| 单词 | dreaminess |
| 例句 | They were musings, idle thoughts, full sometimes of the old dreaminess, but not the kind of thing she cared to dwell on. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a magical time, full of dreaminess and charm, a time to watch the mariposas emerge out of their cocoons, gather their courage, and take flight while we floated faceup in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It wasn’t yet six o’clock but my eyes were fully open, my mind too far from dreaminess to be pulled back into sleep. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z There was something dreamy, and then a flash of irritation, and then more dreaminess before irritation erased it again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Frederick’s dreaminess, his otherness—it’s on him like a scent, and everyone can smell it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Had she missed another lengthy lecture on a movie plot and the dreaminess of the leading man? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In another, cows gallop into a misty field to graze, an interlude of pastoral dreaminess that invokes other representations — in novels and landscape paintings — yet is itself visually transfixing. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The book is cool and light and pleasurable to read, while the show’s dreaminess felt heavy and lugubrious to me. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Romero removed dreaminess in the slow movement and revealed little showiness in its cadenza. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “People want something more authentic. I think the sort of dreaminess, fluffiness and anything that isn’t grounded stands less of a chance of connecting now. And I think that’s for the better,” he tells us. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The latter’s film seems less worrying – the Thai director’s languid dreaminess seems fairly unbound by language – but there’s some cause for apprehension about the former. Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “The thing that was cool about Ficre as a chef is that to him it was making art. It’s like the dreaminess of the paintings. There’s something remembered and something invented.” The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z After a while, Wilczynski seems to tire of his violent approach, and though the film maintains its dark dreaminess, his images soften, but a sense of listlessness persists that rejects resolution. ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ Review: Grotesque, Bleak and Endless 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Nicholls uses his adroit professionalism for something more handily miraculous: sweetening the journey from fiery, idealistic dreaminess into unforgiving middle age. Books of The Times: David Nicholls?s ?One Day?: Britons Meet and Miss 2010-07-14T20:47:00Z Her early life was a horror and her incandescent dreaminess could sometimes seem like a shield. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Their sense of dreaminess and the open road is in stark contrast to the era of hard, self-centred glamour that prevailed, particularly in fashion and portrait photography, in the last decade. Ryan McGinley: nude in New York 2010-04-13T20:30:00Z Throbbing with percussive sounds of the Middle East, it put a kick into the dance action and lent an exotic dreaminess to the piece as a whole. LINES Ballet: dance, glorious dance 2011-11-18T17:20:05Z It wasn’t a wan dreaminess, it was almost like a fierce upholding of unreality.” There?s Nothing Blue About Rachel Weisz 2012-03-15T13:48:06Z As Martin, Rawles evinces an almost heroic mix of dreaminess and determination, fueled by bad information and his own strange notions. Chris O'Dowd instills a hometown feel in Hulu comedy 'Moone Boy' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z I adored everything about the film: the extreme violence, the childish games on the beach, the black suits, the dreaminess of it. The unique joy of film festivals 2013-06-07T03:11:00Z What’s on the menu here is the usual cynicism, overlaid with unconvincing, nostalgic dreaminess. ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ Review: How to Ruin Your Weekend 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The song had been written by her brother for his band, but Eilish convincingly translated the maudlin dreaminess of lyrics like “Burning cities and napalm skies / fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes.” Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The scenes in which she is captured and hustled on her way, through one strange experience after another, toward American slavery, have a sharp-focus dreaminess to them, a kind of horrible beauty. 'Book of Negroes' is a compelling look at a slave's journey 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It has a dreaminess, and a willingness to proceed by a haphazard kind of dream logic, that’s uncommon in episodic TV. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Mixing Symbolist dreaminess with Post-Impressionist muscle, Stettheimer rendered her family and New York’s interwar avant-garde as charmed, eccentric, usually androgynous caricatures in expanses of brilliant color. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The effect was nocturnal, even séance-like, adding extra dreaminess to his brief improvisation at the start that flowed into the familiar opening of Bach’s gentle Aria. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z On top of that, Del Rey has evolved into a more decisive vocalist, and her smart articulation makes the dreaminess of her new work feel more tangible than tenuous. Review | Lana Del Rey suddenly sounds like the poet laureate of post-truth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z When I left after taking in the narcotic dreaminess of Julius Horsthuis’s “Fractal Worlds,” I needed a moment to adjust my definition of a museum. Artechouse: Living at the corner of art and technology 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The ultra-romantic ballad “Stella By Starlight” was stripped of its dreaminess and became a platform for Mr. Goldblum’s zany deconstruction of the lyrics. Jeff Goldblum Plays Jazz at the Café Carlyle 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Slathered in turquoise and carmine, neons and pastels, sequences accumulate an occasional dreaminess that defies the typical constraints of low-budget filmmaking. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Track two, Higher Worlds, is powered by a scratchy post-punk guitar line that propels the chillwave dreaminess of the rest of the song. Vinyl Williams: Leminscate – review 2012-11-22T23:15:01Z It is absolutely lovely of course, a picture of absolute dreaminess. Last night's TV 2010-05-17T07:00:00Z In “Killing Commendatore,” the narrator’s dreaminess mainly feels unfocused, and a story that might have been engaging at 300 or 400 pages is drawn out to almost 700. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But Reger was driven not so much by nostalgia as by a vision of an alternate universe in which the Old World might survive through a willful combination of dreaminess and complex thought. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Kolesnikov’s blanket dreaminess lent a memory-like remove even to passages of storminess and, in one of the Chopin Nocturnes, a moment of “I could have danced all night” bliss. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Word got out about Denim's unique take on glam rock and 70s culture, as far from the fey dreaminess of Felt as could be. Denim: Britpop's less successful fabric 2010-10-21T20:40:00Z We see private bedroom conversations between Rob and Nell, in which the mother, who recognizes her son’s dreaminess as an admirable sensitivity, not as an irritating handicap, challenges her stubborn husband’s rulings. “My Friend Flicka”: A Book About Horses That Is a Book About First Love 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Like many of the songs on the album, “IRM” juxtaposes severity and dreaminess, with a keyboard chiming above the blare of the MRI samples. 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z Yet while she’s very good at making the character’s romantic intoxication feel vivid and real — you vibe on the heady dreaminess of this new love — the filmmaker isn’t inside that bubble. ‘Other People’s Children’ Review: True Romance 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The soloists meshed beautifully in a prayerful Andante; in the boisterous finale Mr. Dicterow’s almost capricious swagger provided vivid contrast to Ms. Weilerstein’s dreaminess. Music Review: Kurt Masur Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-09T23:40:08Z After serving as a navigator in the RAF during the war, where his "dreaminess" was not an asset, Cutler became a teacher in schools in Glasgow and Paisley. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z Demy's style blended the dreaminess of Golden Age Hollywood with ordinary heartbreak, making everyday life seem more like a romantic old movie and vice versa. 'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Clarkson’s features, at once sharp and soft, and the whisper of old-style Southern formality in her manner, suggest toughness and clarity of mind as well as dreaminess. | 'Cairo Time': Patricia Clarkson in Egypt in Ruba Nadda?s Script 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z The goal of these back-and-forth extremes of speed seems to be feverish intensity, but the result is more often an atmospheric, even lightheaded dreaminess, beautiful and detailed but a bit unnatural. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z But Cowen’s study identified 13 emotional responses or feelings “felt through the language of music”: amusement, joy, desire, beautiful, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance and feeling pumped up. Does that song make you sad? You’re not alone. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The plot’s dreaminess is emphasized by Yan’s repeated phrases, relentless recycling and extraordinarily metaphoric language. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The rhythmic drive of a battle cry kept on dissolving into dreaminess. Review: Philharmonic Goes Dada With Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Karawane’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Unsworth was a slim, elegant man whose gentle diffidence and dreaminess masked a steely, even ruthless dedication to his art, and the humanity, as well as the bleakness, of his moral vision. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z Driven and animated, the reading was stimulating rather than moving, missing the mystical dreaminess the music invites, the sense that it is ripening into a death as inevitable as the dropping of an overripe fruit. Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But what struck me — what I didn’t expect — was the extravagant beauty, the dreaminess, the foregrounding of poetry rather than plot. Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Sporadic texts offer a poetic interjection with the exhibits, anchoring the dreaminess into the historic facts of real danger defied at the edge of our world. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-15T23:05:28Z From early on, the stylish use of rubato gave a sense of dreaminess to her performance. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z But in Ólafsson’s performance, the dreaminess — the slight blur, the delicacy — bled into the two outer movements, too. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Refreshing the impossible-to-refresh “Man I Love,” sung with minimal accompaniment, she projected an innocent dreaminess that gave way to determination before returning to ingenuousness. Music Review: The Cheeriness of Those Gershwin Boys 2011-01-27T22:43:45Z He unpacks 19th-century novels, paintings and monuments, as well as dozens of bleak photographs placed within the text in a manner that recalls the dreaminess of Sebald. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Both the sound and the imagery in the lyrics suggest a kind of weightless, underwater dreaminess. Warpaint's patience is paying off 2011-03-18T22:10:00Z It was this combination of honesty and dreaminess that I’m still really into. Why Ethiopian director Yared Zeleke is generating buzz with 'Lamb,' his first film 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Anne’s schoolroom rival and eventual love interest, Gilbert Blythe, played by Jonathan Crombie, managed to combine dreaminess and respectfulness—traits that stayed with many of us forever. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z He moves seamlessly among Martin’s customary modes: blissful dreaminess, nervous scheming and slowly growing alarm when his absurd plans go sideways. ‘Moone Boy,’ a Comedy Series With Chris O’Dowd, on Hulu 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Ned Beauman's prodigiously clever and energetically entertaining novel, Boxer, Beetle, is astringently funny about the absurdity, dreaminess and strange aggressive vitality of the English fascists. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z In Ms. Argerich’s towering early traversal of Chopin’s Sonata No. 3, the Largo stands out, beginning stonily then receding into almost dissolving dreaminess, and on from there in great tidal waves of approach and release. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z It does have a dreaminess, though this registers mainly as sluggishness and sloppiness, compounded by the way that boots blunt ballet footwork. Review: Dreamy Cowboys and a Ballet Bath 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps more to the point, Hancock was praised for a "distinctive approach" characterized by "delicate dreaminess" and a tendency to "investigate" rather than just play. Herbie Hancock will 'swing' Gershwin with SSO 2011-11-18T00:44:04Z But their dreaminess is a case of form meeting function; her films are about vagueness, her characters typically in transition and stymied by uncertainty. Film: It?s What She Knows: The Luxe Life 2010-12-10T22:53:00Z Certainly the many fans of Cumberbatch will swoon to his youthful dreaminess. TV Picks: 'Hawking,' 'Golden Globe Awards,' 'Babylon' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But Twombly was drawn to the dreaminess of those big boys – their debts to surrealism, their Jungian notions of "myth". Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z The biggest difference between Ms. Wilson’s songs and those of her teenage idols is the absence in her lyrics of a drifting poetic dreaminess. Rita Wilson at Café Carlyle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The wonderful Rebecca Naomi Jones’s virginal, apprehensive Laurey is steeped in a combination of dreaminess, raw terror and independent-minded pragmatism that seems to say so much about where America was then — and is now. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Then his tone receded into pearly dreaminess before ending in a shivery trill. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It shifts seamlessly from robust silliness to sensual dreaminess, as the mind tends to through the course of successive whiskies. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The aural and visual dreaminess is at odds with flashing ambulance lights, a reminder that not everyone survived the day without incident. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z The dreaminess of the passage is its stylistic trademark, but there are other, less woozy ways to say that bitter experience toughens Tsukuru into a new man. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z All the stories seemed drawn up by the grass and trees and midsummer spaces rolling over the Edge; drawn up in a dreaminess of bees in wild thyme in nature's telling. Country diary: Wenlock Edge: A festival of ale, honeysuckle shadows and ancient tales 2012-07-24T19:59:01Z Another key problem is that the movie, though appealingly shot in gradations of dreaminess and realism by cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler, is trapped between character study and avenging thriller, leaving both sides starved for oxygen. Review: 'The Marsh King’s Daughter' toggles between drama and thriller, shortchanging both 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z My quibble with the photo is that the long exposure left a little softness in the lights across the lake, but the whole image is shimmering with such dreaminess, I don’t even mind. Lake Chelan reflects the Northern Lights in this wow-worthy reader photo 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Few groups were as well suited to their time as CSNY, embodying both the laid-back dreaminess and the pent-up social anger of the period. David Crosby, who embodied the Woodstock generation, dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z His work still evokes the dreaminess and serendipity of a stroll through the streets. Kenny Rivero’s Tricks of the Eye 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Hatching punctuates that dreaminess with sobering reminders of how crushing Tinja’s life before the monster was. Hatching finds horror in grotesque acts of self-care and violence 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z It reflects a romanticism and dreaminess which echoes her life. In pictures: Hidden depths of a life lived 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Silver and screenwriter Susan Sandler, she added, “manage to combine a down-to-earth, contemporary outlook with the dreaminess of a fairy tale.” Joan Micklin Silver, barrier-breaking director of ‘Crossing Delancey,’ dies at 85 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “I liked the dreaminess of it,” he says. How Charlie Kaufman made the summer's most mind-bending film 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Daddy is very different from The Girls, its style more crisp than the earlier novel’s dreaminess. Emma Cline: 'We are forced to imagine what’s going on in the minds of men' 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “Not to overstate it, but I think there’s a little bit of hope in those things, and a little bit of dreaminess,” he says. We toured Cabot's breathtaking St. Lucia site to get a first look at its new Coore and Crenshaw course - Golf Digest 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z It usually takes the gift of hindsight and time to be able to bottle up all the dreaminess of growing up, falling in love and sending it off into the world. The best things to see, drink and do in the D.C. area in March 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “To be honest, I really don’t remember much about the round,” he said — a sure sign of dreaminess. At British Open, Irishman Shane Lowry brings the noise with a third-round 63 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The sweet melancholy dreaminess of Botticelli’s Madonna of the Pomegranate is relevant to all people in all times. Beyoncé meets Botticelli: how tabloid photos throw new light on old masters 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a show of light and nature, biology and dreaminess. TravelLab: In a forest on the trail of synchronous fireflies 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z For discerning moviegoers, the affably disorienting “Hermia & Helena” might just be the right kind of midsummer night’s dreaminess. 'Hermia & Helena' links Buenos Aires and New York City in a lyrical midsummer flight of the soul 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Of course, in retrospect, the sequence’s abstract dreaminess seems almost rudimentary. In the age of streaming TV, who needs title sequences? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Davies is a master of the slow build, lyrically evoking the dreaminess and gravity of his subject and her verse. Review | ‘A Quiet Passion’ explores the contradictions of poet Emily Dickinson’s life 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z That blending of cinema and a sense of dreaminess was what first attracted Bellemare to a career in sound from an early age. Meet the Oscar-nominated sound editor who helped 'Arrival' sound like no other alien movie 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The flashbacks gave filmmakers a tool that was lacking on stage — while the dreaminess of those flashbacks pack a certain sneaky power. How Rooney Mara's incendiary 'Una' will advance the sexual-assault conversation at Telluride, Toronto and into Oscar season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Clinton’s bid for president may not have the dreaminess of Barack Obama’s, but it’s on track to be every bit as historic. President Hillary Clinton would be historic. Let's not lose sight of that | Lucia Grave 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Son of immigrants with an inspiring, up-from-nothing story of gauzy American dreaminess? The stupid party swallowed Bobby Jindal: Why his campaign was doomed from the start 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Though perhaps, too, there was something of the Highland spirit he laid claim to in that: an independent-mindedness with the charm, an obduracy alongside the slight dreaminess. Death of a Liberal 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Fans also get another taste of the dreaminess of Ansel Elgort’s Augustus Waters, whose metaphorical cigarette explanation and sarcasm truly explains why Hazel falls so hard for him. New Trailer for The Fault in Our Stars Shows Lighter Side of The Tearjerker 2014-04-28T19:53:48Z It is but a sad review, but it may serve well to reconcile the majority of womankind to the tranquil dreaminess of obscurity. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z They silent are; but not the less In this most tranquil hour, Of deep, unbroken dreaminess, They own that Love and Power, Which like the softest sunshine rests, On every leaf and flower. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z However, they were mellow, dreaming days, and an atmosphere of peaceful dreaminess seemed to pervade them all—like the calm before a storm. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z In the dreaminess of our fatigue, we next visited a bead factory, and inspected some of its delicate operations. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z I inhaled in and in—I choked a little—and then lay back with a dreaminess that was not simulated, for it had made me feel giddy. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z His thin lips parted contemptuously, and showed his threatening teeth, while his blue eyes, gentle almost to dreaminess, became blood-streaked, and almost started from their sockets. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z But the old soft dreaminess was changed to-day for that wistful, troubled look that had grown of late, and in the depths of the deep blue eyes there was a new sadness. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z So Hurst broke from the dreaminess of his love reverie and plunged into the gay conversation about him. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z Even as he denigrates civic utopianism, a different kind of dreaminess underwrites Sinclair's own position: a longing for a London that might well never have been. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z His outward appearance was the same, but there was a rapt, dreaminess pervading his actions and speech, and for the greater portion of the time he would be silent. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z Cyril Mallow’s was the first case to be taken that morning, and the preliminaries were soon settled; but all the while the dreaminess of the scene seemed to Luke to be on the increase. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The title of the play is not misleading, the action being pervaded and, as it were, impregnated by, steeped in, dreaminess. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z There was a sort of dreaminess in the way grandpapa spoke, as if his thoughts were looking back somehow far beyond his words. The Palace in the Garden 2011-06-17T02:00:20.540Z If you are NOT a master, deserving of the 22 you bear, you will be asked to DO things; you will be reproved for dreaminess and mooning about. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z By degrees, however, a change came over her; her whole manner softened, there was a gentle dreaminess even in her caprice and when she smiled it was often with tears in her eyes. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z She did not think of returning at once; the great tension of her nerves had suddenly given way to vague dreaminess--the danger was not over but postponed. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z But his “nocturnes,” a form of music highly developed if not actually created by him, remain all but unrivalled for their tenderness and dreaminess of conception, combined with a continuous flow of beautiful melody. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z How exciting to see whether the author, in his quite natural desire to have a little more wine, will succeed in penetrating his host's dreaminess and absorption in the an�sthetics of the Belgian Army. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Faults most likely; dreaminess without practical application, diffusion and waste of time, hoping things will "turn up." Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z It was not a photograph, but a little crayon head—the head of a handsome man, whose expression was a singular combination of dreaminess and alertness. Louisiana 2011-02-18T03:00:21.217Z How I wish we could go back to that time, with all its dreaminess and all its castle-building. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z The last words were spoken with a certain dreaminess of expression very new to Waldemar. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z There lay within them the old dreaminess and the old sadness. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z There was something in his look of the old boyish dreaminess. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z I lived a long time in the house; that alone I know; I say I know, but still I am uncertain; still Pierre, still the—oh the dreaminess, the bewilderingness—it never entirely leaves me. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z He had inherited much of his father's religious concentration and dreaminess of manner. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z It was, no doubt, these habits which imparted to her face an expression at the same time of audacity and dreaminess. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z But presently he noticed in them a return of the preoccupation, the vague dreaminess, that had been about her when she first appeared. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z She smoothed her hair, which she wore parted Madonna fashion, and let her arm droop over the side of the chair in idle dreaminess. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Then gradually her zeal evaporated, and a gentle dreaminess stole over her. The Undying Past Indeed, I half suspect that the soil might be left quietly to rear weeds till that time; and as to dreaminess, it signifies nothing if there be a strong "physique." The Fortunes Of Glencore All artifice, all self-centred dreaminess, all the littler charms, dropped from her. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Combined with Celtic melancholy and dreaminess, he had also inherited, without doubt, some unhealthiness of mind. Lafcadio Hearn Pilgrim was always the more ready and skilful workman of the two; for Lenz, with all his undoubted ability, has a certain fanciful dreaminess of character. Edelweiss A Story How it was in other times, when one could live on in undisturbed dreaminess, we can hardly imagine. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine In the dreaminess of her reverie she started suddenly. In the Whirl of the Rising By degrees the sense of dreaminess was fading, and alarm began to stir in the deeps of his mind. The Tree of Life The dull, uninteresting hotel furniture covered in red velvet—an uninviting red that repelled dreaminess and peace! The Heart of a Woman But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women There came a certain dreaminess into the woman's eyes, which, if a little dimmed, had by no means lost their luster. When the Cock Crows There was no longer a dreaminess and doubt about his words and movements, but all was prompt, energetic, and directly to the purpose. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 There is something peculiarly sweet to us about a certain mystical dreaminess and obscurity in these wild wood tribes, which we never wish to have brought out into the daylight of absolute knowledge. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The gladness of our Southern spring; the grace Of summer; and the dreaminess of fall Are parts of her sweet nature.—Such a face Was Ruth's, methinks, divinely spiritual. Weeds by the Wall Verses But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women "I—I didn't mean to push her into the water——" "It was an accident," said Patty, coming back out of her dreaminess. The Making of Mona Meditation is not abstraction, nor is devotion dreaminess. The Prayers of St. Paul There is no harm, I think, in a certain dreaminess in children. My Autobiography A Fragment Fearless, outspoken, and quick, Poppy had none of Penelope's dreaminess, or Esther's anxiousness, or Angela's timidity. The Carroll Girls But Dorothy ceased to move at all, and the dreaminess left her gaze, which had now become breathlessly alert and strained. Dorothy's House Party I should have made him a good wife and roused him out of that dreaminess he allowed to hang about him. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia And after her departure the dreaminess of a warm fall afternoon settled down upon the house and its inhabitants. Say and Seal, Volume I Eliezer's blue eyes were full of tears, his delicate features full of dreaminess and rapture; Meir stood erect, his burning eyes fixed on the sky, and his brow contracted as if in anger. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story There is a harder outline now about her mouth, less of dreaminess in the eyes, more of cold hauteur in the whole face. Macaria She must have infected me with her dreaminess, for I, too, read nothing and just dreamed. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories The dreaminess which had been upon him when the journey began, and before he sank into the contented slumber, returned. The Rider of Waroona Her eyes were opened very wide, but instead of brilliance or alertness, they spoke of sentiment and dreaminess. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Freida smiled, and touched his head gently; but by and by her eyelids drooped, and her whole face took the expression of sweet dreaminess again. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story There is a species of dreaminess in the air. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley It all appeals to the warmth, color, and dreaminess in your happy imagination. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines “I’ll have help,” was the calm reply, as the dreaminess of the poet and mystic stole over the rugged face. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan He admired Lady C—— very much, because, he said, her beauty expressed purity, peace, dreaminess, giving the idea that she had never inspired or experienced aught but holy emotions. My Recollections of Lord Byron She lost a little of her gaiety, and irritated the serious Considine by her dreaminess at the time when she was supposed to be acquiring useful knowledge. The Tragic Bride He collected his thoughts the best that he could in his state of dreaminess and brief hallucinations in the dark, blowing mustiness of the confines of the empty room. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The dreaminess passed away and she looked quickly in her betrothed’s eyes. Witness to the Deed As the last words were spoken, a peculiar dreaminess of expression stole over his careworn face, as if a throng of gracious memories had lifted for a moment the burden of his life. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan “How you do run on!” said Mother, mechanically, placid dreaminess in her face as she listened to the violin that like a river bore the flotsam of Hungarian and Jewish voices. The Innocents A Story for Lovers They could still have conversed, by direct sound or by helmet-radio, but the devil-killer seemed to subdue the impulse, and for a while caused a dreaminess that shortened the long wait... The Planet Strappers She had in her a certain idealistic dreaminess, an intense love of the beautiful in life. Mufti The moon sailed over the treetops, and a ghostly dreaminess lulled every sense, not to sleep, but to languid repose. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Thou calm retreats, farewell, Where my days in the wilderness Of languor and of love did tell And contemplative dreaminess; And thou, youth's early inspiration, Invigorate imagination And spur my spirit's torpid mood! Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse His vagueness and dreaminess gathered themselves into gravity. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Brewer's music has little fondness for climaxes, but in a tender pathos that is not tragedy, but a sort of lotos-eater's dreaminess and regret, he is congenially placed. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In Elizabeth Eleanor's manner there was a morbid languor and dreaminess, put on, some said, for her lover like a Greek gown, and surely encouraged by him and pictured in his Dantesque creations. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers There was a soft dreaminess floating over the opaque orbs, like the dissolving mist of a summer’s morning, that appeared but the cloudiness of thought. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel They are preceded or followed by a state of languor or dreaminess, by a species of depression, and even by stupor. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing We talk about the mystical Germans, but German self-conscious mysticism is like a problem of Euclid beside the natural, unexpressed dreaminess of the Czech. The Gypsies Her eyes were soft and limpid, and they held an expression of dreaminess in their depths. Phyllis A Twin The noisy good-humor of yesterday badly concealed the resolve that despised death, just as the dreaminess of to-day openly betrayed the happiness that filled his heart. Debts of Honor Jessie was a practical, energetic young lady, whose blue eyes never relapsed into the dreaminess to which that color is subject. The Old Folks' Party 1898 Clare's wistful dreaminess had vanished now, and she was bright and animated. The Carved Cupboard Professor Fortescue noticed, as Hadria looked down, a peculiar dreaminess of expression, and something indefinable, which suggested a profoundly emotional nature. The Daughters of Danaus His aspect was at once gentle and jaded, and, from the moment of seating himself, increasing in tired abstraction and dreaminess. The Confidence-Man Contemplation, you see, has no very close connection with dreaminess and idle musing: it is more like the intense effort of vision, the passionate and self-forgetful act of communion, presupposed in all creative art. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People In leaving she wondered why Mr. Dugdale woke from his dreaminess to bid her good-night with a fatherly air, addressing her more than once by his superlative of kindness, "My child." Agatha's Husband A Novel Again the old man paused, dreaminess on his gentle face. The Pirate Shark The next morning, I woke not only from the night's sleep, but from my waking dreaminess. From Plotzk to Boston Ruth had an element of romanticism in her character, which perhaps accounted for her dreaminess at times. The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film By his mother and sisters, for instance, his dreaminess was constantly noted. The Tragic Muse Then came a listless vacuity, a tawdry dreaminess. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 The dreaminess suddenly went out of Durkin's eyes, as he listened. Phantom Wires A Novel The coldness and the dreaminess were gone now, but her excitement was mingled with a great uncertainty. The Way of Ambition She would have them the most successful in a quality as far removed as might be from that quality of troubled dreaminess which is the best of the dramas of Mr. Yeats. Irish Plays and Playwrights The Princess Yasmini seemed to realize that neither King nor I were being drawn into the net of dreaminess that those trained women of hers were weaving. Caves of Terror Mingled with this, and perhaps springing from a similar mental habit, is an occasional dreaminess both in speculation and in narrative, when the mind seems to move vaguely round in vast returning circles. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg All the introspection and dreaminess and poetry of her face were gone, for the girl was, for the time, overbalanced on the physical side of her life. The Portion of Labor It has none of that theatricality which it is supposed to have, none of the dreaminess or the sentimentality with which Protestants endow it. None Other Gods They moved forward, the Sleeping Beauty maintaining an air of dreaminess, while Everychild simply could not remove his eyes from her—she was so perfect! Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old But there were no drum-beats yet, and the general effect was rather of dreaminess. Caves of Terror With a far-away dreaminess in his eyes he dipped his pen in the ink and commenced to write: 'Somewhere beyond the borders of life you are waiting. The Parts Men Play Within an hour he was walking rather quickly toward the sea, without one sign of the dreaminess that overweighed him when last he took the same road. The Romance of the Coast Those eyes, he felt, had looked upon unusual things; "dreaminess" was not an adequate description; "searching" conveyed it better. Four Weird Tales There is little dreaminess in the work of Mr. Tarbell and the growing number of his followers. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects He sprang to his feet; all the dreaminess of his attitude and mood had vanished; he pulled an arrow from his quiver fitted it to the string in readiness to shoot. The Princess Pocahontas Now and then, at Leipzig, at Dalenburg, at Bremen, at Berlin, we seemed to wake up; but soon sank back into feeble dreaminess again. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. And he told the judge in a richer brogue than usual that he was a painter subject to irresistible fits of dreaminess and must be excused. Kenny It looked as though many of the young ladies who prided themselves upon their bewitching languors and fashionable dreaminess, would be neglected by young men in favour of the more athletic types. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Throughout the play, two moods alternate in Holger, a certain grave, half-mystical dreaminess and bubbling through it, the high spirits of his natural boyish self. Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Her eyes narrowed occasionally with an effect of sudden dreaminess, and these momentary reveries seemed to the adoring Sylvia wholly fascinating. A Hoosier Chronicle "In this pervading dreaminess they have forgotten their materialism." The Colossus A Novel Their motion was so slow that the mind was lost in dreaminess in following it. The Brimming Cup In the more tender pieces, such as the nocturnes of Field and of Chopin, he played with the utmost dreaminess. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday After a short time, a lotuslike dreaminess stole over me, and past and future seemed to blend in a supreme present of contentment and rest. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall It causes a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening. Darwinism (1889) "If I could meet such a man as you are I could love him—'with a dreaminess of eye not characteristic of this strong, pragmatic family.'" The Colossus A Novel They all had a protesting laugh at this, startled for an instant from their dreaminess. The Brimming Cup The head was turned a little, and the eyes regarded something distant, with a half wishful, half deprecating dreaminess. A Daughter of To-Day Absorbed in his explanation he lost the drowsy incertitude of his speech and the dreaminess of his eyes. Septimus In subjectivity and dreaminess both Chateaubriand and Lamartine were like the German romanticists, but their fundamental note was theism, not pantheism. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times There is a dreaminess diffused about his thoughts; in a dream, as it were, he strikes the death-blow into his victim's heart and starts to find an indelible blood-stain on his hand. Twice Told Tales A sharp, subtle intellect too; and less of that shoreless Asiatic dreaminess than I have sometimes met with in her writings. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. In a state of profound dreaminess the soul leaves the body and lives in close fellowship with Brahman. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Under its influence a feverish dreaminess overtook him, alive with fancies and images. The Testing of Diana Mallory It looked as though his dreaminess were coming over him again. The Bishop and Other Stories As he paid the cabman and went up his stairs, he could not shake off his dreaminess; he saw the flames catching the village, and the forest beginning to crackle and smoke. The Darling and Other Stories In the valley there might be fog and the chill of the north, but on the mountains lay the warmth and the dreaminess of the south. The California Birthday Book Some of the dreaminess had gone out of the eyes, to be replaced by a luminous steadfastness of expression which had always been there, but was now greatly intensified. In the Days of Chivalry As nearly as I can express it, Mary was in love with love, and could no more help it than she could help the crease in her chin or the dreaminess of her eyes. Mary Minds Her Business As we have told already, the Morris dance is a bodily manifestation of vigour and rude health, and not at all of sinuous grace or dreaminess. The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England The effects of grief were to be seen in her aspect and movements, in her most pathetic smile, in her increased dreaminess, and the inertia against which she struggled in vain. Missing And so, reluctant to part from dreaminess, he built a new capital city for Egypt that he devoted to the worship of Aten. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America He still retained much of his boyish beauty, but the dreaminess and far-away vacancy had almost entirely left his eyes. In the Days of Chivalry The latter were the typical offspring of the French genius—positive, definite, materialistic; the former were impregnated with all the dreaminess, the mystery, and the romantic spirituality of the Celt. Landmarks in French Literature Forgetting the familiar landscape, she turned to face him with a laugh which chased all the dreaminess from her eyes. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book I was by degrees emerging from my boyish moods, with the exception of one--a tendency to metaphysical dreaminess, which was fated to do me much injury in after years. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters He was reluctant to part from continual dreaminess and to end the world of the child that saw magic in a waving leaf on a branch of a tree. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Possibly there was a dreaminess about her blue eyes that made up for her manner; but how Nino could love her I cannot understand. A Roman Singer Characteristic of Giorgione is the abstract thought, the dreaminess of look, the almost furtive glance. Giorgione But with the coming on of autumn the roses withered, and something of the old dreaminess left her eyes. A Tramp's Sketches It had lost some of its dreaminess, he thought, though it had gained in intellectual force. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life His ethereal dreaminess, moving and emblazoned with the sun, was an unrecognized form of experience. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Her eyes were still full of dreaminess and sleep. Without Dogma There is in the expression the dreaminess of the familiar face without its later sadness. McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Her naïveté they mistook for insolence, her dreaminess for disrespect. A Tramp's Sketches The Breton or Celtic imagination had peculiar qualities of dreaminess, and magic and mystery. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Experience was knowledge as intangible and ineffable as daydreams probably were; and yet this dreaminess was being indicted by Mrs. Dinosaur and usurped by her mathematical abstractions. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America All this, with the dreaminess of an early morning, had something unutterably soothing. Without Dogma "Now, Nurse, I may dress, may I not?" she exclaimed, radiant with animation, and all the languor and dreaminess gone over like a cloud from before the sun. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales A somewhat heavy dreaminess, and a great deal of obscurity, hang about this poem; and the effort required to dispel the darkness of the general scheme is not repaid when we discover what it hides. Famous Reviews A sense of delicious dreaminess overcame me, my muscles relaxed, and I was on the point of giving way to my desire to sleep when the sound of approaching horses reached my ears. A Princess of Mars In the dreaminess of her eyes, in the absent smile drifting round the corners of her full red lips, Gladys showed that her thoughts were pleasant and sentimental. The Cost The girl glanced up, with eyes slowly changing from far-away dreaminess to present and practical—pleasant blue eyes with lashes and brows of the same color as the thick, neatly done yellowish hair. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise There was a far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me. Dracula She was an ample, fresh-coloured, lively woman; and like her son only in being a kind soul: he got neither his mortal seriousness nor his dreaminess from her. The Flirt There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand. Tess of the d'Urbervilles "Psalms," first lesson—second ditto—prayers—thanksgivings—all reverently attended to; there is a little dreaminess settling on your lids—your lips begin to close with languor; but you have not dozed. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 And her face was ever changing, working too; it expressed, almost at the same time, irony, dreaminess, and passion. The Torrents of Spring There is a dreaminess diffused about his thoughts; in a dream, as it were, he strikes the death-blow into his victim's heart, and starts to find an indelible blood-stain on his hand. Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") His apathy, or it might have been abstraction, usually wore the outer look of dreaminess. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day The clinging fog oppressed us both with its drowsy dampness; and buried in the same unconscious dreaminess, we sat side by side like brother and sister. Dream Tales and Prose Poems Your eyes will close gently as flower-leaflets—your thoughts die away in a heavenly confusion—and then you doze!—neither sleeping nor waking, but absolved in delicious dreaminess! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 There was a dreaminess in her voice, as if she were repeating something she had heard or said before. From One Generation to Another A delicious dreaminess wrought its web about my yielding senses, while the snow-flakes wove a winding sheet about my conquered body. Roughing It, Part 4. Nevertheless I must tell you that your tendency to dreaminess, and your exalted ideas of sentiment, are what mostly constitute the modern young lady. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense She was sitting at a table in the drawing-room, and, with persistent dreaminess, gazing through the half-open door into the garden. Dream Tales and Prose Poems He was a poet, with a poet's dreaminess and waywardness, fierce alternations of light and shade, sorrow and joy. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts It was characteristic at once of her dreaminess and her powers of self-discipline that she was fairly orderly, though she had great difficulty in being so. The History of David Grieve Joan's eyes softened to a misty dreaminess before this aspect of the time to come. Lying Prophets Softness also, and a melancholy gift of dreaminess and reflection, enlarged and impressed the effect of a gaze and a smile which have conquered history. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War I do not remark this dreaminess in the notes of other birds, some crowing at an equal distance, others still further away. Birds in Town and Village Dreamy and inconclusive the poet sometimes, nay, often, cannot help being, for dreaminess and inconclusiveness are conditions of thought when dwelling on the very subjects that most demand poetical treatment. Obiter Dicta It chanced that Chopin and Slovaki, whose works showed most startling similarity, were also much alike in looks, in slenderness, dreaminess of feature, and even in expression of countenance. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 My uncle Lazare heard its wail in the dreaminess of his agony. International Short Stories: French More than once he made an effort to begin, but the old man, who brightened a little during their meal, relapsed again into dreaminess, and did not seem to be listening to him. Hyacinth The supposition that poets must be dreamers, because there is often much dreaminess in poesy, is a mere hypothesis. The Life of Lord Byron He had that livid dreaminess of the gambler who cheats. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Ida paused at the door with her book in her hand, startled from her dreaminess by the woman's tone and manner. At Love's Cost He had at all times displayed an anxious dreaminess, his eyes had ever sought far-away things, the unknown land where perfect satisfaction dwelt, yonder, behind the horizon. Fruitfulness He was unlike the moody Michael Angelo; unlike the gentle Raphael; unlike the fastidious Van Dyck who came long afterward; he was hail-fellow-well-met among his associates, though often given over to dreaminess. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People As yet the danger of impracticability, discouragement, confusion, and paralysis of all that had been hoped for, was but faintly indicated in the dreaminess and fancifulness of his nature. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 If he had been mine, I should have known what his dreaminess meant, why he loved to wander away and be alone; what was the conflict that began in his cradle—or earlier. Ideala He had no dreaminess; meditation was no part of his mental habit; a poetical fancy would, in him, have been an indication of insanity. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 What did pain them was the gentle dreaminess with which he performed his duties. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories He had no accusation, no despair, no dreaminess. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth It had dreaminess in it, intense attention, and something like sternness. Victory An Island Tale His slimness and gayety had disappeared as well as his dreaminess and versifying instincts. The Awakening of Helena Richie The father protested: he declared that the mother was encouraging the boy in his vacillation and dreaminess. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Pauline was pacing the deck apart from the others, in a pleasant dreaminess scanning the endless azure of the hashed waters. The Perils of Pauline For the rest, we readily conceded to these works a cheerful aversion from those exalted sentiments, which, by reason of their easy misapplication to life, are often open to the suspicion of dreaminess. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life The appearance of the monstrous Pedro with his news drew Ricardo out of a feeling of dreaminess wrapped up in a sense of impending trouble. Victory An Island Tale Such a power is the mark of the well-balanced mind, pursuing a via media between impulsiveness on the one hand, and dreaminess on the other. Bergson and His Philosophy He was a sallow, unhealthy-looking youth, with large prominent dark eyes and a melancholy dreaminess of expression, as if the whole ceremony, not to say the world itself, were distasteful. The Chaplet of Pearls With her limbs moving freely, rocked by the stream, playing with it, she yielded form and spirit alike to its soft motion, to the silence of the heavens, and the dreaminess of the melancholy banks. The Fortune of the Rougons Altogether there was a cultivated dreaminess about it that was no less exotic because studied. The Treasure-Train Armine really looked quite healthy, nothing remaining of his former ethereal air, but a certain expansiveness of brow and dreaminess of eye. Magnum Bonum Such Carlotta also indulged in, and they were easy to recognise, by the dreaminess of her eyes and the faint smile flickering about her lips. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The beauty and dreaminess of the Ave Maria flooded the air with loveliness. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story A new dreaminess had been added to her power and her buoyancy which, at times, made her very different from the radiant girl he had won. In the Wilderness The fortress of warrior-lords, the prison of a queen, the Royalist refuge—fallen now into such placid dreaminess of age. The Crown of Life The silence between them had come of the difficulty they both had in realising that they were together, of the dreaminess so strange an event had cast upon them. A Life's Morning "I'm not sure that I wish him to," said the painter's wife, her eyes straying as if in a sudden dreaminess. Will Warburton On Passion Day he fasted and received the Eucharist, Decius doing the like, though with a half-smiling dreaminess which contrasted with the other's troubled devotion. Veranilda There, was a dreaminess in the rest, too, which made it still more perfect and luxurious to repose in. North and South She, no less than Olga Hannaford, credited Kite with wonderful artistic powers; in their view, only his constitutional defect of energy, his incorrigible dreaminess, stood between him and great achievement. The Crown of Life He went back to his seat, and again fell into dreaminess. A Life's Morning Almost one might think the eyelids quivered, there is such an air of waking dreaminess. Beulah The pensive cast remained, but the dreaminess had sobered into thought and true hope. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 "Perhaps," said Brinkley, with a remote dreaminess, "she was truly sorry." April Hopes She was glad that companionship should render the little maiden more active and childlike, for Edward's abstraction had made her believe that there might be danger in indulging the dreaminess of the imaginative child. Clever Woman of the Family He could not overcome his intuition that, for all the peace and dreaminess of the outward world, destiny was upon him. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North He was not a prepossessing man by any means, but his bluish eyes had a charming look, of boy-like dreaminess, and his smile was even more child-like than his look. The Rise of David Levinsky The same sense of remote abstraction, of vague dreaminess, was overcoming him. Jeff Briggs's Love Story There was not nearly so much to do as one would have supposed, for, with all his dreaminess, he had been oddly neat and businesslike in all parish matters. Saint's Progress There was a certain amount of romantic dreaminess and caprice in her, but with the fantastic was mingled much that was strong and deep. The Idiot But a sort of blankness, even dreaminess, had begun by degrees to take possession of him; at moments he forgot himself, or rather, forgot what was of importance, and caught at trifles. Crime and Punishment And as she thought of that ‘rest’ a languorous dreaminess came upon her. The Man He was a very happy, joyous boy, leading an active, enterprising life, though so lonely as to occasion greater dreaminess and thoughtfulness than usual at such an early age. The Heir of Redclyffe But he continued to be "queer" and his absent-minded dreaminess was in evidence even then. Shavings There are in every generation youths like him, in unworldliness, wildness, and dreaminess, though unlike him, of course, in genius. Oxford He was a perfect sailor, and had that dreaminess in his nature which matches with nothing but the ripple of the waves. Oldport Days As I have said, Ursula sat knitting, but her eyes had a soft dreaminess. John Halifax, Gentleman I should like to think of the name being continued; and he’s a good business man, in spite of his dreaminess. All Roads Lead to Calvary I felt a numbness of body and mind—a dreaminess of sensation but this was all. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Thin, clear, sweet, dry, the desert air carried a languor, a dreaminess, tidings of far-off things, and an enthralling promise. The Last of the Plainsmen Our boatmen have the same habit, and there is a certain dreaminess about them, in whatever posture. Oldport Days Father Ambrose, his tutor, reported him of quick and excellent parts, but marred by a dreaminess which might grow into desidia that deadly sin. The Path of the King He went out, leaving his lordship pensive, those dreamy blue eyes of his intently studying Miss Bishop's face for all their dreaminess; his mind increasingly uneasy. Captain Blood Despite his dreaminess, he would sometimes surprise his friends with arts and even sports apart from his ordinary life, like memories of some previous existence. The Man Who Knew Too Much But the controlling attribute,—that which imparted individual character, colour and fascination to his acting,—was the thoughtful introspective habit of a stately mind, abstracted from passion and suffused with mournful dreaminess of temperament. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors Mrs. Baxter looked distressed, though, as the meal was about concluded, and William had partaken of his share in spite of his dreaminess, she had no anxieties connected with his sustenance. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William He could not discern how that, after he had left the music and dancing and begun to draw morals, attention faded from those eyes that seemed to watch him, and they filled with dreaminess. Lin McLean "What are you thinking of, Katharine?" he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone of dreaminess and the inapt words. Night and Day I am going on quietly here, rather than happily," writes he to his friend Newman; "sometimes quite helpless, not from distinct illness, but from sad thoughts and a ghastly dreaminess. Life of John Sterling No, despite its dreaminess, his soul ever remembered its celestial origin, and could not be diverted from the path of virtue. Dead Souls His profound distaste for this conversation was betrayed by an air of weariness darkening his energetic sun-tanned features, and by the augmented dreaminess of his eyes. Within the Tides |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。