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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
To work, any adaptation of Herbert’s book has to capture the violence, moral ambiguity, and human drama of its far-future world without losing the spectacle or hallucinatory weirdness.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
This is a searing drama with an abundance of style and hallucinatory visual splendor, but one in which every choice feels deliberate and meaningful, too.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
While sniffing legal products for their temporary hallucinatory effects is not new for young people, chroming is currently gaining traction on social media platforms like TikTok.
—Korin Miller, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
The film weaves together O’Connor’s life and the visualizations of her unsettling, hallucinatory stories, populated with grotesque, cruel and disfigured characters.
—Giovanni Bogani, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
This is a searing drama with an abundance of style and hallucinatory visual splendor, but one in which every choice feels deliberate and meaningful, too.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
While sniffing legal products for their temporary hallucinatory effects is not new for young people, chroming is currently gaining traction on social media platforms like TikTok.
—Korin Miller, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
The film weaves together O’Connor’s life and the visualizations of her unsettling, hallucinatory stories, populated with grotesque, cruel and disfigured characters.
—Giovanni Bogani, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
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Meanwhile, Buck continues to struggle with Tommy’s revelation, leading to the episode’s most surreal scene.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Donna has said it's been surreal getting to know Swift.Julie Mazziotta, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.WSJ, WSJ, 5 July 2022
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And the exasperation goes from imaginary frustration to real annoyance.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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And through her mesmerizing filmmaking, Kapadia creates a world that didn’t seem possible — which, of course, reinforces how imaginary this new place might prove to be.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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Everyone read a fictitious story about a school that was running out of water because its local aquifer was drying up.Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
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To Kaplan, the onscreen romantic chemistry between the two fictitious lead characters, rival booksellers Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, drew her attention.David Chiu, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Set in the fictional town of Salem, Illionois, Days of Our Lives follows the lives of several families including the Bradys, the Hortons, the Carvers, the DiMeras and the Kiriakises.Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Plus, this isn't that much of a political fantasy: There's no way both the president and the vice president could be women, even in this fictional world.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Doing so risks indulging the chimerical hope that once liberal democracy has spread throughout the world, strategic competition will end and the United States can peacefully collaborate with like-minded states in a secure globe.Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2020
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But deceptive narrative and form are not what wreaked havoc on Catherine’s life.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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See Arizona election results | Live coverage on Election Day Labor activists, on the other hand, have called the measure a deceptive sham.Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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