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Recent Examples of surreality
Throughout, the show’s trademark surreality and sense of play allowed Sweeney to act out massive emotional swings and to edge into the absurd, as in a sequence where Cassie strides through Los Angeles, towering over buildings and dominating the men below.
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
If this is a slightly offbeat choice for a midnight movie column, there’s something to be said about the surreality of viewing such an immediate and reactive artform from nearly 10 years of distance.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
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.
—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
Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
If this is a slightly offbeat choice for a midnight movie column, there’s something to be said about the surreality of viewing such an immediate and reactive artform from nearly 10 years of distance.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
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.
—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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Advertisement Michael, at his peak, offered us a cosmopolitan dreaminess that feels too remote in today’s hyper-fractured world.—
Steven Gray,
Time,
29 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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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,
11 June 2026
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Drawing on generations of Chinatown family lore and silences, See turns China City’s vanished streets and her ancestors’ immigrant gambles into a historical fiction layered with stories of survival and belonging.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The passion for sports is a matter of its unrealities—its past is more myth than history.—
Austin Elias-de Jesus,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026
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The unreality of Lexi’s play gave us a fun-house mirror of the show cast back onto itself.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
Noun
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From a fantasy perspective, Ronaldo’s appeal is straightforward.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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Stepping out in the French capital after dark, the singer and actor embraced a softer side of glamour, trading her signature slinkier silhouettes for a dreamlike dress that embodied couture fantasy and modern-day fairytale all at once.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
11 June 2026
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“Surreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surreality. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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