Sentence examples for surreal standoff from inspiring English sources

His arrest saw a surreal standoff, with his bodyguards and FSB agents pointing machine guns at each other.

What started as a dramatic and dangerous confrontation has settled into an at times surreal standoff that shows little sign of ending soon.

BEIJING — An American business executive being held hostage by employees at his medical supply plant on the outskirts of the capital spent a fifth day on Tuesday in a surreal standoff that has highlighted the dearth of legal protections in China for foreign investors and workers.

Surreal standoff ends with Chris Brown under arrest, but the R&B singer says he's the victim.

IT was a fortnight so fraught as to seem surreal, a standoff scholars have come to call the most dangerous moment in recorded history.

Msgr. Neil Connolly finds the whole standoff surreal.

While the city was largely free of violence on Friday, the surreal three-month standoff has often seen violence escalate just as it seems to have been quelled.

The standoff lasted about twenty minutes, alternately surreal, enraging, and hilarious: a physical confrontation between an unarmed civilian and an officer, this time eleven feet above the ground.

Standoff ends.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.