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Recent Examples of surreality
His music has spanned genres and mediums, with the composer filling various roles, but its through line is its sense of the uncanny and Lopatin’s understanding of how warping sonic textures can tap into surreality.
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Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
The surreality of Colbert and Dratch’s advice made this sketch work.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The longer Liz stays in that house, the more her mind seems to slip into a Repulsion-esque surreality.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
There are few characters, minimal flourishes of surreality, and a complete lack of the outré whimsy that defined several of Lanthimos’s previous projects with Stone, including Poor Things and The Favourite.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
The surreality of Colbert and Dratch’s advice made this sketch work.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The longer Liz stays in that house, the more her mind seems to slip into a Repulsion-esque surreality.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
There are few characters, minimal flourishes of surreality, and a complete lack of the outré whimsy that defined several of Lanthimos’s previous projects with Stone, including Poor Things and The Favourite.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surreality
Noun
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There’s an intoxicating dreaminess to the imagery that recalls the early films, but with a sharper focus on the menace Collins has always infused in her work.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 Apr. 2026
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There’s a timeless feeling of childhood in the unstructured fluidity of their day, teetering on the border of dreaminess and boredom, its possibilities both expanded and limited by the boys’ imagination.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Sasha is no longer a child, but an adult woman (Amy Zimmer) who, like Romvari, blends documentary and fiction filmmaking in an attempt to re-create or better understand the family dynamics that came to define so much of her youth.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
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For the week ending April 19, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That shows the unreality inside the Beltway Bubble.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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The theme-park-like aesthetic added to the unreality of Annie's situation, living mostly in solitary confinement for the years after the world ended.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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For much of the season, three trophies would have felt like absolute fantasy.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Surreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surreality. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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