Example sentences for: dreamlike

How can you use “dreamlike” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The breakdown occasions a jigsaw of memories: of an upstate New York boyhood dominated by a local-hero dad; of doomed attempts to make it in the straight world of Manhattan advertising; of romantic humiliations at the hands of perky centerfold blondes; and, finally, of dreamlike interludes in sadistic mental hospitals.

  • 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.)

  • He made a triumphant return to painting, completing the dreamlike Swan Upping at Cookham (1915-1919).


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