nonrealistic

He thought there was more truth in the nonrealistic forms.

In opera, the distinctions between realistic and nonrealistic characters are erased.

But this was a game of life and death waged in both realistic and nonrealistic ways.

Nonetheless, he plays with formal elements in his own way, making dance only one component of a nonrealistic total theater.

Rather, it depicts concepts of appetite, fullness or anger in nonrealistic form.

Often in a nonrealistic color like pink, it belied its sheepskin origin.

Yet this was essentially a nonrealistic work.

It had been her idea to reuse some old wooden boxes as a simple, nonrealistic set for Stop the World.

For all their nonrealistic essence, Bali's dances are subtle expressions of mood and movement.

Shunga couples are often shown in nonrealistic positions with exaggerated genitalia.

The feature lets parents control the level of violence on a scale ranging from realistic to nonrealistic, containing blood or bloodless.

They are based on merciless character observation and could be described as hypernaturalistic, though some employ nonrealistic conventions.

But Mr. Aschengreen indicated that its nonrealistic scenery had surprised audiences.

With "Les Maries," Cocteau proclaimed his belief in nonrealistic theater.

Now Adam Bock looks into man-shark romance in his new nonrealistic comedy about young urban types (1:30).

Bisecting the spare, nonrealistic set, first horizontally, then vertically, the director assigns each queen a different half of the theatrical kingdom.

In this case, it's meant to cap his not-yet-staged trilogy of more patently ferocious political works - all of them wildly nonrealistic.

Lugné-Poë "sought to create a unified nonrealistic theatre of poetry and dreams through atmospheric staging and stylized acting".

What we did try (and liked the results) were scenes that happen in the memory or imagination of a character, and other nonrealistic treatments of human experiences.

The dominant "middle browism" of the theater troubles him, the pervading influence of the popular, nonrealistic, distancing forms of movies and television.

These nonrealistic figures are the subjects of Mr. Duncan's first self-publishing effort, "A Secret Garden."

"I wanted our Harlem to be a very nonrealistic, magical place, an Illyria, where music in the air would make things happen," Mr. Epps said.

Eliot's preface to his mother's Savonarola is a defence of nonrealistic drama of the sort that Sweeney Agonistes embodied.

"Your old memories are in my archives back at Rhada-manthus Mansion, in the chamber of memory, in third level of mentality, the deep-layer nonrealistic dreamscape."

As solutions to narrative problems, the arch, nonrealistic touches as written - and as staged with enthusiasm by Hayley Finn - wax cute and earnest.