How to Use oneiric in a Sentence

oneiric

adjective
Definition of oneiricnext
  • Chairs, beds, and bell jars seem to float just in front of the frames, the ghostly 3-D effect rendering her oneiric assemblages more nightmarish than usual.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The resulting cinematic dreamscape feels suitably oneiric (a word that pops up in the movie itself), if also more than a little onanistic.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • But her oneiric film, lensed by Anton Gromov, is not exactly a comment on the current situation in Europe.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Inside are pillowy white segments, oneiric in texture and taste, with notes of pineapple, strawberry, lychee and your most carefree memory of childhood.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Somewhere along the twisty path of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov, our brilliant dreamer-in-chief, came into contact with Dunne’s theories of oneiric prophecy and was evidently inspired by them.
    — Nicholson Baker, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But the series’ greatest drawback is a holdover from the comics themselves — their epic scale unable to be fully conveyed by the narrative itinerancy and the oneiric, plot-dependent logic governing these universes.
    — Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Fans of Haruki Murakami’s melancholy, oneiric tales will also delight in Lim’s assault upon consensus reality.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Through perspectival shifts, pronominal slippage and shout-outs to cinema, poetry and of course music, Mercier allows the duo’s fears and displaced ambitions to turn into one another in revelatory, oneiric and, ultimately, disturbing ways.
    — Lisa Russ Spaar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • For most this association persisted because the medium was thought to be psychedelic or oneiric, fundamentally unearthly.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Fiction acquires the true, tangible qualities of a hallucination while reality becomes somehow an oneiric dimension.
    — Vogue, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Fiction acquires the true, tangible qualities of a hallucination while reality becomes somehow an oneiric dimension.
    — Vogue, 12 Sep. 2022

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