How To Use Reverie In A Sentence

On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely.
The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious. Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat
Such reveries are meant to support Joe's contention that he has less trouble relating to men than he does women.

As the show ended and fans filed to the exits only one thing was missing from this roots reverie - just a little more time.
By degrees, perhaps under the spell of some influence which stirs us when sleeping nature awakens once more to life, I lost myself in reverie, and recalled drowsily Lorimer of the Northwest
She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs.
I have heard, that if these sublime genuises are wakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
She was startled out of her reverie by a loud crash.
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
Which brought me again to my whole reverie about steel: As much as we prize things in this culture, we do not much fetishize the process by which they were made.
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
On the rough paper, my pencil snagged; at once, my reverie was interrupted. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
His sarcastic comment brought her out of her reverie like a bucket of cold water.
The reverie was broken as if someone hurled a boulder into a smooth flowing stream.
She was only half awake until the whitter of skeeter blades roused her from her reverie. Beowulf's Children
He has unfolded for her what could have been simply a lecture on the solitaires, a narrative that gradually becomes a tale, a reverie, a meditation on the birds.
At those times I enter one of those far off reveries, the kind that lead people to say nervously, ‘Penny for your thoughts.’
One of the reasons I like cycling is that you can get into long reveries while pedalling along.
I'm thinking, somewhat critically, it sure has been a long time since she began talking about opening this community centre to serve the scads of immigrant kids in St. Jamestown, when she pulls me out of the dank reverie.
Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three.
However, the hour was late and the last train called us from our fireside reverie.
Mark's reveries turn to the minor humiliations he will be able to impose on his flatmate if he gets the job.
This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely.
Revisionists would say that the romanticism of the chroniclers' reverie for that era was coloured by nostalgia for the generation lost in the first world war that choked their critical senses but the glory of Cardus's prose outweighs almost all quibbles. VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself. The Opium Habit
Leading a life of calm duty , constant routine, mystic reverie, -- made them a sort of nuns.
Milan's inner world is one that mixes hallucination with reality, subjective reverie with objective perception.
On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Archive 2006-09-01
More painful by far than reveries of the uncharted future is the thought of the shut and sealed annals of the past.
The travelogue prefigures his style - limpid narrative, minute detailing, wide-ranging, seamlessly fitting intertextual references, snatches of reverie, bursts of humour.
The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery. Study of a Woman
Morrison rouses himself out of his beery reverie.
The themes are still the same where sleep evades; your warmth is shared with bounteousness unchanged in all these years – I cling to edges of your reverie, listening, jealous in a sense, aware your mood is equally as clear to me. Archive 2007-10-01
My pleasant reverie was broken by Mike tugging at my arm and pleading: ‘Can I have a bike, Dad, please?’
I was drifting off into reveries of one sort or another, when I heard a voice.
James shook his head and stirred himself from his reverie, bringing himself back to the real world.
He would begin caterwauling, and I would be rudely jerked out of my reverie.
He was staring at the fireplace, his eyes wide, trying to figure out what was wrong with him when he was snapped out of his reverie by the sound of a gentle cough behind him.
A sallow aesthete, lantern-jawed, was lost in reverie, illusion or void. PASSION IN THE PEAK
The laughter of my children finally broke my reverie.
He was no sooner waked from his reverie, than he begged pardon, and offered to make all proper concessions for what he had done through mere inadvertency. Travels through France and Italy
It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window.
The snip of Beryl's embroidery scissors broke into his reverie. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
The sound of a knock at the door woke him from his reverie, and he walked quickly downstairs.
All was well and beautiful for the first 10 minutes, till a chorus of sharp voices pierced my champagne reverie.
We now take a more cynical, or at least a more bemused, view of such analogistic reveries, for we recognize that the cosmos, in all its grandness, does not exist for us or as a mirror of our centrality in the scheme of universal things.
The Old Woman from the Royal Collection chuckles in her reverie, amused by the fantastic costume Rembrandt has garbed her in.
At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie.
Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard.
He shook himself out of his reverie to find Alicia staring at him and transformed his smirk back into a benevolent smile.
Appropriately titled Hiding In Full View, Alison Watt's recent paintings focus on swathes of lyrically convoluted fabrics that appear to screen unseen depths of melancholic reverie. This week's new exhibitions
Morrison rouses himself out of his beery reverie.
Many times since Old Father had given him this gift, he had used its intense, piercing sound to send him into reveries. THE BROKEN GOD
Yet there is also no denying the fact that most of these fancy reveries were introduced into China quite late, since the 1930s.
These confused reveries of Dr Barbara had sustained him when he first reached the refuge. RUSHING TO PARADISE
There is a sort of listlessness -- or, perhaps, more properly, reverie -- in which many indulge, which is as sinful as it is unprofitable; and there are modes of thinking and subjects of thought, which are, to say the least, unworthy of a rational, intelligent and immortal spirit. The Young Woman's Guide
But to any freedom-loving Ethiopian or any other reasonable human being, the "pardon" is nothing more than the reveries of a self-absorbed megalomaniac garbed in legalistic hokum. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
I have gone beyond the oneiric reverie of waking and out the other side into a harsh landscape of phospherent lights that cast ever-changing shadows, eliminating all depth perception.
Juliette Blightman deals in deceptive banalities that, through meticulously selective stage management, conjure moments of reverie on the time-honoured, irrepressible passing of time. This week's new exhibitions
The sound of Morris slapping his own thigh brought him out of his pointless reverie. LOHENGRIN
At times a flick of self - preservation burned through the fog of reverie.
As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.
The bower becomes significant, then, as the externalization of this internal, unreachable environment where any kind of reverie is possible; for Kitty, under constant surveillance, the bower represents a winsome retreat that "possessed such a charm over her senses, as constantly to tranquillize her mind and quiet her spirits," a place which she believed "alone could restore her to herself" (193). 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
You know Perahia will leap lightly over Brahms's formidable technical hurdles, and it was good to have each variation so strongly characterised, whether poetic reverie, dancing siciliana or brilliant virtuoso display. Evening Standard - Home
My primatological reverie is interrupted by a crowd of visitors.
Reveries of former felicity are interrupted by the sight of a valiant little vessel ploughing towards us through choppy seas.
My reverie was interrupted abruptly when I heard the leaves rustling.
It is in order to write that so many poets have tried to live the reveries of opium.
Many there are amongst us who obviously prefer the safety of pure illusion or the myths of romancers who would have us reside in a dreamland or in reverie, drifting endlessly within the gates of Eden.
Meaning may retreat in reverie, but like the repressed it always returns. Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
Those looking for a more definitive primer on Ze and his relentlessly inventive experimentalism should turn to 2010's "Studies of Tom Ze: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You," a five-disc, vinyl-only retrospective with a title that only hints at the heady reveries contained within. Lost tracks: Tom Ze, "Estudando a Bossa (Nordeste Plaza)"
It seemed that every time I was becoming immersed in events, Cho would begin caterwauling and I would be rudely jerked out of my reverie.
If I were to allow myself indulgence in algolagnic reveries they would even now excite me without difficulty; but I have systematically discouraged them, so that they give me little or no practical trouble. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
_dramatis personæ_ in my own algolagnic reveries were elderly women; somewhat strangely, I did not associate physical sexuality at this period with young and attractive women. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
With a contented sigh, he lost himself in a colourful reverie of big business deals and boardroom power games.
The column is so full of nostalgia and reveries that it's a bit hard to locate the argument, but I think this paragraph is it.
The sound of crunching gravel interrupted my reverie.
Having been picked up by a black cab from the Hilton Hotel, where I had been watching the pugilists weigh-in on Friday afternoon, my reverie was soon rather rudely interrupted.
Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow.
Another moan of terror brings him out of his reverie and he casts a worried look in her direction.
In her installation last season at MAM, Teresita Fernandez continued her minimalist reveries on the art and idea of landscape.
It conjures up old reveries of carnivals and roadside zoos, sideshows and state fairs - huge tents fetid with the sweet stench of anticipation.
The driver awoke with a start from profound reverie, looked Kirkwood over, and bowed with gesticulative palms. The Black Bag
He takes refuge in reverie, even turning to his dead mother (Sophia Loren) and influential memories from his youth. 'Nine' is short on a few counts, including dialogue, music
This brilliant reverie was flawed only by the introduction of text, like subtitles, taken from interviews with dockworkers.
It is only romantic reverie that cannot thrive in a milieu of sober criticism.
A knock on her bedroom door aroused her from her reverie.
Part II: Allegro Part III: Tempo I This becomes clear in the solo "cadenza," an Impressionist reverie in which a complex mood is evoked, requiring a titanic struggle to be played with a single hand. Sound of One Hand Playing
As all the cleaning was going on I'd slipped into a kind of reverie. THE EXECUTION
It threw me into a sort of enthusiastic and pleasing reverie, which made me ample amends for the fatigues, discourtesies, and continued cross accidents I had encountered in the course of the day. Travels in England in 1782
His face, bending over the tables of the Law with the earnest research of a student, with the chastened subduement of devotion, with all the calm sentiments of reverie, Jacked something of its normal aspect. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
It is in it that we materialize our reveries, through it that our dream seizes upon its true substance.
It is no coincidence that the paintings of Kandinsky and his modernist colleagues, especially the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, send me into the same kind of reverie as an eight-part motet by Byrd.
She cooked in it for four years, reading a few Seaside Novels and dreaming of knights and Arcady, romantic palaces and fountains — these romantic reveries invariably interrupted by her husband Jake asking "Why ain't you served them beans? “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”
He went on to paint Dutch scenes as if they were further topographical reveries in an Italian landscape, although with cowmen instead of goatherds among the weirs and ivy-dripping ruins, as in The Ford.
But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected.
The loud slam of a locker door startled her out of her personal reverie.
The organ sounded from the front of the church, the rich tones bringing me out of my reverie.
This slight premise is barely spelled out before each of the guests drift into reveries illustrating how they've arrived at this point in their lives.
His fancies never quite became convictions, but adolescence is the golden age of this kind of dreamery and reverie which supplements reality and totalizes our faculties, and often gives Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help.
Adorned with pearls, distracted or in reverie, a plump child with pointed ears and a pale blue face graces one panel of Diane's Puppies as though unaware of her companion at play in the other panel of the diptych.
But to see Keller looking older and sadder, as we all look and feel these days (at least the older part), made me reflect on the passage of time, its irreversible flow and thinning force, an Updikean reverie interrupted when our oldest ocicat planted himself squarely in front of me on the desk and made it vocally evident that it was time for his late-night treat. James Wolcott's Blog
A good deal of waking life is punctuated by daydreams, reveries, and fantasies in which the mind withdraws to contemplate an interior landscape.
A sallow aesthete, lantern-jawed, was lost in reverie, illusion or void. PASSION IN THE PEAK
I have heard, that if these sublime geniuses are awakened from their reveries by the _appulse_ of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of _cataleptic_ patients. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
There are sometimes moments as the Professor lounges at ease by the billabong, the perfect picture of recumbent indolence, when his sylvan reveries are crushed by a sense of sudden and prophetic dread.
It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth.
Frankenstein, who appears lost in desponding reverie. Act III
My reverie was soon broken by the sight of an exceptionally beautiful woman gliding noiselessly past me, on the way from the lifts to the main entrance.
He looked at the sturdy, golden-brown puppy, and immediately included it in his reverie. CHAPTER XV
Cornell is talking about these things in reverie: the little store nearby where you can find star fish butterflies in little boxes driftwood and in the antiques store the things from Asia inlaid wood Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
Certainly the singer could hardly make a bigger contrast with the leader's light-footed oud playing or Mirabassi's clarinet reveries, at times hardly seeming to disturb the air.
Do not these words float in airy waves, until the sense is charmed and lulled into delicious reverie, as by the Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
This makes the dictionary not just a locus of verification but also a provoker of useful reverie. The Times Literary Supplement
Chris and I went for a walk up over the hill and had a light brunch at the Reverie Cafe in Cole Valley.
She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom. Anne of Green Gables
She was startled out of her reverie by a loud crash.
The album splits between twisted, skewed rock anthems and eerie reveries such as the whispery ‘Someone's in the Wolf’.
Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie.
He went on to paint Dutch scenes as if they were further topographical reveries in an Italian landscape, although with cowmen instead of goatherds among the weirs and ivy-dripping ruins, as in The Ford.
So we walked on, me in galumph-appreciative reverie, and stumbled upon a dead porcupine. The Boat | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries?
St. Peter at one point exclaims to Lillian, in a beatific reverie.
Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie.
A knock on her chamber door wrenched Sisilla from her sorrowful reverie, as a doe-eyed servant girl poked her head into the room.
It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth.
He has been scouting ahead, in search of game, and now, as he takes his time returning, his reverie is interrupted by the sight of another rider heading toward the wagons. Excerpt: Snow Mountain Passage by James Houston
I found myself lost in reverie, listening to the beat of the drum – unpredictable and incoherent mixed with the quick and violent strumming of the Tar. Jenni's life at the moment
It is only romantic reverie that cannot thrive in a milieu of sober criticism.
Norman had always fostered a certain self-indulgence in respect of his chain of thought, and this reverie was no exception — in other words big on panoramic sweep, but as some of his colleagues regretted, rather long-winded. Archive 2009-05-01
How often as a boy had he been rapped into a galvanic activity out of the deep reveries he used to fall into -- those fits of a kind of fishlike day-dream. The Return
She pushed her chair back from the window, replaced the diary reverently in her lockbox, and forced herself from reverie to motion. PAINT THE WIND
She was interrupted in her reverie by a sight of a man, clad in black, descending the hill with some rapidity.
There are sometimes moments as the Professor lounges at ease by the billabong, the perfect picture of recumbent indolence, when his sylvan reveries are crushed by a sense of sudden and prophetic dread.
My reverie ends abruptly as I join the wrong exit lane from the autoroute, one reserved for drivers with a prepayment card.
This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child. Nevermore
Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features.
The woman, in a wistful reverie, holds her hand round the cup while she waits for the tea to cool, relishing the warm china and the aromatic steam, which she watches as it detaches itself from the brim of the cup.
The proposed title ‘Memory Harbour’ is not used in the manuscript or in the corrected complete typescript, which is titled with a singular form, A Reverie over Childhood and Youth, from which Reveries Cuala 1916 was set. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
We well know the small influence these gentry exert upon our society, and how the technicians of every order distrust them and rightly refuse to take their reveries seriously.
But intensity of any sort has to be inferred rather than directly experienced; both men act in a dreamy though mostly unsmiling reverie.
I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish.
Her reverie was disturbed by a footfall on the stair.
I shook my head again to get out of my fanciful reverie.
I'm so lost in reverie that the pole almost flies out of my hand. Between Here and the Yellow Sea
Snapping out from her thoughtful reverie, she barked an order to the warriors under her command.
It is probably more than a coincidence that I first met Thornton before our scheduled interview in an antique store where she was engrossed in an almost visible reverie among the stereoscopic slides, Chinese checkers and cha-cha albums.
As the burly adventurer Trelawney tells it, Shelley and his friend Jane Williams were boating in the Gulf of Spezia near Pisa and the poet was in a dark reverie. Lev Raphael: Is It Time to Throw Out Your Books?
The horse neighed and snorted, and my reverie was broken.
I straightened, stretched and yawned, glancing idly about me, a man awakening from a romantic reverie.
It soon, however, became associated in my mind with algolagnic excitement, giving rise to reveries which took the ordinary form of imagining oneself stripped and whipped, etc., by persons of the opposite sex. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope.
The sharp snap of her mother's voice pierced her reverie.
One day he awoke from his reverie and cleared his throat, as if to warn me that a rare insight into the strange mind of the peripatetic music teacher was imminent.
He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish.
My little blonde ringleted niece told me in hushed tones of great reverie, about the "ain - jelllll" that she helped place atop the tree. Wendchymes Diary Entry
Glazunov's Reverie was the original makeweight for the fourth side of the Mozart set.
In the space of a few pages, we learn about the regional differences in the herbs used for ripieno (ravioli filling), we are treated to a reverie on intimacy in middle age and we're offered a meditation on loving and forgetting. A Feast of a Food Book
I was brought out of my reverie by the creak of a floorboard behind me.
A woman in a striped robe stands at the table, her back hunched in stony reverie; Bonnard renders her monumental, sphinxlike. The 20th Century's Vermeer, or a Masturbatory Hack?
The picture remains a pastoral scene with a nominal biblical context: a celebration of landscape immersed in vague wistful reverie.
Their tie-dye candy colours suggest rave-era new ageism but their hunched backs hint that reverie is no easy path to enlightenment. This week's new exhibitions
Frequent commenter Peter has no time for these lubricious political reveries either, nor do some of the more humane folks over at the new Western Standard. Archive 2009-03-01
It conjures up old reveries of carnivals and roadside zoos, sideshows and state fairs - huge tents fetid with the sweet stench of anticipation.
The picture remains a pastoral scene with a nominal biblical context: a celebration of landscape immersed in vague wistful reverie.
Startled from her reverie, Cameron waited to see what would emerge. MINUTES TO BURN
The kettle began to whistle, and she broke herself out of her reverie and made two mugs of tea.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo

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