reverie

Breuer has made this his rallying cry as he drives change in the armed forces and tries to jolt Germans from their post-Cold War, end-of-history reverie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate ● May 8, 2025

But as he travels home on the boat, shutting out the world with giant sunglasses and a baggy hoodie, Lochlan doesn’t really seem to have learned anything from his reverie.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

When Lennon presented McCartney with “Strawberry Fields Forever,” a woozy reverie loosely based on his childhood, McCartney wrote his own memory piece, “Penny Lane.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

He learned to coax Brother Cyrus into that place of reverie, and he collected the stories like treasure.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 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

Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss