How to Use surrealistic in a Sentence

surrealistic

adjective

• It was a surrealistic experience.
• Add this one to the pile of groovy, surrealistic anthems the band has been churning out for 30-plus years.
  — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
• None of the three made another catch but Keenan Allen, the rock, had a surrealistic grab.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• The original idea was birthed from a portrait of the French surrealistic artist Claude Cahun that Tessa shared with me.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
• The mural is an image of a goddess rising out of a field with a surrealistic twist.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Nov. 2021
• And then, so many of the film’s big ideas are expressed in surrealistic visuals.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
• Looking back in 2003 with the Detroit Free Press, Kramer described it as a surrealistic goof.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024
• Linklater makes this clear in a postscript at the end of the film, but the choice is indicative of the surrealistic spin Linklater gave Johnson’s life story.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 June 2024
• Nowadays, it would be considered more like a surrealistic take in the style of Black Mirror.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• Her bold, surrealistic paintings often depict houses, chairs and trees moored to chunks of land that appear to float in midair.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Madonna certainly wasn’t tired, and that was the point of the whole show, a tour-de-force of some of her biggest hits paired with surrealistic visuals that didn’t end until 1 a.m.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• The situation in the cartoon, in which the man is cut into three pieces but still alive, appears like a surrealistic artwork.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• Fred Uhlman, known for his vivid landscapes and surrealistic drawings, and Kurt Schwitters, best known for his collages.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Looking back decades later with the Detroit Free Press, Kramer described it as a surrealistic goof.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
• The goofy rom-com vibe gives way to a more serious and more surrealistic final chapter in which Emi has a reckoning with herself, with love and with death.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• Summarizing the surrealistic plot to the New York Times, Sondheim said the first act is about a group looking for a place to have dinner, while the second act finds them at dinner with no way to leave.
  — Barbara Schuler, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
• Many of these locales have the sort of surrealistic, menacing air of a hellish provincial town in a Robert Bolaño novel.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
• That to get caught up in the cryptic clues and esoteric callbacks is to miss the larger surrealistic beauty of what Lynch is trying to create.
  — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 23 May 2017
• When Tony and Maria see each other at the dance in the original, the entire gym goes out of focus, leaving them with a surrealistic kind of tunnel vision for each other.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
• Shaw's lyrics, full of surrealistic imagery and delivered in a clipped sigh, remained the centerpiece, standing out amidst the clamor.
  — Maura Johnston, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• Some of the poles bristling around and above the virgin form a surrealistic cross in a glittering fantasy reminiscent of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 25 Aug. 2019
• And to lighten things up, Deniot also mixed in a few whimsical elements, such as one of François-Xavier Lalanne's 1970s surrealistic sheep sculptures in the entry hall.
  — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2011
• Covers on the bikes’ back tires depict a scene from the show’s surrealistic journey through an imaginary Mexico.
  — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
• In a few pictures the backdrops are flattened and streamlined in the manner of Matisse, and the most vivid canvas places a tiny Krazy in the surrealistic presence of a massive orange pumpkin with a red sun on the horizon of a fuchsia sky.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• Chen, who is bravely wading into the commercial aspects of the market, gifted her guests a key festooned with flies (a nice surrealistic touch).
  — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
• At the same time, the show is really experimental and a bit surrealistic.
  — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The material about Ailes’s abuse in the seven episodes is less successful that the creation of Fox; the scenes of Ailes taking advantage of those who worked for him are overbaked and, at times, oddly surrealistic.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Lim’s approach is more surrealistic, but never in an ominous way.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The past decade has been a surrealistic nightmare, and far deadlier than both combat deployments.
  — Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
• Scroll down to see more surrealistic, mesmerizing images from the book.
  — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 7 Oct. 2016

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024