castle in the air

Example Sentences

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Fittingly for a boy in a centuries-old town in what was then Communist East Germany, his was no ordinary castle in the air.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2014

His face and eyes shine as he hurries towards his doom, blinded by a beautiful delusion, his own personal castle in the air.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2010

“Now that castle in the air has a foundation underneath it and is becoming an impending reality.”

From Washington Post

So too, society in California is less a society than a congregation of subcultures, many of them with a membership of one: every man's home is his castle in the air here.

From Time Magazine Archive

For twenty minutes, we explored my castle in the air together.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson