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. |
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In his hypothetical reverie, he saw that a defeated army could regroup in a matter of weeks and be ready to fight. |
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Trains however, sway gently through the landscape and lull one into a pleasant reverie. |
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But the mechanic interrupts the reverie to explain that the repair is going to take longer and cost more than expected. |
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However, the hour was late and the last train called us from our fireside reverie. |
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Another moan of terror brings him out of his reverie and he casts a worried look in her direction. |
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He would begin caterwauling, and I would be rudely jerked out of my reverie. |
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My reverie ends abruptly as I join the wrong exit lane from the autoroute, one reserved for drivers with a prepayment card. |
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His sarcastic comment brought her out of her reverie like a bucket of cold water. |
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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. |
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Then, as if coming out of a reverie, he shook his head gently, thinking better of whatever was on his mind. |
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Snapping out from her thoughtful reverie, she barked an order to the warriors under her command. |
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He shook himself out of his reverie to find Alicia staring at him and transformed his smirk back into a benevolent smile. |
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This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely. |
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The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie. |
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The organ sounded from the front of the church, the rich tones bringing me out of my reverie. |
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Now focus on the feeling not the memory, Phil says quietly, his voice cutting into my reverie. |
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James shook his head and stirred himself from his reverie, bringing himself back to the real world. |
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I straightened, stretched and yawned, glancing idly about me, a man awakening from a romantic reverie. |
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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. |
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Milan's inner world is one that mixes hallucination with reality, subjective reverie with objective perception. |
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In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope. |
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He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish. |
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I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish. |
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All was well and beautiful for the first 10 minutes, till a chorus of sharp voices pierced my champagne reverie. |
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It is a soporific reverie that wafts gently and beguilingly but ultimately insubstantially. |
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The Old Woman from the Royal Collection chuckles in her reverie, amused by the fantastic costume Rembrandt has garbed her in. |
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Rose, having snapped out of her reverie, was muttering discontentedly over her schedule. |
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This brilliant reverie was flawed only by the introduction of text, like subtitles, taken from interviews with dockworkers. |
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A knock on her chamber door wrenched Sisilla from her sorrowful reverie, as a doe-eyed servant girl poked her head into the room. |
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The reverie was broken as if someone hurled a boulder into a smooth-flowing stream. |
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She was interrupted in her reverie by a sight of a man, clad in black, descending the hill with some rapidity. |
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The kettle began to whistle, and she broke herself out of her reverie and made two mugs of tea. |
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At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie. |
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Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow. |
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The sound of a knock at the door woke him from his reverie, and he walked quickly downstairs. |
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Her meticulously detailed and fanciful descriptions of ordinary ingredients transported me to an Alice-in-Wonderland tea-party reverie. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Yet Brewer regards this as a nostalgic reverie and will have none of it. |
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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. |
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Now shaken from his reverie, stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ. |
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In the end, the air of melancholic reverie begins to get a little cloying. |
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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. |
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St. Peter at one point exclaims to Lillian, in a beatific reverie. |
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The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city. |
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The alarm bell began to ring, jogging Deed out of her reverie. |
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The president hung up, holding his cards, which snapped me out of a reverie that this was extreme multitasking even for him. |
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Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie. |
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Often the reverie rolled on deep into the night, an unflagging, unredundant product of the raconteurial mind. |
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Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs. |
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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. |
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When asked what dessert was like, Goldblum simply pauses, wide-eyed, in reverie. |
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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. |
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I was brought out of my reverie by the creak of a floorboard behind me. |
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Sal describes the jazz reverie of the pianist, Slim Galliard. |
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The loud slam of a locker door startled her out of her personal reverie. |
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The whole town was in a drunken reverie, singing and dancing to brass bands with the tribal beat of the Basques. |
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Snakehips is another beautiful alto reverie, turning from smokily spinning figures to bouncing mid-tempo swing and then loose, wailing double-time. |
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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. |
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My reverie was interrupted abruptly when I heard the leaves rustling. |
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The reverie was further reinforced by our captain Stefanos pointing out Goldie Hawn's holiday home. |
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The noise of the whizzing machine might disturb the calm of my stoveside reverie, but the satin texture makes the disruption worthwhile. |
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Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading. |
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The sitter, depicted in what is widely overinterpreted as a masturbatory reverie, enjoys a prominent place in Picasso's long succession of muses. |
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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. |
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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. |
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