reverie

At night, Elle shrugs on her father’s heavy black coat and slips into a reverie about a myth in which a grief-stricken murderer called the Leather Man searches for his lost daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate ● May 8, 2025

I stumbled on my part, too lost in reverie, and the flautist fixed me with a look most vexed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

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

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