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
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
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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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