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- adjective Of or pertaining to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) or his writings, most notably a type of
imaginative fantasy involving humorous plays on words and logic.
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Examples
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It's more "Carrollian," after Alice in Wonderland.
Body Armor? But You're POOR People ... Rogers 2006
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The "Wise Words," as the following extracts show, have the true "Carrollian" ring about them: --
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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Some of the imagery is rather grotesque, and the need to give non-Carrollian bizarre names to everything was creativity run amok.
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But the business of her becoming engaged at the beginning in a Carrollian-absurd-way?
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But the business of her becoming engaged at the beginning in a Carrollian-absurd-way?
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But this heartfelt and anguished novel's leap into the supernatural it comes late and abruptly, on page 185 knocks its emotional center from the realm of indissoluble cause and effect into a slumgullion of Carrollian metaphysics that goes nowhere.
After Silence by Jonathan Carroll Gregory Feeley 2009
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But this heartfelt and anguished novel's leap into the supernatural it comes late and abruptly, on page 185 knocks its emotional center from the realm of indissoluble cause and effect into a slumgullion of Carrollian metaphysics that goes nowhere.
Archive 2009-08-01 Gregory Feeley 2009
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It's true that precedent, once installed in Hollywood union agreements, is hard to dislodge, but it still seems illogical -- in a sort of Carrollian "verdict first, trial afterward" fashion -- to strike over issues as incremental and, to date, speculative, as these.
Jonathan Handel: SAG Apparently Seeking Strike Authorization 2008
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I was very impressed by how Peter used Carrollian structures and motifs as he composed the music for this opera.
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I was very impressed by how Peter used Carrollian structures and motifs as he composed the music for this opera.
The Ambassador, the Poet, the Composer, and the Illustrator « educating alice 2008
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