surrealistic

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surreal | American Dictionary

surreal
adjective
us/səˈril/
strange, esp. because of combining items that are never found together in reality:
a surreal landscape/painting

surrealistic

adjectiveus/səˌri·əˈlɪs·tɪk/

Examples of surreal

surreal
The action is also elevated to a surreal level where a struggle over power and justice is carried out.
Unlike in the stereo space, we are convinced to accept what was previously 'surreal' as real.
Details of the revolt were not themselves as material as were the surreal scene of chaos, unlikely alliances, and ever-withering order of society.
Electroacoustic music opens access to all sounds, a bewildering sonic array ranging from the real to the surreal and beyond.
This time the surreal images the words evoke could be given a rational meaning.
It is almost unbelievable, surreal no less, to imagine the production of raspberries there.
The jumps of lineby-line collage have been replaced by smoothed-over sentences of surreal hypotactic conventionality.
A surreal soundscape is created within a context that provides a remote surrogate for the sounds of the sea waves.
This suggests a continuum with real and unreal in each extreme, including in it the surreal.
They bend, squish and shape it into something surreal to be taken back and shared.
It was not enough just to speak the lines out and hope that the surreal illogic would somehow make the text seem interesting.
The birth of the surreal in radio drama required an appropriate ambience that could no longer be achieved satisfactorily from orchestral instruments alone.
Some of the example she gives of their propositions have a surreal quality.
His results can only be described as extraordinary, surreal and distinctly organic.
The energy of the train is suggested in the large opening octophonic texture which has been abstracted from its source, like a surreal ghost.
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