the oneiric + mimesis of the text = mimesis of the story = mimesis of diegesis.
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