reverie
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Watching the film is akin to trying to explain a night’s reverie to a friend, with specific details just out of reach and fading the faster you try to remember them.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
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
“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
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