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reverie

[rev-uh-ree] / ˈrɛv ə ri /


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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

This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate May 8, 2025

The sheriff’s words cut through my reverie and draw my gaze up in surprise.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

His characters may be confined by their circumstances but their imaginations are set free in theatrical games, pantomimes and nostalgic reveries.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2025

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

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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