The surreal gardens of Cythera contain all manner of outlandish, classically conceived decorative structures and fountains. |
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This is especially true in an age of reality television, which allow the news reports coming from Iraq to assume a surreal quality. |
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As the running battle was fought along the seafront, the scene took on a surreal sense. |
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For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes. |
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A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder. |
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian. |
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The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless. |
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You have to be careful when you incorporate breaking headlines into your scatological slapstick or surreal satire. |
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Another surreal moment came during the middle of a hot-air balloon ride over Serengeti National Park. |
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Its leader is a surreal portrait of art-school eccentricity, a social maverick up to his neck in the shifting sands of taboo and faux pas. |
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In one sense, to see this beast lurking so self-confidently at the edge of human society seems completely surreal. |
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The result is a sublime and surreal saga of self-discovery and personal growth, of existential doubt and doubtful existences. |
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However, this movie lacks the touch of genius that turns a mere thriller into a transcendentally surreal film. |
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It is mainly worth renting as a Montreal travelogue and for Marlon Brando's utterly surreal appearance. |
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The surface is dead calm, mirroring the surroundings, perfectly creating a surreal environment. |
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Two years ago I woke up on a day so sunny and gorgeous, it was nothing short of surreal. |
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His rendition eliminates entirely the bitterly ironic and surreal imagery of a rotting, burning body hanging from a tree. |
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His universe was a bizarre and surreal place but his writing also hinted at serious themes. |
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This lends a surreal tone to proceedings, especially during Matilda's monologues about herself and family. |
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And the surreal and brutal slaughter, violence and bloodletting equals the Crusades. |
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Outlined against the setting sun, the silhouette took on a strangely surreal beauty, as if a shadow's penumbra and umbra were fused together. |
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The Invisibles is a wild, disorientating, surreal adventure which splices big screen thrills to situationist philosophising. |
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Newman's skill lies in his ability to mix serious political points with popular culture and the surreal. |
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From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid. |
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The exhibition features a surreal and eccentric collection of creations such as three-spouted teapots and upside-down jugs. |
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It is rare, if now surreal, for a reviewer to suffer first night nerves but that was the case for yours truly on Monday night. |
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It's a terrible cliche, but his surreal humour was often closely linked with his nervous breakdowns and bouts of depression. |
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Also can't help sparing a thought for the families of last year's tsunami victims for whom this must all still seem surreal. |
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He is plagued by a series of surreal hallucinations in which his father is brutally tortured. |
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Driving into London overnight from deep in the countryside is an experience verging close to the surreal. |
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It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams. |
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There's a surreal one-liner about a suicidal subway train that's worthy of Woody Allen's best stand-up. |
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The gauze of normality gives it a hallucinatory atmosphere of science fiction cut with the surreal banality of the suburbs. |
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While not a classic on the order of 1991, this was a memorable World Series, filled with some strange and often surreal moments. |
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It was both empowering and slightly surreal, given my supremely stoned state. |
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He is a shoo-in for any quick-witted verbal gameshow that requires surreal rambling and a straight-faced delivery. |
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The entire film is told in a surreal and dreamily clipped dialog of imaginably fashionable faux-period slang and bizarre outcries of passion. |
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Adrenalin coursed through my veins as I realised how surreal the whole thing was, meeting people off the internet in rapid succession. |
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As Aspell says, the film seemed like a surreal home movie re-enacted by Hollywood stars. |
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These are not songs filled with surreal invocations but just paeans to love, life and the simple pleasures that make it all worthwhile. |
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There are also a few huge boulders which were chiselled into cubic shapes centuries ago and now serve as surreal houses and stables. |
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I heard somewhere that Salvador Dali used that technique in order to dream up his surreal images. |
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The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal. |
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The events still seem to have an insanely surreal and improbable edge to them. |
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She also has a splendid surreal streak, which she doesn't get to use enough. |
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She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal. |
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The whole episode, he says, had been so surreal he was expecting the strangest of conclusions. |
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This possibility was so surreal to me that I contemplated doing it just for the experience. |
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How we manage to exist like this, with these great surreal contrasts, is a mystery to me. |
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The disbelief compounded a bizarre, almost surreal fortnight for the south coast club. |
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It combined multiple monitors in a striking, somewhat surreal sculptural assembly. |
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It was strangely haunting and surreal and somehow gave the impression of being French. |
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That weird, surreal, juxtaposed image will be one that stays with me forever. |
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These are combined with compositions straight out of film noir at its most surreal. |
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Decision met with a surreal mix of silence and a notable lack of complaints from anyone in a red and white shirt. |
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The middle act is more reflective, even surreal, as Bill details his adventures parasailing in the Caribbean while under the influence. |
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The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial. |
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The characters in this live-action film resemble claymation figures, which gives the film a surreal aura of detachment. |
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I try never to forget that even for the powerful and their patsies, this is all a surreal and confusing game. |
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We sat chatting about all sorts of surreal stuff and then Bri poured us both a glass of pear cider with ice. |
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That being said, it is sad to see these iconic iconoclasts exhibiting less than their expected quotient of surreal mayhem. |
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The Woodentops were a surreal family who were carved out of bits of wood, very possibly clothes pegs. |
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I admired the energy of the prose, the juxtapositions, the surreal imagery, the insights. |
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Here then is nostalgia with a personal intensity within a poem that evokes language games and surreal imagery. |
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The positivity that permeates this stadium is fast becoming the most surreal thing of all. |
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Choosing such a setting is creative, it brings a surreal quality, like a fairyland story book. |
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Dan's quick-witted mind and surreal flights of fancy have delighted both critics and comedy audiences alike. |
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What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all. |
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Nevertheless, covering a war for a women's fashion magazine is surely as surreal as it gets, he acknowledges. |
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I'm terrible at fashioning snappy comebacks to surreal arguments, but I do pride myself on re-engineering odd bureaucratic strange-loops. |
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The whole army was dressed in old British army fatigues from World War II, which gave the situation a surreal cinematic air. |
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I am indebted to three of these crisis clubs for giving me an excellent, if slightly surreal, grounding in football management. |
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Instead he enters the surreal nightmare of the seeping, stinking trenches on the Western front, where he keeps company with rats not birds. |
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Aside from its value as a companion to the various Wu-Tang projects, The Wu-Tang Manual drives home the surreal nature of the entire phenomenon. |
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It was a suitably surreal showpiece for a night that confounded all expectations. |
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Everything seemed so strange, so surreal almost, and yet with a definite air of finality. |
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But the surreal intangibility of her surroundings was probably enhanced by her lack of sleep as well. |
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They have created their own surreal world where criminals are fingered before they commit crimes. |
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The evening might best be described as a surreal musical revue with spoken-word interludes and snatches of drama. |
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The killing, actually, starts with the surreal emptiness and manufactured optimism of party conferences and conventions. |
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But the house-share, thankfully, was just a springboard for some surreal flights of fancy, particularly aimed at film buffs. |
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Instead of competing with these fantasies, I counter with culinary theatrics from my surreal bag of tricks. |
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The Goon Show was a breath of surreal fresh air in dreary post-war Britain. |
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Only, the surface of the fruit is covered with crystal, giving it a surreal look. |
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Composed at speed and in anger, the poem uses the popular ballad form with immense power and sometimes surreal effect. |
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The colors and moods combine with the actors' performances and haunting musical cues to create a slightly surreal atmosphere. |
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Born to shout, he is Sid without the classical education, the Geordie patois and the surreal wit, but with a moustache. |
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The loss of innocent life and national terror induced by our defenselessness has taken on a surreal quality that is far beyond my experience. |
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Flashing brilliant sparks of glittering light as they hover and dart among flowers, hummingbirds evoke a surreal magic. |
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While Rawlin and David, looking like mongrels back from a prowl, laugh and stare at us like we were some sort of surreal aliens. |
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Her portraits combine the surreal angst of the multifigure pieces with the depictive skill of the still lifes. |
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Furry bodies eclipsed the fans of light spilling through the shutters, turning the scene surreal. |
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Every few yards there is a surreal spectacle, a puzzling riddle or a mysterious door. |
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There is something cinematically surreal about a number of Wasserman's diaristic scenarios. |
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Only guttural grunts and surreal words-in-isolation issued from my brain and mouth while the record played. |
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Bert was stunned as the surreal scene continued to unfold in front of his bleary, disbelieving eyes. |
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This is music that perfectly captures the surreal emptiness of everyday life in a digital world. |
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And afterwards, I was left with a straight flush of surreal, striking, disconnected impressions and memories. |
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The result is a surreal, hypnotic journey into morally ambiguous territory, led by an increasingly dubious tour guide. |
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This sort of thing seems surreal to Ranch, the Minor League Player of the Year, so you'll have to excuse him if he does not seem excited. |
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Short kurtis, dupattas, basic skirts, wrap-arounds and lungis came next, in what was a surreal riot of colours. |
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Being married is so normal until I think about it, and then it is a maze of surreal absurdity. |
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Countering accusations of dullness, the insurer's job often borders on the surreal. |
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It's a surreal picture, me with a duster in my hand and her staring at me, accusingly. |
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Entire excerpts from previous movies are lifted, but with surreal twists on the already surreal situations insinuated to great comic success. |
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And because the movie is an adaption of a novel, the script is just remarkably surreal. |
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A movie like this just seems too surreal, too impossible in our well-documented, investigative journalistic world. |
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It seemed surreal that we would be discussing such a topic amidst such joviality. |
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The long greasy blond locks in his face, the raspiness to his voice and his stage presence all scream Cobain in a surreal, time-travel way. |
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It's surreal, to see somebody who looks like fiction, standing there in the room. |
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The camp greeted us with the surreal vision of a linen-covered dining table set on the bank, aglow in candlelight and sparkling crystal. |
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There was a time, and it is only a couple of years ago, when all this would seem surreal. |
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The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character. |
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People in Dublin stood in stunned silence outside of a shop window displaying dozens of televisions playing the surreal images. |
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What distinguishes Harcourt from his contemporaries is the way he laces his stories with wistful charm and surreal humour. |
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The report, though, was inspired, becoming increasingly surreal as different types of music were played to the poor gobblers. |
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Grease Monkeys is no-holds-barred tv, a bit surreal and often near the knuckle. |
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This style is evident in her surreal, moody landscapes and still lifes, which the artist describes as balanced and serene. |
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Shlosberg's oil paintings are interwoven with Russian folklore in both large and small-scale surreal landscapes and cityscapes. |
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The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore. |
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Townsend's contemporary work combines photo-realistic renderings of surreal settings which include cityscapes, organic forms and common objects. |
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It makes for delightfully entertaining reading, in a sort of surreal and amoral sort of way. |
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The second movement is like the surreal reprise of the first that it is supposed to be. |
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Paul is manic and edgy on stage, with the occasional flash of surreal genius. |
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More surreal still, they are so in demand that lifestyle television can barely contain them. |
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Herzog is an uncompromising filmmaker whose works have, as their lynchpins, visions of surreal, breathtaking intensity. |
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The air had a hallucinatory clarity tonight with the bank towers etched against the sky and a surreal arc of sprinklers tending the fields below. |
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His surreal anarchic wit inspired the subsequent scribblings of the monty python Crew. |
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The naked red light bulb gave the room an eerie surreal aura. |
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The sky is gun metal, casting a surreal light on to lush green fields, the sea is calm before us and Arran looms up solid and beautiful across the Kilbrannan Sound. |
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The entire experience since they had entered the palace felt surreal, and she wondered dizzily and somewhat vaguely if she was going to faint again. |
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There is something deeply surreal about sitting in a bar in Bilbao and watching Australian equestrians compete in the Olympics with the commentary in Spanish. |
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Even for our greatest philosopher of the surreal, Sigmund Freud, reality remained rooted in the personal and social. |
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The opening sequence borders on magic realism in its surreal progression from the plausible, to the credibility-straining, to over-the-top mayhem. |
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Its presence is veraciously awe-inspiring and still a bit surreal. |
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But there's another interesting quality of the prose poem apart from that surreal experience presented with the openness of a passive dream state. |
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Please keep your answers clean and tasteful, and only slightly surreal. |
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The exhibition features a surreal and eccentric collection of creations such as three spouted teapots and upside down jugs, and opens tomorrow, Saturday. |
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Events in the office continue to take a turn for the surreal. |
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These surreal images are now seared indelibly into our memories. |
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Two silent support performers add to the atmosphere of surreal menace. |
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Although Ashish bowled as if to the manner born, for Diwan Singh, his son's journey from a local school ground to superstardom in Durban seems surreal. |
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This may sound like a surreal vignette from Oktoberfest, Munich's annual booze beano, which kicks off this weekend, but this was a much more local, less commercialised affair. |
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Sacks discusses this surreal experience with great humor, but he makes no bones about his misgivings. |
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The man toppled forward, and a surreal silence followed as though reality had to recalibrate. |
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But he has the ability to run with issues, to blend text messages and audience e-mails into the mix, constructing a surreal farrago of opinion and comment. |
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Yet so convincingly does Sidibe play the part that meeting the actress for the first time is jarringly surreal. |
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And the word came out that everyone not in should stay away, and that those who were in should stay in the office as it was safest, and it just got more and more surreal. |
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It must be surreal to be working on a movie in the Rocky franchise and have Sylvester Stallone actually be there. |
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In juxtaposing a photograph with other elements, Woodman brought together different time spans, historical and spatial contexts and art forms for a totally surreal effect. |
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The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots. |
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On the eve of the Amanda Knox appellate verdict decision, Perugia was alight with a sort of surreal buzz. |
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She giggled, filling his ears with that same surreal silvery laugh. |
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Was that surreal to you, to see the story playing out and to see the characters with your own eyes in a private screening? |
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She is a sculptor who makes feature films, a performance artist who constructs elaborate mechanised contraptions, a poet who straps on surreal extensions to the human body. |
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The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall. |
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The lighting is usually subdued, making colours appear surreal. |
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The fact that he's simultaneously miming the drum parts, semaphoring the instrumental twiddles and playing an air guitar only adds to the surreal nature of the occasion. |
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The closing minutes and stoppage time produced much in the way of drama, albeit played out against the surreal backdrop of supporters streaming towards the exit. |
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The bit with the nomads in the woods and the dog, it is such a surreal moment, with him putting the bones in his pocket. |
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Meanwhile, his friend Noel Fielding, who can get surreal without the help of wheat beer, won't stop wittering about shamans and mermen and people made of biscuits. |
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The artificiality of the TV show, when paired with the growing intimacy between the cast members, was often jarringly surreal. |
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I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by stingrays, dolphins, Napoleons, moray eels. |
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He sets up scenes of surreal brilliance, like the estranged husband practising tennis shots in an empty swimming pool, while his wife entertains her masseur in the bedroom. |
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Dining out in Japan is a lot more diverse and surreal than it used to be. |
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There followed a series of rooms and scenes, showing various horrors or surreal scenes. |
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Nguyen uses magic realism to tell this story, mixing the surreal with the real, to effectively tell the disheartening tale. |
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With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details. |
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Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations. |
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Her work is imbued with a keen sense of the macabre and the wittily surreal and draws heavily on symbolism and themes derived from traditional fairy tales and folk myths. |
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In the period before political independence, Francophone prose was typically elevated, extravagant, mythopoeic, and laced with surreal fantasy or utopian symbolism. |
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While often surreal and almost intriguing, the film lacks direction. |
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Lawrence Osborne on the tragedy and surreal beauty of the political battle between the opposing yellows and Reds. |
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Then when I went to Zurich and saw pictures of myself in the newspaper, it was surreal. |
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Their sparse details and antic distortions are surreal yet recognizable enough to hit the target, whether it's a powerful politician or a basic human type. |
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The lion has lain down with the lamb, in other words, and the unanimity seems so surreal that I might as well keep dreaming. |
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Oddly though, once my brain internalized my surroundings as a surreal stage setting, removed from what would be normally acceptable to my senses, I felt at ease. |
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Masked parties have an amazingly liberating effect on people, and making the surroundings a little surreal also helps transport your guests to party land. |
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It is sufficiently perturbed by this pandemic of kids carrying out surreal stunts on strangers to issue handy hints on how to spot a happy slapper who's about to cuff you one. |
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I spent a surreal evening watching all 85 episodes and gathered the best of the worst big ideas from the firearm luminaries. |
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I was surprised and flattered and it felt surreal and natural at the same time. |
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And the surreal official merchandise has to be seen to even be fathomed. |
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Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline. |
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But the bulk of them are so idiotic, so literal-minded, so surreal that they would barely merit mention if they were not part of a concerted attempt to smear him. |
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Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage. |
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Martinu's mind flits about from idea to idea in a surreal way. |
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It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and kind of surreal,'' said Christopher Sutton, one of Elway's former high school receivers. |
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Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure! |
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In the September 1976 column he reviewed Conway's book On Numbers and Games and introduced the public to Conway's surreal numbers. |
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When a little older, she moved on to reading the surreal verse of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. |
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His works were notable for their surreal elements, with perhaps the most famous being the cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. |
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His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural. |
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The bloated result is vaguely surreal but consistent with a vernacular familiar from the contents of wax museums and Disneyland. |
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The artwork has a gritty, surreal style that aptly reflects the ruthlessness of interdimensional war. |
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It feels very surreal, like an out-of-body experience, like I'm back here watching this going on, that it's not really happening. |
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But then again, Walker can hit a bull's-eye, piercing the surreal heart of dailiness amid devastation. |
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It began as a feeling of validation that became increasingly surreal. |
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A slow, surreal tide of deformation has appeared throughout the city. |
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Now Lanark, Alasdair Gray's epic tale of life in Glasgow and its surreal alter-ego Unthank has been brought to the stage. |
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The deeper I sank, the louder the underwater collage of found sound became, dragging me deeper into NWW's dark and surreal world. |
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Here are just a few of their surreal and colourful shows that have been tickling our funny bones. |
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For all the didge playing and the folk singing and the rather surreal Polynesian hip-hop, what the crowd really wanted to hear was your man. |
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The party scenes are lit in surreal neons, almost like a gaspar Noe film. |
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I've tried out various dating methods to find a bloke but none as surreal as my Shhh Silent Dating night. |
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After a lot of research I created sort of a surreal impression of what Mithra looked like. |
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Altitude sickness, or soroche, is a constant threat, but we are lucky and leave this surreal, unforgettable place intact. |
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The artists are no stranger to the whimsical and the surreal. |
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That must be surreal to hear those things from big celebrities. |
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The brand is underwritten by a design philosophy that is both surreal and contemporarily chic. |
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No stranger to 5-star reviews, either, Foot's brand of comedy has been described as inspired, surreal and incomprehensively funny. |
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Adventurous readers might try Robert Kroetsch's novel The Studhorse Man, a surreal picture of Western Canadian spirit. |
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You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings. |
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Johnson's designing stays clear of straight edges and angular forms, its inspired by biomorphism and brought alive through surreal lighting effects. |
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I can't even begin to describe how incredible the feeling of being a part of the surreal scene was, with scores of swashbuckling, sailfishes preying hard on the sardines. |
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The surreal movie stars Denis Lavant as Monsieur Oscar who changes into numerous costumes and latex masks to adopt the guise of some strange characters. |
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The images are surreal and haunting, created through the time-consuming technique of aquatinting, and are often reminiscent of a Chagall or Munch painting. |
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He invented a new system of numbers, the surreal numbers, which are closely related to certain games and have been the subject of a mathematical novel by Donald Knuth. |
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As its imagery becomes more surreal and mystically abstract, Mr. Glass's ethereal electronic score, which suggests a Himalyan music of the spheres, gathers force and energy. |
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As well as Wirral's adventures in Tropic Island Hum,it features the Bafta award-winningRupert and The Frog Song and Tuesday, a surreal story of an invasion of flying frogs. |
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Wonderfully sustained surreal fun as agoraphobic Bull recalls his bizarre Euro road trip with eccentric best pal Bunny and the Spanish waitress they picked up in Poland. |
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Sass compared madness, specifically schizophrenia, and modernism in a less fascist manner by noting their shared disjunctive narratives, surreal images, and incoherence. |
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Other tempera artists, such as Robert Vickrey, regularly depict Surreal imagery. |
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The hot-fast team of improvisers reacts to audience suggestions at lightening speed, to create surreal sketches, glorious games and manic musicals. |
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So even though the sonograms are beautiful and her family has been shopping, it's still surreal and will be until there's a human being there, the 'Cloud Atlas' star asserted. |
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It can be read as a surreal adventure story, moving forward with the style and pace of a computer game, where the characters have to outwit ensnarement by Miss Mople. |
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It's a shriekingly surreal series of vignettes that's almost entirely unwatchable now regardless of how many nefarious substances you've managed to imbibe. |
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I don't believe it is just my proximity to this case that makes it the most compelling of the dozens of surreal doozies cited in Against Judicial Activism. |
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