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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
This included bobblehead characters with micro-expressions along with fungi-like environments and quirky creatures for the hallucinatory realm that the late David Lynch might’ve appreciated.
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
Though in a film where hallucinatory visions of wildfires attack Robert’s dreams, another tragedy is never not around the corner.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Wander through hallucinatory landscapes in a genre-defying melding of video games, short film, and generative art.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
In the hallucinatory new scenes, the connection between Lee and Allerton goes to places the earthbound book could never take it.
—Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
Though in a film where hallucinatory visions of wildfires attack Robert’s dreams, another tragedy is never not around the corner.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Wander through hallucinatory landscapes in a genre-defying melding of video games, short film, and generative art.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
In the hallucinatory new scenes, the connection between Lee and Allerton goes to places the earthbound book could never take it.
—Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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That must have felt like a surreal, full-circle moment to be coming back to this seminal character in your career while returning to a place that had meaning in real life.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Reminiscent of her striking visuals in the Louis Vuitton x Murakami collaboration, Zendaya appears larger than life—a playful, surreal perspective that echoes the artistic whimsy of that iconic collection.—
Mecca Pryor,
Essence,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Romance can be illusory while Mercury joins Neptune.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2025
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Naysayers insisted that increasing content costs would match the company’s rapid topline and subscriber growth, and profits would prove illusory.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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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The Emmy Award-winner plays the Black woman stand-in for a white male protagonist in an imaginary story to repurpose the popularity of a once successful Keyworth Pictures’ franchise.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Perception Of Threat: In situations of aggression, whether real or imaginary, a natural response is to fight back.—
Naira Velumyan,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Amid the audience laughter at a lecture, U.S. Navy oceanographer Robert Ballard bit his tongue and told the questioner the jewelry was fictitious.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Searches were carried out in France and Belgium last month to determine if his Belgian tax domicile was fictitious.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The star and executive producer briefly revived the series in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, two decades later in March 2018.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Kanopy won’t be competing with A24 for Sundance titles anytime soon, but Tyrell hopes to pursue not just documentaries but fictional book adaptations that can tap into a crossover audience of film lovers and avid readers.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Kilgore, his dream of fame approaching, also sees its chimerical agonies.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Battering ram with deceptive speed (4.51), but struggles catching the ball.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Key attributes: Explosive speed, deceptive footwork for separation.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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