Word: surreal
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Wild guess: this was your first time working with Arnold. It was just so surreal to develop a relationship with him. I didn't know how to process him at first, because he's as iconic as one can possibly be. And he plays robots. Quite often. And very persuasively. So it was a bit jarring to realize that he was a guy, an actual human being...
...dorky, crudely drawn hero. His pal Strong Bad is a mysterious dude who brags a lot, wears a Mexican wrestler's mask and makes fun of Homestar. They and their friends act out spoofs, skits, adventures, music videos and fake ads, and just generally goof on their own surreal weirdness. It's like a postmodern version of the Peanuts gang. Or it's like a Saturday-morning cartoon by Salvador Dali. Or--look, it's too hard to explain. Just check it out. --By Lev Grossman
...It’s so surreal. It’s gone by so quickly,” Hagerman said. “I wish I could have it back and do it all over again, but I know I can’t. Every day I come down here it’s like magic playing with these people...
...lengthy peaks of the Sand Dunes near Stovepipe Wells, where desert winds have deposited grains of mountain quartz in a beach-like expanse that covers 15 sq. mi. Or you can visit Devil's Golf Course, where wind and rain have shaped the silt of ancient saltwater lakes into surreal crystallized salt pinnacles. And there's no place better to observe the tectonic forces that shaped Death Valley than at Badwater, the lowest place in the valley (and on the continent), where a salt-and-silt bog hundreds of feet below sea level rises abruptly to 11,049-ft. Telescope...
...confidence of the majority of the members and discredited this body." There's no doubt that the Convention's task is real - and urgent. To prevent gridlock, the E.U. must streamline its decision-making processes to accommodate the addition of 10 new members. But there's also something surreal about last week's deliberations. Giscard's call for an E.U. Foreign Minister, for example, seems optimistic at best in light of the rancorous splits about the war in Iraq. The Convention has important work to do, but it seems its head is still in the clouds...