(n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Makarska offers up some fairly lively beach bars, with vodka and Red Bull prices at a troublingly low level – so the revelry continued.
(2) We know Miley Cyrus has at least made it to the event after a night of revelry in Amsterdam's coffee shops .
(3) Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison for the Guardian Katrin and Raffaele Ausanio, the couple running the kitchen, said it was much easier feeding people during the week-long revelry of the funfair, because then they had a team of waiters to help.
(4) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others.
(5) "A jubilant burst of celebrations in London and all over the country officially marks the start of the jubilee week revelries.
(6) Did you ever get together with all the punk females for an afternoon of revelry?
(7) It seems the stumble was caused by an excess of West End revelry rather than a fight to get to the front of the queue.
(8) Perla (right) and Elizabeth Ovitz: as the five sisters and two brothers were all good-looking and musically gifted, the stage seemed the perfect career However, Perla Ovitz insisted that she and her family never took part in the "nightlife" of the death camp: they never performed in these drunken revelries, never sang in public nor entertained parties of kapos and SS men.
(9) Superb footage from northeastern Brazil of a Meracatu group - a "fusion of pre-existing forms of Carnival revelry", of Afro-indigenous origin.
(10) What this one word "barista" captures, in an intense shot, is a shift away from drunken revelry.
(11) His tours overseas for the council, many of which reappeared transmogrified in his novels, were invariably marked by unscheduled revelry, as well as by serious literary discussions.
(12) Meanwhile, Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the Labour, was returning from a night of partying at Glastonbury festival, having posted pictures of his revelry on social media.
(13) Past midnight and into the early hours of Saturday morning, there is no tangible upsurge in threat and no sign of the revelry abating.
(14) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others," Obama said.
(15) Photograph: Reuters Even in the state of Pernambuco, the epicenter of the Zika outbreak and a historic hub of Carnival revelry, officials said tourism has not been hit.
(16) And now a Saturday night of revelry in central London .
(17) In Manhattan, and across America, “huge, light-hearted throngs ambled down autoless streets.” Earth Day had been born, an outburst of protest – and revelry – that involved everyone from save-the-whales activists to opponents of new freeways.
(18) Usually, these cruises are said to be lively enough, but we were on the Hit The Deck Tour, celebrating the start of summer, where the revelry both on and off board was set to be several notches higher; to this end enormous speaker systems, booming out David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia, had been placed on all the boats.
Revery
Definition:
(n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
(n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
(n.) Same as Reverie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
(2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
(3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
(4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
(5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
(6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
(7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
(8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
(9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
(11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
(12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
(13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
(15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
(16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
(17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
(18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
(19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
(20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.