dreaminess

Ironically, at this show, gracefuleigh overheard college girls discussing Paul Giamatti's general dreaminess, which is the sort of news I could have used back in the day, being more balding and petulant than tall and Wolverinish.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

But their dreaminess is a case of form meeting function; her films are about vagueness, her characters typically in transition and stymied by uncertainty.

NYT > Home Page By DENNIS LIM 2010

Looking at the slim figure moving in the shimmering light, a kind of dreaminess to her presence, Figg shook his head.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

It starts off, doesn't it, with that kind of dreaminess you get when you're killing time, getting bored, you know, just making things up, and then gradually grows to a sort of climax of hallucinatory despair.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987

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

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

Her last words were said with a kind of dreaminess, as though they had no purpose; but though she sat now idly looking into the valley beneath,

Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Her last words were said with a kind of dreaminess, as though they had no purpose; but though she sat now idly looking into the valley beneath, I could see that her eyes had a peculiar glance, which was presently turned on Roscoe, then withdrawn again.

Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

Her last words were said with a kind of dreaminess, as though they had no purpose; but though she sat now idly looking into the valley beneath, I could see that her eyes had a peculiar glance, which was presently turned on Roscoe, then withdrawn again.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

The cheerful, decided, and practical nature of Rameses was averse to every kind of dreaminess or self-absorption, and no one had ever seen him, even in hours of extreme weariness, give himself up to vague and melancholy brooding; but now he would often sit gazing at the ground in wrapt meditation, and start like an awakened sleeper when his reverie was disturbed by the requirements of the outer world around him.

Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867

The cheerful, decided, and practical nature of Rameses was averse to every kind of dreaminess or self-absorption, and no one had ever seen him, even in hours of extreme weariness, give himself up to vague and melancholy brooding; but now he would often sit gazing at the ground in wrapt meditation, and start like an awakened sleeper when his reverie was disturbed by the requirements of the outer world around him.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867