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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Alice-in-Wonderland
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Evoking Sean Baker in its style, a whirlwind 10-minute opening sequence — sweatily shot by Adam Newport-Berra and feverishly cut by editors Taylor Levy and Sofía Subercaseaux to a steady, heavy throb of bass — establishes this world to either seductive or nightmarish effect.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 May 2026 -
The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this, and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of nightmarish unreality.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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Americans perhaps make a bit of a fuss over how good the food is in Paris, but Full Phil takes this notion to ridiculous extremes.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Two very different shows, with very different moods, but two inspirational nights that prove there is no substitute for human enthusiasm—the more ridiculous the better.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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That Directors’ Fortnight entry slightly overloaded on farcical complications but breezed along on the script’s daffy humor, its underlying sweetness and the director’s pleasingly light touch.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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In a recent tactical blunder, the first lady’s farcical rollout of a teacher robot made unusually clear what this administration really thinks of children, teachers and schools.—
Randi Weingarten,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Eva Longoria took the subtle bow shoe trend at Cannes into Jacquemus’ surreal sculptural language on Tuesday, stepping out at Hotel Martinez during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival in the label’s black High Cubisto slingbacks.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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And so my surreal day-to-day, a regular life broken up by suspensions of my rights, stopped mattering.—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
19 May 2026
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Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
10 Aug. 2025
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In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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But these two characters have been at the center of some of the franchise’s most ludicrous moments.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Little Death wears a giant HVAC vent on their head instead of a mask, there are ludicrous founts of blood that would be more at home in a Troma film.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Michael Armitage, a British painter born in Kenya, updates old-style history painting with fresher, journalistic impulses to produce compositions—of chicken thieves, migrants crammed on rafts, crowds facing COVID-era curfews—that feel strangely dreamlike.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Droomvlucht is a dreamlike flight that remains one of my favorite dark rides in the world.—
Zachary Laks,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
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In this environment, the notion that any Pac-12 expansion candidate would prompt one of its media partners (CBS, The CW and USA Network) to offer enough revenue to satisfy current members approaches laughable.—
Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2026
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The dude has attempted to get into politics for the past 18 months, and it's been laughable.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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