He wasn't just about reconstructing the American dream.
They had long dreamed of reconstructing the ice palace.
She was the force behind the seemingly impossible dream of reconstructing a dying theater, first artistically, then literally.
With the recent advances in adult- and embryonic-stem cells technologies, the dream of reconstructing an entire organ or at least parts of it, seems likely to be realized soon.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler, believing he too stood at the center of something, rose from the seat of his car as it slowly circled the Place de la Concorde before dawn; later, from the top of the Parvis du Sacré-Coeur, he gaped at the city he had fantasized about since boyhood, when he studied street maps and dreamed of reconstructing Paris in the heart of Berlin.
In the Inland Empire, real estate developers found a seemingly endless expanse of emptiness in which to reconstruct the California Dream whose façade had been stripped bare in L.A. by the polarization of endemic poverty and opulent wealth, crime rates, gang culture, failing public schools, and numerous other indices of a fading future for the urban middle class.
Like a deathbed dream it leapfrogs through Arenas's life, reconstructing crucial moments as a succession of bright, feverish illuminations.
When "Before Night Falls" opened at the New York Film Festival last month, the Times critic Stephen Holden wrote, "Like a deathbed dream it leapfrogs through Arenas's life, reconstructing crucial moments as a succession of bright, feverish illuminations...
An early interpretation of the film uses dream analysis to explain that the first part is a dream of the real Diane Selwyn, who has cast her dream-self as the innocent and hopeful "Betty Elms", reconstructing her history and persona into something like an old Hollywood film.
In his work Yume no shiro ("Instead of Dreams"), he reconstructed Japanese history in the age of gods on the basis of natural science.
