Sentence examples for rather dream of from inspiring English sources

As Lyubov Ranevskaya, the self-obsessed, lovelorn gentlewoman who would rather dream of her family's past in the fabled cherry orchard than make a practical move to protect it (she's the gentler, less realistic sister to "The Seagull" 's Madame Arkadina), Petronia Paley is extraordinary — and so extraordinarily beautiful that one wonders why she is not a film star of the highest rank.

But indications so far suggest that most officials would rather dream of new dams and desal plants than lead the way to a truly new era.

Of course, sometimes you'd rather dream than do.

Or rather, dream travel destinations.

"Today children would fear rather than dream" of asking for Mr. Chagaev's autograph, he suggested.

He is anxious to herald small business success stories, rather than dream of major new employers suddenly arriving.

Rather than dream of what might happen in 2019, investors should take the current pulse: Asos remains a great pioneering business and Robertson deserves the acclaim.

Of all the American cultural symbols that haunt the film, which borrows from the Coen brothers' "Fargo" and from David Lynch's "Twin Peaks," the most indelible by far is Marilyn Monroe, or rather, the dream of Monroe.

A perfectly pleasant girl on her first big excursion abroad, she would doubtless grow into a better-socialized woman who would make exorbitant hotel reservations rather than dream of dumping herself on total strangers.

International observers claim the leaders of the three armed Islamic groups who now control the northern Malian cities of Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao are motivated by money and power rather the dream of a caliphate in the Sahel.

It is not the desire to make money, but rather the dream of making a mark for the benefit of future generations that drive them.