Sentences with phrase «like hallucinatory»

The film plays like a hallucinatory dream tour of the Los Angeles fashion world.

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These were usually texts of Scripture which, sometimes damnatory and sometimes favorable, would come in a half - hallucinatory form as if they were voices, and fasten on his mind and buffet it between them like a shuttlecock.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

The blooms of this type of mistletoe look like great clusters of brilliant orange grapes and can seem hallucinatory in the summer heat.

There are a couple of hallucinatory sequences that don't quite work, and the score by Paul Mills comes swooping in, insistent upon being inspirational in a way that feels like unnecessary underlining.

In 2018, deep into the era of the «cinematic universe» and series like Westworld, whose very structure begs to be diagrammed, Annihilation's hallucinatory haziness feels bracingly out of step with the direction expansive sci - fi has been taking.

There are moments here that arrest you with their hallucinatory power, like a gay - club rave that becomes the shimmery dance number of Marina's dreams, or a stylized tracking shot in which she confronts an overpowering and highly metaphorical wind.

Wormwood is assembled as a hallucinatory, psychologically penetrating collage and plays like a pulse - pounding thriller, a damning indictment of institutional malfeasance, and a chilling portrait of both self - destructive obsession and the elusiveness of truth.

Flanagan, known for more overt horror concoctions like Ouija 2, matches the physical agony of Jessie pushed through the razor - edged constraints to fetch a few drips of water with hallucinatory flashbacks that shades the woman's sexual identity (and subverts Gugino's objectified career).

Rather than the hallucinatory dreaminess Lynch injects into films like Blue Velvet (the most similar), this film is ruled by the ferociously logical illogic of childhood.

Like Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, this psychological thriller plumbs the violence of the mind with hallucinatory brilliance.

Creating a film that is highly sensory, they have placed Eva somewhere between her memories and the present - day, giving the film a hallucinatory, dream - like quality.

At its best, the film has some of the hallucinatory power that gives the play an eternal aura of mystery, like Nicolas Winding Refn's psychotic Viking epic Valhalla Rising, but with words.

But then the film gets increasingly baleful, and indeed hallucinatory, as the violence turns crueler: one character is tortured while being simultaneously dismantled and dangled in mid-air, another is menaced with needle - like spikes of light.

Several individual rooms (like the Rusalka lairs, the body mounds, the repair drone repository, the hallucinatory world, the bit with the wheelchair, the Breach elevator) are quite impressive, but unfortunately the rest of the game falls well below that standard and it is kind of a bummer.

Like much of his recent work, the show references the hallucinatory sensation described in Author Rimbaud's prose poem...

These sometimes become hallucinatory videos (like Hallucinating Love that was screened on Yama in December 2006), hand printed fabrics, wall paintings and expand to installations and structures in which material and lines come together.

The show was like going into my mind, like creating a whole environment — a kind of hallucinatory effect.

An umbrella - like chandelier of fluorescent tubes trailing a tangle of wire tendrils, suggesting a maypole imagined by a hallucinatory Dan Flavin, is reflected here in the shiny black surface of an enormous tiled wall that has crumpled like a wad of paper (actually its starting point), frozen in midcollapse like a petrified lava flow.

Peter Doig's paintings capture moments of the everyday with a dream - like tranquility altered through the use of staining, dripping, stippling, and a vibrant range of electric, almost hallucinatory, colors.

We have featured Kuksi in the magazine in past years, but this particular show, Hallucinatory Enhancements, looks like his most bold showing to date.

When Vaughn's fearless chromaticism works its magic, often in a left - to - right rhythm that shimmies like the surface of the water, the hallucinatory effect is irresistible.

Siebren Versteeg and Joe Grimm are like neuro scientists.They carefully manipulate dials and press buttons to examine how those produce different effects on the human body, effects that are often hallucinatory.

«A Few Moments,» a hallucinatory, semiabstract composition of bulging eyes, flowers, sky and various unidentifiable elements, makes Jonah's adventure seem like a metaphor about a kind of mind - altering, soul - transforming experience.

«As I find it now, the suburban experience is dream - like and hallucinatory.

Like many of his paintings from this period, it began with an image cut from a magazine and reconfigured into a hallucinatory new form.

The hallucinatory - like and immersive installation exhibition, «Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife» is on view at MoMA PS1 through August 31, 2015.

With his passion for engraving, the artist found inspiration in Edward Munch's woodcuts for a new series of hallucinatory prints put together like puzzles.

In each of these, two hallucinatory eyes emerge from a dazzling patterned background, like spectral faces from murky depths.

A shimmering sense of otherness still characterises the work but that is often to do with the hallucinatory harshness of the Caribbean sunlight or the sudden equatorial onset of nightfall, which, he says, still sounding amazed, «drops like a black curtain on the place, altering the atmosphere».

Yet, they unfold, collage and coalesce to reveal the dream - like and hallucinatory experience of suburbia from the artist's point of view.

In company with painters like the unsuppressable Salvador Dali (1904 - 89), the versatile Joan Miro (1893 - 1983), and the innovative Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), Tanguy's art exemplifies the fundamental illogicality and hallucinatory nature of pure surrealism.

In the almost hallucinatory early light, a fishing boat outfitted with a hoist and black - suited divers brought up a sunken bronze vitrine / sculpture, which contained reliquary - like drawings made by Barney and Peyton.