Sentence examples for faintly surreal from inspiring English sources

It was an exhilarating and faintly surreal sensation.

Norris's production also has a faintly surreal edge which you don't find in Remi's cartoon version.

"The Hunter," filmed in Tasmania, has the faintly surreal look peculiar to Australian movies in which nature pulses with a mysterious, primordial shimmer.

All around them, in every direction, the level sands stretch vastly away, and this gives everything a weird and faintly surreal air.

Like Lisa B., he specializes in faintly surreal "hair couture," which has nothing in common with the macabre ornaments, tatted from the tresses of a defunct loved one, that Victorians once hung in their drawing rooms.

POROS, GREECE — Seen from Greece, there is something faintly surreal about watching the European authorities and banks trying and failing to work out how to involve private-sector bondholders in another rescue of Athens.

It is organised in two distinct parts, and the first finds Walter ­taking a journey through the seedy underbelly of modern culture, an ­excursion that starts, in faintly ­surreal fashion, at a "Babes on the Bed" ­competition in a Southend nightclub, a contest to find a glamour model for Nuts magazine.

Every scene was packed with surreal, often faintly metafictional sight gags (including a supporting turn by the N.B.A. giant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a co-pilot who denies that he's really Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and a cameo by Ethel Merman playing a psychiatric patient who thinks he's Ethel Merman).

London was rendered a vast no-go area for cars, and while there will always be objections to a sporting event having such an effect, for those of us who got the chance to speed through the City, the West End and beyond on closed roads, the experience was unforgettable – surreal and faintly transgressive.

The school board's decrees range from the surreal to the faintly sinister.

Everything is faintly absurd yet without the zest of absurdity; surreal, in a way, but with the power turned so low that "subreal" would be more accurate.