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. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- Henry states his philosophy of life and art for the three or four somnambulistic listeners that must be out there somewhere: ❋ Joseph Smigelski (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This has all been taking place in front of an apathetic, even somnambulistic, Canadian public. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Admittedly, I'm white, middle class, and spend most of my time in the suburbs built expressly for our somnambulistic shuffle between employment, retail, and respectable housing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As his eyes swept the street, the door of the darkened bicycle shop next door creaked slowly open, and a somnambulistic figure, as evocative as a silhouette in a period cinema, joined him on the rue Quelle Blague. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We're bombarded with boorish cell phoners, disengaged and seemingly somnambulistic texters who walk in the middle of traffic Tweeting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In keeping with wolfish tradition, it's an agonizing process, which may account for the creature's ill temper upon becoming fully lupine: He doesn't kill to feed any need besides bloodlust, and his eviscerations are graphic, grotesque and largely unnecessary — although when Mr. Del Toro is seen chowing down on some villager's liver, it may be intended as an homage to his somnambulistic co-star Mr. Hopkins (hold the fava beans). ❋ John Anderson (2010)
This contributes to the somnambulistic air of the story, but it also makes the protagonist into Generic Salaryman, a stand-in for all the company men of his generation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But so somnambulistic are the American people that they still might look to the system and to its usurpers even in the teeth of a significant economic downturn. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So unwaveringly focused is Under Our Skin on human suffering that it only intermittently rises above the worth of pure information; the film intends to elicit empathy via a series of paralleling biographies illustrating various patients' battles with the disease, but instead - perhaps expecting audience callousness - achieves overkill the incessantly somnambulistic score alone trumps the sorrow on display with trite, arty manipulation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I have an appearance of outward calm that is almost somnambulistic, but my insides are a haphazardly stuffed cavern of poorly processed anxieties. ❋ Unknown (2009)
