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Sentence Examples 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. In his hypothetical reverie, he saw that a defeated army could regroup in a matter of weeks and be ready to fight. Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie. But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected. However, the hour was late and the last train called us from our fireside reverie. Another moan of terror brings him out of his reverie and he casts a worried look in her direction. He would begin caterwauling, and I would be rudely jerked out of my reverie. My reverie ends abruptly as I join the wrong exit lane from the autoroute, one reserved for drivers with a prepayment card. His sarcastic comment brought her out of her reverie like a bucket of cold water. 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. Then, as if coming out of a reverie, he shook his head gently, thinking better of whatever was on his mind. Snapping out from her thoughtful reverie, she barked an order to the warriors under her command. He shook himself out of his reverie to find Alicia staring at him and transformed his smirk back into a benevolent smile. This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely. The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie. The organ sounded from the front of the church, the rich tones bringing me out of my reverie. Now focus on the feeling not the memory, Phil says quietly, his voice cutting into my reverie. James shook his head and stirred himself from his reverie, bringing himself back to the real world. I straightened, stretched and yawned, glancing idly about me, a man awakening from a romantic reverie. 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. Show More Sentences Milan's inner world is one that mixes hallucination with reality, subjective reverie with objective perception. In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope. He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish. I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish. All was well and beautiful for the first 10 minutes, till a chorus of sharp voices pierced my champagne reverie. It is a soporific reverie that wafts gently and beguilingly but ultimately insubstantially. The Old Woman from the Royal Collection chuckles in her reverie, amused by the fantastic costume Rembrandt has garbed her in. Rose, having snapped out of her reverie, was muttering discontentedly over her schedule. This brilliant reverie was flawed only by the introduction of text, like subtitles, taken from interviews with dockworkers. A knock on her chamber door wrenched Sisilla from her sorrowful reverie, as a doe-eyed servant girl poked her head into the room. The reverie was broken as if someone hurled a boulder into a smooth-flowing stream. She was interrupted in her reverie by a sight of a man, clad in black, descending the hill with some rapidity. The kettle began to whistle, and she broke herself out of her reverie and made two mugs of tea. At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie. Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow. The sound of a knock at the door woke him from his reverie, and he walked quickly downstairs. Her meticulously detailed and fanciful descriptions of ordinary ingredients transported me to an Alice-in-Wonderland tea-party reverie. 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. 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. Yet Brewer regards this as a nostalgic reverie and will have none of it. Show More Sentences 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. Now shaken from his reverie, stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ. In the end, the air of melancholic reverie begins to get a little cloying. I was snapped out of my reverie by my teacher staring down at me beadily waiting for me to answer the question that he had supposedly just asked me. St. Peter at one point exclaims to Lillian, in a beatific reverie. The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city. The alarm bell began to ring, jogging Deed out of her reverie. The president hung up, holding his cards, which snapped me out of a reverie that this was extreme multitasking even for him. Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie. Often the reverie rolled on deep into the night, an unflagging, unredundant product of the raconteurial mind. Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs. 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. When asked what dessert was like, Goldblum simply pauses, wide-eyed, in reverie. 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. I was brought out of my reverie by the creak of a floorboard behind me. Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard. The loud slam of a locker door startled her out of her personal reverie. The whole town was in a drunken reverie, singing and dancing to brass bands with the tribal beat of the Basques. Snakehips is another beautiful alto reverie, turning from smokily spinning figures to bouncing mid-tempo swing and then loose, wailing double-time. 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. Show More Sentences My reverie was interrupted abruptly when I heard the leaves rustling. The reverie was further reinforced by our captain Stefanos pointing out Goldie Hawn's holiday home. The noise of the whizzing machine might disturb the calm of my stoveside reverie, but the satin texture makes the disruption worthwhile. Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading. The sitter, depicted in what is widely overinterpreted as a masturbatory reverie, enjoys a prominent place in Picasso's long succession of muses. I will not allow your Genius the slightest approach to inspiration, and I can admit no verisimility in a reverie which is fixed on a foundation you now allow to be so weak. The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting. Examples from Classical Literature While gazing on the carte-de-visite she was roused from the sweet reverie it had called up by hearing footsteps outside. This mental effort is termed reverie, or somnambulation, and is described more at large in Sect. The cataleptic spasm which preceded the reverie and somnambulation in the patient, whose case is related in Sect. How many ancient loves, hates, angers, can we not re-experience in any idle hour we choose to give over to reverie? The ruffian seemed to have lapsed into a reverie, or else he slept with open eyes. Suddenly he started out of a vague reverie and pressed an investigatory hand to his side. With that she fell into a reverie, which was only interrupted by the arrival of Jael and her boxes. She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift. He started from his reverie as she and the nurse approached, and lifted the latchet of the little wicket to lot them pass. Mr. Greenwood's reverie was interrupted by the entrance of his valet, who introduced the Honourable Mr. sawder into the study. At this point of his reverie Pierre was roused by Thomas, who asked him to fetch a tool. She was dreaming already with her eyes open, and she sank into number six in a lotus-eater's reverie. But he was now becoming uneasy, scruples were tingeing his reverie with anxiety. Often and anxiously the cabalist shot a glance at his companion, and then again relapsed into reverie. And the robust anarchist, hanging his head on his breast, fell into a long reverie. The buzzing of the annunciator, a man's voice aroused Ulick from his reverie. In the meantime he seated himself at another piano of ancient aspect, and beginning to extemporise soon became lost in reverie. When I awoke from my reverie the Reverend Mr. platitude was quitting the apartment. The driver awoke with a start from profound reverie, looked Kirkwood over, and bowed with gesticulative palms. Halson roused himself from the reverie in which he was sitting with glazed eyes. Show More Sentences But my fervour gradually weakened, and I fell insensibly into a reverie. The voice of frith the chauffeur roused him from gloomy reverie. They fell into a despondent reverie, with their chins in their bosoms. He seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead. The quick step of Fonseca interrupted the courtier's reverie. Her reverie was at last disturbed by the peculiar behavior of the seafowl. He was roused from his reverie by the arrival of selina's letter. She seemed wrapped in a reverie in which Diana felt lonesomely that she had neither lot nor part. She awoke from her reverie when Lady Willow stepped into the hansom. In the songless silence the robin was practising his autumn reverie. Virginia started from her reverie, but held the volume fast. The lieutenant-governor's reverie had now come down to the period at which he himself was sitting in the historic chair. The heavy, lumbering steps of a policeman at last broke her reverie. He was roused from his reverie by the sound of a trotting horse. Presently I became conscious in my reverie of a little crumpled piece of paper on the floor. This resolution coloured his reverie throughout the uptown journey. When Nydia left her, Ione sank into a deep but delicious reverie. Each one of his words lulled and prolonged the reverie of Angelique. Her trilling laughter smote upon his reverie, and he stepped to the screen-door, through which he could see her running down the path to the beach. Then she sighed, and fell into a reverie from which she did not wake till the early twilight sent her down to take new observations, which only confirmed her suspicion. Show More Sentences George, manipulating the sheet automatically, fell into a reverie. He was aroused from this reverie by his friend, who, having hitched about nervously and blinked at the trees for a time, suddenly coughed in an introductory way, and spoke. His reverie was broken abruptly by the jangling supper-bell. Fouquet's voice drew the young prince from his wrathful reverie. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of reverie? Words that rhyme with reverie What is the plural of reverie? What is the noun for reverie? Translations for reverie Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Reveres reveres reverently reverentially reverential reverent reveries revering revers reversable reversal reversals 7-letter Words Starting With r re rev reve rever reveri