Sentence examples for persistent dream from inspiring English sources

Another, an American based in Australia named Shawn McIntyre, said that he woke up "fifteen to twenty times" with a persistent dream that the wood on his dagger handle had shrunk by a quarter of an inch.

Called in to investigate the scene by the Chief, an old friend, Konakawa comes equipped with his own alternative realities, namely a recurring nightmare set in a circus in which every performer and spectator resembles him, and a persistent dream that looks like a greatest-hits reel from big-screen entertainments.

Linked to this pining for some ostensibly purer time is the persistent dream of anointing a new SoHo, which for a while now has been Berlin, never mind that the streets of the German capital's former frontier neighborhoods have long been jammed with Bugaboo strollers, custom-made racing bikes and tall young fashionistas wearing clothes from Kostas Murkudis.

It got me wondering: Do most people have a persistent dream about their job, and is it the same as their colleagues'?

Ms. Cho, whose sensitive family drama "Durango" was seen at the Public this season, depicts a woman ruminating on persistent dreams of a region she has never visited.

In my case, I can happily say that all those late nights in my undergraduate years that I spent chatting and discussing with friends about science, working out problems that had nothing to do with any class, and above all, those persistent dreams of becoming a scientist, were more than sufficient to prepare me.

I imagined the rumble of the trains, the lonesome horn waking him in the middle of the night from persistent dreams of riding once again.

Faber editor Lee Brackstone says publishing Morrissey's memoir would be "the fulfillment of my most pressing and persistent publishing dream".

This game looks like a stepping-stone towards Roman Abramovich's so-far elusive and persistent European dream.

By Meredith Blake February 2 , 2010Faber editor Lee Brackstone says publishing Morrissey's memoir would be "the fulfillment of my most pressing and persistent publishing dream".

It's true that rational intuitionism cannot explain why we are a priori justified in accepting the proposition that we are not now in the midst of a persistent coherent dream or in accepting that there are no miracles, but that is not a problem.