With the shrine's golden dome as a backdrop, the street had a surreal beauty, and soldiers said they were astonished to be fighting so close to one of the holiest sites in Islam.

It has a surreal beauty, this scene, with the pale bodies of the frogs leaping clear of the low mist, like salmon fighting their way upriver to a primordial spawning ground.

Wind rustled the forest around me, and silver moonlight, brighter than I would have thought possible, gave everything an eerie, surreal beauty.

However, by a simple trick they can be colored, and transformed into objects of amazing, even surreal, beauty.

Come here to encounter the sometimes surreal natural beauty: carpets of rainy-season wildflowers, spectacular thunderstorms and wide sweeps of cerulean sky.

It was this surreal beauty that drew Diane Walton out of bed before the sun had even lighted the sky.

In some places, the stark, blackened landscape has a kind of surreal beauty.

As ubiquitous and natural as racial difference is the startlingly surreal beauty and desolation of the Australian landscape.

A steady rain and the surreal, torch-lit natural beauty of the surroundings combined to present U2's performance in the most dramatic of contexts.

Aside from the sheer spectacle of it, the inside-out world possessed a surreal beauty that was awesome to behold.