Daliesque
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Daliesque
Example Sentences
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His painting “Maison hantée” took three months to paint, and the dozens of images, many of them quite disturbing and Dalíesque, reflect the state of the world, he said.
From New York Times
He was dressed in a rather severe dark suit, no one around him, a solitary figure, available for a ruling if called upon, but looking more like a fragile figure in a Daliesque landscape.
From Golf Digest
I clicked the mandala again, and the machine continued writing its Daliesque version of Ross’s Profile, using, in addition to the first prompt, the prose it had already generated to generate from:
From The New Yorker
Take the piggy bank: Once a simple symbol for savings, it’s been transformed under Trump into a Daliesque container of grotesque impossibilities.
From Washington Post
Oscar Akermo, a wispy 22-year-old Swede, does Daliesque portraiture in black and gray ink.
From New York Times
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