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somnambulistic - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective somnambulist .
Etymologies
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From somnambulist + -ic .
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Her clothing was a loose flowing drapery, which fell from her shoulders to her heels, while instead of agility of motion or sprightliness there was nothing but a dreamy gliding, a kind of somnambulistic movement, apparently without plan or purpose, but not without a certain grace.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various
It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions.
This week's new exhibitions 2011
The main subject of the narrative is a journey through a somnambulistic world by the son, Jozef, to visit his purportedly dying Father in a Sanatorium.
Celebrated Animators The Quay Brothers Return with a New Feature | /Film 2010
This has all been taking place in front of an apathetic, even somnambulistic , Canadian public.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists.
The Somnambulists 2010
-- Henry states his philosophy of life and art for the three or four somnambulistic listeners that must be out there somewhere:
Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Punching the Clown Joseph Smigelski 2010
This has all been taking place in front of an apathetic, even somnambulistic , Canadian public.
An infandous Ottawa Cromwell 2009
-- Henry states his philosophy of life and art for the three or four somnambulistic listeners that must be out there somewhere:
Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Punching the Clown Joseph Smigelski 2010
The prizefighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
The Somnambulists 2010
We're bombarded with boorish cell phoners, disengaged and seemingly somnambulistic texters who walk in the middle of traffic Tweeting.
Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet 2010
evenstar commented on the word somnambulistic
We've been too long American dreaming
I think we've lost the heart
Folorn, somnambulistic, maniacal in the dark...
- Dead Can Dance
February 17, 2009