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Former Governor Sarah Palin (Alaska): will not be ignored, even though people try to: Her trippy word-salad appearance on Fox during the shutdown prompted an uncharacteristic reining in of the Wasilla wildwoman, with Megyn Kelly desperately trying to stop the crazy train: "Let me jump in!
He gets tongue-tied talking about how great he feels when he comes up with a trippy image, a cracking rhyme, a tense punchline, the mute, beleaguered hoodlum society had made him into beginning to make a living.
Goffin and King provided the Monkees with several classics: suburban melodrama Pleasant Valley Sunday, the trippy Porpoise Song, and this overlooked song from their second album about the joys of waking up on a summer morning next to the one you love.
"Bastardilla", one of the city's few female street artists, pastes trippy stickers of matchstick children.
Mr Murakami's version is lurid and surreal, a thrilling mash-up of ancient imagery and trippy effects (detail pictured).One panel features a whale in stripes of yellow, green, lilac and blue, its mouth wide open like a cavern of infinity.
Ironically, the film became profitable in the late 1960s when it was adopted by the counterculture on the strength of its trippy imagery.
It's a weird, wonderful and trippy take on a traditional platform title that sees players piloting friendly little blobs through a colourful cartoon world by tilting their PSPs.
Titled Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early 80s, it's a trippy and sinister re-imagining of the lives of Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus et al as played out in locations such as Crewe, Stoke and Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
The scene is ostensibly retro: Colchester's Minories Gallery packed with artists and liggers, jigsaw-puzzle pieces being exchanged for free drinks, the walls and floors covered with Op Art and trippy digital prints.
A year after it opened, the Shard is reported to be virtually empty of tenants The scene is ostensibly retro: Colchester's Minories Gallery packed with artists and liggers, jigsaw-puzzle pieces being exchanged for free drinks, the walls and floors covered with Op Art and trippy digital prints.
Few of the opening cuts rush to ingratiate, preferring to burn slow on deep funkpsych-soul excavations: "Don't Wanna Fight" sizzles and swaggers like James Brown, "Guess Who" is a sweet-voiced Curtis Mayfield invocation, "Future People" gets trippy.
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The word "trippy " primarily functions as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe something that is strange, surreal, or reminiscent of a hallucinogenic experience. Ludwig examples showcase its descriptive use in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
