Meaning may retreat in reverie, but like the repressed it always returns. From Wordnik.com. [Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music] Reference
He takes refuge in reverie, even turning to his dead mother (Sophia Loren) and influential memories from his youth. From Wordnik.com. ['Nine' is short on a few counts, including dialogue, music] Reference
The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
Virginia became silent and melancholy, and whole hours were spent in reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
This mental effort is termed reverie, or somnambulation, and is described more at large in. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A really good martini engenders reverie, which is why I was pleased to get one in August at the. From Wordnik.com. [The Informed Traveler] Reference
The sound that had broken her reverie was the gentle sweep of big-bladed oars through the calm sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Spirit in Prison] Reference
The reverie is a reflection of our longings, exultations, and complacencies, our fears, suspicions, and disappointments. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform] Reference
Bachelard's "reverie" can map interestingly into Sri Arobindo's phenomenology of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [That Sri Aurobindian ontology will exercise power on merit is unavoidable] Reference
He had sunk deep into an odd kind of reverie that, increasingly, had become his habit over the past several months. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Its woes but live in reverie!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell] Reference
In a kind of reverie Tom's thoughts wandered to Orestes. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade on Mystery Trail] Reference
She stayed alone in a kind of reverie -- a sort of stupor. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference
His eye wandered from Maria to the dancers, and a kind of reverie stole over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
And what other song writer manages to place the words "reverie" and "prescient" in a song?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public, the Private and Everything In Between] Reference
My steps involuntarily led me to the scene of my chagrin, and in a sad kind of reverie I wandered through the rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Gift. A Novel.] Reference
He let fall these last words slowly, in a kind of reverie, as he gazed out on the garden over which the twilight was fast gathering. From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
We were sitting down, too tired to get up, when Filippe amazed me considerably by the following words, which he spoke in a kind of reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Circle the dwelling in reverie. From Wordnik.com. [July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Alice snaps out of her near hypnotic reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler] Reference
The man shook out of his reverie and casually returned his stare. From Wordnik.com. [White Pierre, Part One] Reference
I am awoken from my reverie by the voice of the butt-ugly shift manager. From Wordnik.com. [Last Tango at Quiznos] Reference
“Excuse me,” a voice says, interrupting my reverie as I watch her go. From Wordnik.com. [Celery: Viva Veggie Viagra!] Reference
Her favorite reverie puts her back in Russia, as a child, her mother still alive. From Wordnik.com. [Independence Day] Reference
Lights, washing him, covering his small existence in the self-fashioned arms of reverie. From Wordnik.com. [The Movement of Strings] Reference
His reverie of Anna disrupted, he looked down and realized that it was not a woman's hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Animal] Reference
A WANDERER LOST IN reverie inevitably ends up near water, Herman Melville wrote in "Moby-Dick.". From Wordnik.com. [One Giant Skating Rink For Mankind?] Reference
"The spiciness," he says on emerging from his reverie, "it keeps it from being cloyingly sweet.". From Wordnik.com. [Beer Lovers Going With The Flow] Reference
Occasionally during his work, Imortél paused: not in hesitation, but in a contemplative reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Magnum Opus, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man] Reference
What brought her back was a sense of physical cleaving, which came veiled by mists of doubtful reverie. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part II] Reference
Fifties coming-of-age tales have become a cliche unto themselves, but Levinson's reverie feels handcrafted. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Lane] Reference
Far into the morning a noise in the distance, a siren, a bottle breaking on the pavement — something that stirs her from her reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
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