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US
/sɝˈiɫ/
]
[ UK /səɹˈiəl/ ]
[ UK /səɹˈiəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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resembling a dream
as irrational and surreal as a dream
night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality -
characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows
the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature
How To Use surreal In A Sentence
- Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
- The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal. Times, Sunday Times
- His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
- June 17th, 2006 at 12:05 am just popping in on way to bed … my first french textbook was written by Eugene Ionesco … provided me with a most shall we say surreal vocabulary complete with the wonderful word “bathyscape” … nowadays my vocabulary consists of de rien and alors! with an occasional mon petit chouchou thrown in. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Waiting for Wankette
- Man Ray was experimenting with new techniques and compositions and many of the Surrealists used photography to signal that their art belonged firmly in the modern, mechanical world.
- Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
- Are photography and surrealism such an ‘unnatural coupling,’ as one observer has recently suggested?
- It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
- But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it. GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
- The show opened as a surreal oasis of calm and culture in a tense and jittery city. Times, Sunday Times