Adjective complement with noun phrase

• seem: Plus if you sniffed it enough the car ride home seemed a lot more surreal.

Modifying Another Word

• brilliantly: Julian Barrat and Noel Fielding star in this brilliantly surreal comedy of shamans, monkeys and demon nannies summoned from hell.

• slightly: Just played a slightly surreal gig at 5:30pm at the Cardiff Barfly.

• wonderfully: Everything is set on an absurd, mythical level that at times becomes wonderfully surreal.

• somewhat: A rich man's invention, nothing can prepare you for the somewhat surreal qualities of parts of this area.

• almost: We were given an event which was almost surreal in its horror level.

• rather: However, today I woke up unaided, in the middle of a rather surreal dream.

Infinitive complement

• see: Really surreal to see that the actors have turned out just as Ju, Dick and Anne probably would have!

Modifies a noun

• humor: This musical piece is peppered with surreal humor derived from teenage angst.

• imagery: My intellect and reasoning could not and would not accept the surreal imagery of the situation.

• comedy: In a nutshell, the man with no name meets the boy with soiled sheets who harbors a pathological hatred for surreal comedy.

• fantasy: Having completed a couple of 16mm shorts, Barry decided to bring his surreal fantasy to screen in 1972.

• spectacle: The clash of cultures, impoverished means and surreal spectacle of this area can be found traced through the company's work.

• lyric: It's not that there's one surreal, unrhymed lyric, they all are.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seemed surreal; in fact everything seemed surreal.

• feel: It feels surreal here, a little like a film set, or maybe the surface of the moon.

• become: Everything is set on an absurd, mythical level that at times becomes wonderfully surreal.

• look: Whatever, the knickers make them look slightly surreal.

• get: Meanwhile, things are getting surreal with Mark Higgs.

• sound: It sounds surreal, but I had a real breakdown about saying goodbye to her.