Sentence examples for dreamlike from inspiring English sources

'dreamlike' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that is similar to the feeling of a dream or that appears to exit only in dreams. For example, "The beautiful moonlight made the night sky seem dreamlike."

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dreamlike

adjective

Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

  • Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss, and while we must have spent the next several hours wandering the fairgrounds together, I can hardly remember anything after that.

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Location changes dreamlike, at whim; we are either in a mushroomy field in gorgeous countryside, or a Parisian room, or by a seashore or a graveyard.

The result is an archetypal Surrealist image: arresting, dreamlike, sexually charged, amusing and upsetting.

Related states of awareness may be distinguished from the dream experiences typically reported; these include dreamlike states experienced as a person falls asleep and as he awakens, respectively called hypnagogic and hypnopompic reveries.

Shanxi is a seductive book, a glimpse of a world of pagan custom that somehow endures against the odds, dreamlike and entrancing.

Where some of the above films are full of attack, this one is more dreamlike, but no less political.

A work of art that exists only as an idea, documented in his scintillating, dreamlike drawings, it is arguably the first conceptual artwork.

Philip Reeve, author of Mortal Engines series and Cakes in Space My favourite second world war set book is Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard, a child's-eye view of war which is both startlingly unsentimental and weirdly dreamlike, it's not written for children but teenagers would enjoy it.

Later rooms display his wall-sized arrangements of film stills from the late 1980s, full of dreamlike juxtapositions and faces blotted out by his distinctive circle marks.Mr Baldessari attributes some of his experimentation to having grown up in National City, California, a suburb just north of the Mexican border and well beyond the reach of any art scene.

Whether it is the description "you drag your shadow behind you/like it's a ladder" or the dreamlike evocation of someone who "wanted to rub his tongue on tree bark/and ask how it happened", these poems prevent "Love's Bonfire" from becoming too austere.

Edmond's badly scarred back and possible telepathy are alluded to but never explained, and the film's woozy, dreamlike atmosphere is more art-house than multiplex.But even the early enigmatic mood won't prepare viewers for what comes next: a distant atomic explosion, which the characters experience as a snow shower of ash, signals the start of a third world war.

Yet he seems to be declaring himself to two different women at once.Past, present and future, or different shades of past, elide in a dreamlike meditation on love and yearning.

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