Sentence examples for distinctly surreal from inspiring English sources

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Where the drawing was whimsical, the object was distinctly surreal.

The effect is distinctly surreal — a bit like "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" for grown-ups — and Warner cites Salvador Dalí's paintings and the Pink Floyd album covers by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson as early influences on his work.

I have, over the last year and a half, had the distinctly surreal experience of seeing "The Hours" turned into a movie involving many of the most brilliant actors alive.

In these final black-and-white examples, Herriman's panels convey an irrepressible sense of movement and incorporate distinctly surreal touches, such as the thronged mushrooms that "rise to feast in florid fungushood," blooming like umbrellas under a cheese-slice moon.

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Some of the paintings and etchings Goya created in the aftermath of his illness also took on a distinctly gothic, surreal mood.

The effect is distinctly surreal a bit like "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" for grown-ups and Warner cites Salvador Dalí's paintingrown-ups andnk Floyd album covers by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson as early influences on his Warner

But the sense of surreal farce and the deep black humour of some of it is distinctly underplayed.

Its depiction of war has the surreal kick of Mr. O'Brien's 1978 novel, "Going After Cacciato," and a poetic pointillism distinctly its own; they combine to sear images into the reader's mind with unusual power.

Surreal Fantasy?

"Completely surreal".

Distinctly unappetising.

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