Sentence examples for surrealistic dream from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock tapped Salvador Dalí to create the movie's surrealistic dream sequences: soundstage hallucinations with enormous floating eyes and some perilously oversize scissors.

"Spellbound," with its surrealistic dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali and its gormless psychiatrist played by Ingrid Bergman, was plodding Freud, ham-handed Freud.

As a student, he made surrealistic dream pictures — which are not in the show — partly inspired by his early hero Salvador Dali and hinting, with grisly imagery of severed limbs, at tumid depths that his mature work represses.

"Familiar-Altered" addresses various sorts of realism, from Mona Hatoum's folding screen composed of greatly enlarged cheese graters to a mural by Kara Walker in which silhouetted figures enact a surrealistic dream about Antebellum plantation life.

Littell indulges in a series of surrealistic dream sequences and extra-fancy sex scenes (in one, the face of Aue's mother appears in a mirror as he's being penetrated), and his narrator (again, like Humbert Humbert) likes to remind us that he's still sitting there memoirizing away.

Crossing and recrossing the stage, their bodies caught, lifted and deposited, the dancers evoke the surrealistic dream worlds of some of Chagall's paintings, softened with a touch of "Our Town" and "Oklahoma!" "En Dedans" appears to take place in a dream state, too, with the passage of time and shifts in place suggested by changes in costuming and lighting.

Soon thereafter, Ben begins having surrealistic dreams and visions, which set him on the trail of a man named Henry Scudder, a drifter who crossed paths with the carnival many years before, and who apparently possessed unusual abilities similar to Ben's own.

"Place" is like a surrealistic, slightly dystopian dream, while "How to Pass," set to a series of pithy stories by John Cage, is Cunningham at his most playful.

He also played a mob-connected businessman in the television series Wiseguy (1988 89), a car dealer in the surrealistic comedy Arizona Dream (1992), a successful comedian in Funny Bones (1995), and an elderly jazz musician in Max Rose (2013).

It was like some surrealistic nightmare—"I dreamt that an Ebola outbreak hit Kenema, and everyone I knew was getting infected and dying".

There is a lyricism here and even one or two surrealistic interludes as the miners dream of food.