Example Sentences

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“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

In the early ’30s, he painted nightmarish images of women surrealistically fragmented into balloon- and boulder-like shapes, and he made their three-dimensional cousins in grotesquely bulbous bronzes.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

He instructed her now to speak softly and naturally, paying no attention to the traditional voice-culture style which he surrealistically compares with "digging post-holes."

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