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or phantasmagorical
as in hallucinatory
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Adjective
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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024 -
In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.—
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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For someone who had spent most of his career with a low caesar, seeing himself with hair was surreal—and as expected, with growth also came grays.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The moment felt surreal, for a multitude of reasons.—
Michael Silver,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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To me, the ending leaves as an open question whether Tóth has retreated to illusory safe ground or found a more hospitable home.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it can only ever be seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Monday’s victory was only a month and a week removed from one of the more embarrassing losses of the Knicks season, an NBA Cup quarterfinal loss Young punctuated by rolling a set of imaginary die on The Garden’s center-court logo.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Ukraine is a fictional state...the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.—
Maya Mehrara,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Terms & Conditions, a kinetic blend of a fictional Afro-futurist narrative, archival research on decades of Black visual and multimedia work, and personal history.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Given the clandestine nature of the process, the true number of fictitious sons who arrived during exclusion will never be known.—
Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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It’s described as a biopic, but Peppiatt admits some parts of the story are fictitious.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
21 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
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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
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