"His work has a surreal edge," Mr. Lichtenstein said.

Stylistically, "Heathers" has a surreal edge and the kind of irreverence that makes everything - even a serious problem like teen-age suicide - a subject for satire.

This is an example of the surreal edge of Marx Brothers humor.

Almost every shot is drenched in rich period detail so acute it has a surreal edge.

It added a surreal edge to my fantasies and made food a rich sensual pleasure.

There is a surreal edge to the sound choices we make, which is simply saying, "This is a little bit weirder than you imagined, so you have to follow me."

Since Pofalici was an especially "mixed" neighborhood of middle-class Serb, Croat and Muslim families, the fighting took on a particularly surreal edge.

The inspirational godfathers of this year's anthology seem to be Marcel Duchamp and David Lynch rather than Disney, for the best of the films have a dark, surreal edge.

But that series has an oddly surreal edge that begins with its premise: it is about two brothers, both named Pete.