They photographed his oneiric head against a Baroque ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Painter Tourist] Reference
And sometimes the oneiric, the obscure, is the only way to feel transported. From Wordnik.com. [Panel 3: Clarity & Obscurity: The Uses and Misuses : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Mimesis of the oneiric + mimesis of the text = mimesis of the story = mimesis of diegesis. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Margaret Robertson on Halo's oneiric call to adventure: Halo is a place where I feel peaceful. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The moving image is so slippery that spillover between the oneiric and the naturistic is inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Image and Its] Reference
“For me, that album must have been, more than a material object, a receptacle of oneiric images.”. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
At night I had vividly-colored dreams — my oneiric life was bright, well-sighted, visionary in the truest sense. From Wordnik.com. [The light that draws the flower] Reference
He soars and sinks in an intellectual vertigo, because the guiding prin-ciple here is at once oneiric and whimsical. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Novemberland] Reference
“Her gown clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves, and the entire shapely length of her legs.” oneiric. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
But the only thing that will end this oneiric sequence of being shut in and forced out, is the end of the immigration restrictions for Cubans. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: The Coca-Cola of Forgetting or The Cane Juice of Nostalgia] Reference
Wieseltier often employs bafflingly obscurantist, elliptical, oneiric swirls of thought meant to wow his readers with his putative Kant-like gifts. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan] Reference
The snout of desire is clearly Freudian and harkens perhaps to pre-birth experiences …. or may be alternately interpreted as a spontaneous oneiric image. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – I’m not seeing it] Reference
Why Aren't We Crying? is particularly notable not only for its fiction editors' commitment to the oneiric and odd, but for the poetry published with the fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Small Press Roundup -- Now with 100% More Batshit!] Reference
Full blown mimesis of the oneiric where nigh on every word is a sutura in and of itself, and unconsciousness is understood as an ocean of diegesis built out of mimesis. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Pataphysical quirks such as these often invite a reading of the narrative as oneiric, the discontinuities modeled on those of dreams, the whole narrative as a representation of a dream even. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
The Ghost's chassis stiffness — the source of its fantastic ride quality, dynamic competence and hushed, oneiric quiet — is all the more remarkable considering the four enormous holes in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%] Reference
Praise for Mark Chadbourn: A contemporary bard, a post-industrial Taliesin whose visionary novels are crammed with remixed mythologies, oneiric set-pieces, potent symbols, unsettling imagery and an engaging fusion of genre elements. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasy Author Signs Six Book Deal with Pyr] Reference
Last night I went to see the oneiric blockbuster Inception. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
I appreciate films where that oneiric conundrum is massaged. From Wordnik.com. [Twitch] Reference
Maybe the hive knows? the Spaceman? or just a boondoggling oneiric legacy. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
In "Speak Memory," Nabokov tells about his own visual and auditory semi-oneiric phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
And I don't mean to M. Knight twist the film, but I felt like the film's oneiric traits certainly implied this to a certain extent. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I go knocking on Google's door at godawful hours, asking for the exact height of Mt. Kilimanjaro or the meaning of the word "oneiric.". From Wordnik.com. [PNJ - News] Reference
Sara Fanelli, an Italian artist based in London, has created an oneiric collage-world in children's books such as It's Dreamtime (1999). From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Events unfold within the confines of the sprawling house and when they spill outdoors they unfurl in highly atmospheric, misty and downright oneiric sets. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
The Unconsoled is, in part, a pastiche of Kafka, and what Ishiguro borrows from Kafka above all else is his oneiric geography, at once bizarre and strangely familiar. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
Ranging from bloody crime scenes to banal exteriors, his tonal graphite pieces maintain an aloof photojournalistic style, but some have evolved to incorporate floating elements that suggest an oneiric state. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
This "incoherence" is of a particular type; it isn't simply a failure of coherence so much as the generation of an oneiric (in) consistency which doesn't add up (into a final resolution) but which doesn't fragment into nonsense either. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
I’m most likely to succeed with oneiric and callipygian I think. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
Pinzón’s writing shares with Roth’s a somewhat oneiric, disquieting glimpse into the immigrant child’s elaboration of reality in his or her new land. From Wordnik.com. [Mimi Pinz��n.] Reference
Mimesis of the oneiric. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
"l-o-w" of oneiric audition to the exclamatory and forcefully open-mouthed "Lo!. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Together they form an oneiric tapestry of incandescent imaginary lives given meaning by dreams and movies. ". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Update: "Omirbaev's distilled aesthetic - oneiric sequences that equally allude to internal conflict and creative impulse, disembodied framing of hands and feet that evoke. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Here the oneiric form of. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
That oneiric season. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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