cloud-cuckoo-lands

noun

plural of cloud-cuckoo-land
as in cloudlands

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  1. utopias
  2. nightmares
  3. fictions
Noun
  • Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Jäger compares the sounds of techno to the noise of Detroit’s industrial machinery—the music that drove the ersatz utopias of the late twentieth century is, in other words, merely a synthetic echo of a far more vital past.
    — Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of utopias
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  • In the 1980s a woman and her daughter began having nightmares about a long-haired woman in a long dress struggling to rise from the bottom of a lake.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Others incorporate unique themes, play on nightmares and stir up clinical cases of the heebie-jeebies.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of nightmares
Noun
  • This multiversal collapse not only erodes the walls dividing fictions but also reconfigures the interface between fiction and reality.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Over time, writers offered up fictions to fill in the gaps of the story.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of fictions
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