Meaning of surrealness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being surreal.

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Examples

“The candidates were undoubtedly prepped about Butte’s economic history (raucous copper-mining town in its heyday, union town, company town, Democratic stronghold), its demographics (white, blue-collar, Catholic, lots of Irish), its decline⟳ (drastic population loss, abandoned mines, Superfund site, the Power debacle), the faint sparks of economic hope⟳ (a windmill turbine plant⟳, an influx of artists and environmental cleanup folks), its surrealness (that 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary, looking down from a mountaintop at a denuded landscape dotted with mine mainframes and an abandoned open-pit mine the size of a small county!)”

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