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oneiric

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o·nei·ric  (-nrk)
adj.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams.

[Greek oneiros, dream + -ic.]

oneiric [əʊˈnaɪərɪk]
adj
of or relating to dreams
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Adj.1.oneiric - of or relating to or suggestive of dreams


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Considering that Anna is but briefly more than a person observed from a distance, the lack of any other significant characters and its emphasis on the night, gives the film an oneiric quality.
There are hints throughout the book that those careers are not so much actual as oneiric, or at best aspirational.
The gallery's two separate spaces were secretly linked by this absent filmic narrative, which lent coherence and atmosphere to what was conceived not as the gallery remake of Furtivo but as its oneiric continuation--the "epanchement du songe dans la vie reelle" (overflow of the dream into real life), as the Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval put it.
 
 
 
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