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surrealistically

  • a word derived from surrealism.
    surrealism
    noun
    a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
  • a word derived from surrealistic.
    surrealistic
    adjective
    of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.

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“The surrealistically easy money they dispense, Neuman stresses, is actually a ‘resource curse’ that all too often encouraged government profligacy, business corruption and civic complacency in the 20th century.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

“Adventure Time” creator Pendleton Ward surrealistically, psychedelically animates around interviews from collaborator Duncan Trussell’s mystically minded “Duncan Trussell Family Hour” podcast, framing them, to consonant or contrasting effect, as virtual interplanetary travel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

And while overhead drone shots are becoming a too-easy convention in contemporary film, their use here is refreshingly different, capturing almost surrealistically colorful landscapes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019

His poems are, by turns, brutally realistic or surrealistically witty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had Fischer not done as well as he did, his story might have ended right there, surrealistically, in the quiet back room of a chess club.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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