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A big rococo strawberry might seem surrealistic for a New York sofa bed, with sticker shock, too: $80,000.

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But it seems surrealistic.

The butter irony of striped prison attire combined with song and dance seemed almost surrealistic.

So the network of branches becomes a kind of surrealistic plumbing, albeit less absurd than it might seem on first thought.

Mr. Solares has written a collection of short stories, but this is his first novel, and he employs some flourishes that would seem to situate him in the postmodernist camp, including the occasional surrealistic episodes and his habit of mixing real and fictional characters.

By comparison with Cocteau's surrealistic earlier film The Blood of a Poet (1930), this may seem a relatively straightforward adaptation (notwithstanding the self-reflexive opening in which we see the director himself writing the credits on a blackboard).

At first glance, "No Country," which is a kind of modern western with almost mythological themes set against the landscape of Texas, would seem to be a surprising fit with the Coens, who are known for dark, almost surrealistic comedies like the Oscar-winning "Fargo," the Hollywood noir "Barton Fink" and their ode to stoner iconoclasm, "The Big Lebowski".

The overall impression is one of a surrealistic other world in which natural objects such as birds, trees, stars, cows, and fish have human emotions and human figures seem cosmic or semidivine.

There is fear here that the nation could soon become collateral damage in a financial crisis not of its own making, which seems to be unfolding with surrealistic speed.

Indeed, the gloom that has surrounded the team for more than a decade seemed to lift only for moments of almost surrealistic lunacy.

Bad memories of a surrealistic world and of being injured seemed to connect the individual to feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.

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