Word: somnambulistic
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...world Joyce wrote about was, on the surface, the city of Dublin, where he had lived until, at 22, he forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...
...English somnambulist once killed and carved up his wife while asleep...
Papa's Boys by Day. Says Colonel Sandier: "The personality structure of the somnambulist is that of the overprotected, babied adult. . . . Somnambulism, in its essence, represents to the sleepwalker an attempt to escape from threatening dangers...
Then a slight warm wind arose. In four hours the ice was gone. There were no major catastrophies, no fires of consequence, no deaths. Amarillo stirred like a somnambulist awakening, estimated its damages in the millions. Four days passed before telephone and telegraph communications made Amarillo once again part of the outside world...
...Night," Dali showed in another window a mannequin lying on a bed of glowing coals under a stuffed trophy, which the artist described as "the decapitated head and the savage hoofs of a great somnambulist buffalo extenuated by a thousand years of sleep." Working all one night with Bonwit's regular window crew, Surrealissimo Dali finished in time for the store's opening at 9:30 a. m. Then he retired to his hotel...