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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
This violent event flashes onstage in the manner of a traumatic memory, with Goodman’s Jesse writhing on Justin Huen’s impressionistic urban set as lighting and sound designer Matt Richter underscores the hallucinatory nature of the assault with strobe effects.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
There are private planes and limos and cocaine and fireworks and dancing and morning-after IV drips; Baker charges through these scenes in an almost hallucinatory frenzy, sweeping us along the way that Ani herself has been swept along.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The people who have been to one of these Bowery Ballroom shows talk about it in even more surreal, almost hallucinatory terms.
—Nick Robins-Early, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Certainly, the eccentric characters and bizarre situations in his novels reflect a hallucinatory vision.
—Tom Vitale, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
There are private planes and limos and cocaine and fireworks and dancing and morning-after IV drips; Baker charges through these scenes in an almost hallucinatory frenzy, sweeping us along the way that Ani herself has been swept along.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The people who have been to one of these Bowery Ballroom shows talk about it in even more surreal, almost hallucinatory terms.
—Nick Robins-Early, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Certainly, the eccentric characters and bizarre situations in his novels reflect a hallucinatory vision.
—Tom Vitale, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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The note kicked off a surreal, contentious exchange between Williams and Grenell, which the former shared screenshots of on Instagram.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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There followed a surreal half-time chat between Chapman and Poyet about his dismissal, with the game relegated to a sideshow, as fellow pundit Efan Ekoku shifted awkwardly in his seat.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Trump, in this view, inherited an economy in which a seemingly healthy job market is, in fact, illusory.—
Neil Irwin,
Axios,
9 Mar. 2025
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And cost savings has been illusory.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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The Emmy Award-winner plays the Black woman stand-in for a white male protagonist in an imaginary story to repurpose the popularity of a once successful Keyworth Pictures’ franchise.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Perception Of Threat: In situations of aggression, whether real or imaginary, a natural response is to fight back.—
Naira Velumyan,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Amid the audience laughter at a lecture, U.S. Navy oceanographer Robert Ballard bit his tongue and told the questioner the jewelry was fictitious.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Searches were carried out in France and Belgium last month to determine if his Belgian tax domicile was fictitious.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bad Summer People, which has drawn comparisons to The White Lotus, is set in the idyllic fictional town of Salcombe, Fire Island, and follows a sequence of life shattering events when a body is discovered off the side of the boardwalk.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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Nowhere is this attention to detail more felt than in the production design of the studio itself, which is intended to emulate great legacy companies like Paramount and Warner Bros., the latter of which stands in for the series’ fictional Continental Studios in exterior scenes.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Kilgore, his dream of fame approaching, also sees its chimerical agonies.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Battering ram with deceptive speed (4.51), but struggles catching the ball.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Key attributes: Explosive speed, deceptive footwork for separation.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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