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Example sentences for: dreamlike
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These pictures--including one depicting a party held, incongruously, in one of the Town Hall chambers--have a dreamlike aura.
When we imagine the life of the poet laureate, we see--through a dreamlike fog of sherry--a berobed figure lounging on a waterlily, floating gently through an Arcadian landscape, quill pen in hand but used more as a prop than for the actual production of poetry.
The children bring home the social diseases of the day--sex and drugs, mainly--and the parents dispel them with the dreamlike reasonableness of a ministerial counseling session.
Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)
His "Bottom's Dream" speech is a joyous discovery of the dreamlike essence of life--a truth unglimpsed by any of the play's other characters.
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