Sentence examples for Reverie from inspiring English sources

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Reverie

noun

A caper, a frolic; merriment.

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Amid the festivities, he often homes in on a single figure: a young girl lost in reverie as she stands on a misty road; a boy in bright costume standing in a snowfall.

89d768d1-5703-4523-acd4-dd18366317d8 The dentist's assistant had me gripped in a headlock when I fell into a reverie.

But Beard's reverie is interrupted when another man starts eating the crisps, setting up an intense but never quite realised confrontation.

The exclusivists in the euro zone should wake up from their reverie.

Jawaharlal Nehru once wrote that his country "was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously".

It is not for nothing that Proust's reverie in "Remembrance of Things Past" was inspired by a madeleine cake, and why some dishes are known as "comfort foods".

A sense of reverie had always pervaded his painting, but his late art, such as the altarpiece for the church of San Zaccaria (1505), possessed what Mr Brown calls a "restraint and refinement" unmatched by any of his pupils.

This year, their reverie in the snow-covered Teton mountains was clouded by the ongoing troubles of South-East Asia. South-East Asia

To Nehru India was "an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden what had been written previously".Almost at once, though, the sordid and the ordinary claimed their places.

The vision of a three-hour day was a reverie.

Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.The Washington Ballet invited viewers to enter just such a reverie during a production of "Sleepy Hollow" that had its world premiere and a run of only seven performances at the Kennedy Centre last week.

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