reverie
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Breuer has made this his rallying cry as he drives change in the armed forces and tries to jolt Germans from their post-Cold War, end-of-history reverie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Adrift in a 1990s-esque dream-pop reverie, Uchis coasts through a tunnel of love, her ethereal voice cradled by reverberations of electric guitars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.
From Slate ● May 8, 2025
But as he travels home on the boat, shutting out the world with giant sunglasses and a baggy hoodie, Lochlan doesn’t really seem to have learned anything from his reverie.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
Mr. Ram interrupts my reverie, a shaking hand holding a page taut.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
During intimate evening reveries and at occasional large-scale gatherings, they muse over the decades they’ve spent cultivating their own talents, with joy, satisfaction and maybe a twinge of regret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
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
There's Callier, a bar that can inspire Proustian reveries across generations of Eurail clutching backpackers.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
As the word ‘brotherly’ passed through his mind in one of his reveries, he smiled, and glanced up at the picture of Mozart that was before him...
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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