castles in the air
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Briceño: Something that I always valued about Cookman was that he never sold us any castles in the air.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
They're giddy at having two women pledge to make their sundry castles in the air become real.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2021
“You can be building castles in the air that have no reference to reality,” Mr. Kesler added.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2017
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2017
Sometimes they were rain clouds, heavy and dark, and sometimes airy tufts of white that cast delicate shade and twisted into shapes like hunting ravids or castles in the air.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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