reveries
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Just as musical reveries reveal our secret selves, they also point to what we share with others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
With club music producers Gordo, Major Lazer and Afrojack on deck, singles like “Nel” and “Secreto Victoria” put their sound in a whole new context — from poolside mezcal reveries to foggy, strobelit nightclubs.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
At the same time, like so much of this movie, the scene also feels forced, partly because the writer-director Minhal Baig’s expressionistic reveries don’t always fit with the issues she recurrently invokes.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
The Nobel laureate was a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023
But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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