reverie

At night, Elle shrugs on her father’s heavy black coat and slips into a reverie about a myth in which a grief-stricken murderer called the Leather Man searches for his lost daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

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

“Why, Werner—” She loses herself momentarily in troubled reverie, surrounded by sleek furniture, some of it wrapped in thick wool blankets.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Elordi, for his part, gives us a rock ’n’ roll king worthy of those reveries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr