Mr Xi's glorious dreams of the future, it appears, alternate with nightmarish visions.
"It wasn't all tied up in his head with friends and the neighborhood, playground days and glorious dreams at night".
Mysterious, full of passion and glorious dreams, his Gatsby is one element that the otherwise meandering film gets totally right.
It is "A Glorious Dream," not "A Glorious Day".
So has that glorious dream of liberty, democracy and the rule of law crumbled, as most things do, into the enveloping Cairo dust?
Suddenly awake in the predawn chill, I stumbled on imperfect legs to a desk to record every detail of my glorious dream.
We tend to remember Coleridge's glorious dream of Xanadu, but in the end, it's about a place not reached — not even quite remembered.
Ms. Miller, who also has a debut solo album, "A Glorious Dream," coming out this month, lives less calamitously in the financial district with her husband, David Miller, an opera singer and a member of the group Il Divo; and their dog, Cosmo, a Maltese-Havanese mix.
He seems to be waiting for someone else to break the logjam, for some outsider to deliver on the glorious dream of hope and change that originally carried him into the White House.
God is among us, and within us, and around us, encountering, nudging, loving, transforming the world and its creatures toward the glorious dream the shepherds announced so many years ago, toward the beloved community of prophetic dreams, and the nightwatch that proclaims "all is well, fear not, the Lord is here".
She thinks of a song by Nick Cave "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For," then of Vitalie's longing, and how it lay "like a well-hidden egg in her chest and purred unseen with glorious, secret dreams".
