Suddenly his boots slid out from under him and he tumbled, in dreamlike slow motion, face forward.

"We go on," he says in this section, "with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it."

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal-the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

Everything seemed to happen in dreamlike slow motion.

Everything happened in dreamlike slow motion, and when it was done it looked like the round socket room had suddenly gained an ill-fitting black roof.

They are exhausted from their labors, as they plod up a hill in dreamlike motion.

She still looked straight ahead, and in a dreamlike slow motion finished her effort with, ". . . drugs."

This combination of technical wizardry and compelling human narrative received high praise from critics, who also cited the play's humor, realism, and dreamlike motion as a fitting tribute to Murakami's prose.

Chapter Eleven 4:00 p.m. Electrochemical neutral responses diminished, body slowed to a dreamlike slow motion, the alligator moved among the tunnels deep below the Bowery.

Kirk surged forward, trapped in dreamlike slow motion, as if the air had thickened, as if the kitchen expanded to stretch the distance between her and him.