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  • The movies blend and combine a multitude of varied images from our popular culture into personal dream-like narratives that animate and transport the viewer into unexpected realms.

    John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New John Seed 2010

  • The redemptive act in a sometimes craven match was dream-like.

    Barcelona's Lionel Messi powers into the pantheon of greats | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Smudges of colored ink and poster color suggest trees and light with a dream-like quality.

    Following the Tagore Trail Amy Yee 2011

  • The movies blend and combine a multitude of varied images from our popular culture into personal dream-like narratives that animate and transport the viewer into unexpected realms.

    John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New John Seed 2010

  • When the strings kick in and Eddie Kendricks declares "every night on my knees I pray" it sounds like the celestial choir, and the dream-like feeling of the song is underlined in the pay-off line – "but in reality, she doesn't even know me".

    Family life 2011

  • Mr. Tranströmer's beautiful, dream-like poems feel like Sweden: sparse and cold.

    Poetry Defeats Politics Michael Moynihan 2011

  • Chan, who was already in his 60s, began producing oil and ink works of a kind Hong Kong's art establishment had never seen: dream-like works showing boldly colored human and animal figures in a fantasy universe.

    For 2011, Art HK Grows Up and Goes Local Alexandra A. Seno 2011

  • Yet the scenery is hectic, full of weird visual clashes, testament to a dream-like chaos in ordinary situations.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • But its little-seen precursor, "Impolex," is more emphatic: The 75-minute film is a dream-like homage to Thomas Pynchon 's gargantuan 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow."

    Up on the Roof and Courting a Prince of New York Steve Dollar 2011

  • The movies blend and combine a multitude of varied images from our popular culture into personal dream-like narratives that animate and transport the viewer into unexpected realms.

    John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New John Seed 2010

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