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/səɹiəlˈɪstɪk/
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[ US /sɝˌiˈɫɪstɪk, sɝˌiəˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /sɝˌiˈɫɪstɪk, sɝˌiəˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows
the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature
How To Use surrealistic In A Sentence
- With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely. Experimental Fiction
- Surrealistic and abstract human figures instead dominate his oil paintings.
- The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder. John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism
- In fact, I just went and bought the “Surrealistic Pillow” track (via iTunes) to double-check — yep, that final line is definitely “Feed your head”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sunday Song Lyric
- In my art, I'm somewhat surrealistic …
- Instead of religious iconology, Cartier-Bresson finds playful expression in the Surrealistic image of a pair of high-heeled shoes shaped like a heart. Two Sides of the Same Coin
- The surrealistic adventure game that will enthrall games of all ages with its moody atmosphere, you'll encounter engaging narrative and a cast of colorful characters.
- Like a surrealistic melting stone, the sculpture blows up, exaggerates, and even overthrows the communicative relationship of the nature and its subjective.
- The plots often had wild, surrealistic turns in them.
- He couldn't even begin to explain it to himself; the view was too vivid to be real, like some forest rendition by a surrealistic painter, a primordial viewpoint of a world undulled by reality and human pollution. The Woods Out Back