Word: surrealness
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...really is overtaken by nature. It's topped with a 2.5-acre (1 hectare) field of native California plants, a "green roof" that aids in heating and cooling efficiency. The roof comes with its own topography of seven grassy humps, including two perforated by circular skylights. It's a surreal terrain, full of dreamlike, fertile swells. If Antoni Gaudí had been a hobbit, he might have designed something just like...
...said she has no regrets about the accident. “You’re surrounded by team U.S.A., and you go down the ramp to the floor of the national stadium which has 90,000 screaming fans,” Kolbe said. “It was pretty surreal experience. That’s when it hit me.” BEIJING-BOUND Every four years, the Paralympics follow on the heels of the Olympics. Elite athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village...
...said she has no regrets about the accident. “You’re surrounded by team U.S.A., and you go down the ramp to the floor of the national stadium which has 90,000 screaming fans,” Kolbe said. “It was pretty surreal experience. That’s when it hit me.” BEIJING-BOUND Every four years, the Paralympics follow on the heels of the Olympics. Elite athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village...
Olmert's last official cabinet meeting on Sunday had a touch of the surreal: at first the Premier chatted about Wall Street's woes and Israel's basketball win over the Czech team before announcing offhandedly that he was resigning. Several hours later he dropped his resignation letter off at the President's residence. The normally loquacious Olmert summed up his resignation in two sentences. Peres later said, "I respect the dignified manner in which [Olmert] is transferring authority...
...ultra-exclusive ranks by invitation only. At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned luxury hotel. It was on board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated quality to the evening," says Worth, who went on to become a consultant and speechwriter for several heads of state. "I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory - Churchill was a bit of a lush, so they were quotes about drinking - and he was very funny. A few people...