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In 1986, Lynch released his erotic mystery Blue Velvet, which further cemented his unique point-of-view with dark, surreal story-building.—
McKinley Franklin,
TVLine,
16 Jan. 2025 -
According to Pinterest, the basic premise of Butter Yellow is imaginative living that includes anything from a surreal modern yellow bubble vase to a doll-like swipe of yellow eye shadow.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
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Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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To me, the ending leaves as an open question whether Tóth has retreated to illusory safe ground or found a more hospitable home.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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Doing so could constitute a deceptive trade practice, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office or local district attorneys could then investigate to determine the cause of the price hike.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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The 81-page federal complaint charging Universal Music Group with defamation, harassment and payola (deceptive business practices) is a page-turner that seems penned more for press and public consumption (and perhaps label renegotiation) than judicial inspection.—
Bill Hochberg,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.—
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
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However, that didn’t stop the fictitious school district from announcing closings as the North Texas deals with freezing rain and snow.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Jan. 2025
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Much like the fictitious film, Moss’s relationship with his youngest child’s mother has been tumultuous.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.—
Ned Kleiner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Also lost were performance posters, a bust of Schoenberg and ephemera such as the fanciful playing card sets the composer designed.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Dress up dapper because moody Francis Hall is sophisticated, intimate and crafting fanciful sips. KILN Location: Hotel Heron: 699 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314 For Saturday dinner, visit KILN, which just so happens to be the ground-floor restaurant at the hotel.—
Kayleigh Ruller,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Daydreamlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamlike. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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