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Adjective
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Despite the book’s suggestive title, the landscape is anything but illusory for Abbott, who grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent the first 18 years of her life there.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025 -
Wells’s attempt to hold the two in balance relied on a division between art and politics, but that division is entirely illusory.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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But the sound and lighting effects get rather heavy-handed during Josh’s hallucinatory meltdowns.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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The sequence looks positively hallucinatory, illuminated by night stars and aurora borealis streaks in the sky above.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Some artists report losing significant opportunities and having to switch careers because of the genre’s downturn; others are paranoid, unable to discern the real from the hoax.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
2 July 2025
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After his season 4 stint in London, Goldberg (living alongside his wife and son) always has one eye over his shoulder, paranoid that the (literal) skeletons in his closet might soon spill out.—
David Wysong,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
Adjective
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Possibly the most surprisingly tender, yet still very funny, subplot in the film involves Lucky, a neurotic dog obsessed with weird smells and tastes, learning to love himself after an encounter with Frankie, an intersex dog voiced by River Gallo.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
11 June 2025
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Rick Hoffman also reprised his fan-favorite character, the neurotic financial law partner Louis Litt, in the spinoff.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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The fallout was immediate, surreal, and more than a little revealing.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Naomi Watts broke out with a surreal leading turn in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich is home to Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian, an imaginary line of longitude, designated as 0 degrees that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The soundtrack shifts toward lighter indie rock and away from brain-numbing redundancies, while the story treats those imaginary genre sketches like an accidental off-ramp left in the rearview.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
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“Delusional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delusional. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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