dreamery

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 G. Stanley Hall 1885

That was a rightwing fiesta, including a graf coming after the summary of the Democrats response to the Prez that was an almost perfect piece of punditland dreamery, with intimations of Broder marvelously woven into it:

Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda in Iraq 2007

Its hard clear outlines, and perhaps somewhat bleak atmosphere, seem to have resulted from a sort of reaction against the sentimental “dreamery” begotten of his Gossensass experiences.

Hedda Gabler 2006

Its hard clear outlines, and perhaps somewhat bleak atmosphere, seem to have resulted from a sort of reaction against the sentimental “dreamery” begotten of his Gossensass experiences.

Hedda Gabler 2006

"Is not the distinction between mysticism, the mysticism which is of truth, and mere dreamery, or the institution of imaginations for realities, exactly this, that mysticism may be translated into logic?"

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

These powers may now, if ever, blossom forth; they have been wasted too long in patriotic feeling and in idle dreamery.

The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge

Being the boy he was, he was destined somehow to dwell half the time in a world of dreamery; and I have tried to express how, when he had once got enough of villany, he reformed his ideals and rather liked virtue.

Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878

Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of Hawthorne's, in the tale of “Old Esther Dudley,”

A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of

A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

The Future when the Past is not, the Present merest dreamery;

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855