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reverie

[rev-uh-ree] / ˈrɛv ə ri /


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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

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate ● May 8, 2025

"Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, something is done, something is beginning. One of the great wise ones has passed."

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025

Then he fell into a reverie, stroking his beard, breathing fire, and staring at the paper.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

At first, it’s just the reveries of family and acquaintances — one of his daughters, a former girlfriend — but soon his invasions spread to complete strangers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Musk would often lapse into long reflective reveries, and the biographer would learn not to interrupt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

The thought of her mortification kept me company for a long time, but the sounds of music and laughter and Cisco Kid screams broke into my pleasant revengeful reveries.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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