reverie
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Kylee Loera’s mostly black-and-white projections strategically added atmospheric images, including the eponymous streetcar; Eric Southern’s lighting zeroed in on Blanche—in different colors—whenever she slipped into reverie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Jones turned from her reverie and looked at Behar as if the latter were a bag of dog poop burning on her doorstep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Now, shaken from a reverie, reality collides with illusion at the languid pace of a stream.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.
From Slate ● May 8, 2025
Isa snapped out of her reverie and looked at Allegra.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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Just as musical reveries reveal our secret selves, they also point to what we share with others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
At the same time, like so much of this movie, the scene also feels forced, partly because the writer-director Minhal Baig’s expressionistic reveries don’t always fit with the issues she recurrently invokes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
The Nobel laureate was a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Musk would often lapse into long reflective reveries, and the biographer would learn not to interrupt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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