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reverie

[rev-uh-ree] / ˈrɛv ə ri /


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Kylee Loera’s mostly black-and-white projections strategically added atmospheric images, including the eponymous streetcar; Eric Southern’s lighting zeroed in on Blanche—in different colors—whenever she slipped into reverie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Watching the film is akin to trying to explain a night’s reverie to a friend, with specific details just out of reach and fading the faster you try to remember them.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Have you ever wondered what movie might draw praise from Jacob Elordi and Benicio Del Toro for its cinematic reverie?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate ● May 8, 2025

For a moment, I’m pulled from the reverie of him, genuinely curious.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

Drifting down a corridor at her German school, a world that looks even drabber and uglier after the wonders she’s seen, this Priscilla seems lost in a dream, the most private of reveries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

There's Callier, a bar that can inspire Proustian reveries across generations of Eurail clutching backpackers.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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