Reverie \Rev"er*ie\, Revery \Rev"er*y\, n.; pl. {Reveries}. [F. r['e]verie, fr. r[^e]ver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf. {Rave}.] 1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. ``Rapt in nameless reveries.'' --Tennyson.
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. --Locke.
2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds]. --Addison.
This year, the reverie was broken in part by two shots fired on Red Square.
It is not hard to picture Turkish pashas immersed in reverie as invading troops pummel the city walls, ending forever Budapest's entanglement with the Sultanate.
Or was it because the sale of Wigits would shrink Suit's empire? His reverie was ended when he nearly collided with Alan Counter, the finance director.
And then the niggling doubts begin to creep in. Was the idea of reverie, with all that that word has come to connote of the quasi-mystical wedding of intellect, subjectivity and the unconscious mind, quite enough?
On "Sun," a koto gives a glint of Japanese musical tradition. In passages, the voices of Gramm and a choir including Merry Clayton and Siedah Garrett ascend in reverie like a sunrise.
She breaks the reverie by asking, "Is you gonna record another album?" "Yes, ma'am," the Tonys reply.