surrealistically
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a word derived from
surrealism.
surrealismnouna 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.
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a word derived from
surrealistic.
Example Sentences
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As he plays the game, the narrator finds himself surrealistically placed into a scene from his father’s life, where he controls the events that will determine his own future.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 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
The one thing is inanimate, the other animate, and yet they seem somehow, surrealistically, kindred.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2011
It seemed the one circumstance that could stop McGovern and thus undo the almost surrealistically effective crusade he has waged since the wreckage of Chicago in 1968.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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