"dream" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But he also allowed himself a nostalgic, and uncharacteristically personal, moment - noting that his foray into China was something of a bookend for a career that began with a college sophomore's quixotic dream.
- The first is her criminal case: did she hatch the bizarre scheme to defraud the government in order to fund her quixotic dream of running a scholarly magazine?
- Progress in establishing a local farmers' market, a quixotic dream of long standing that finally received start-up money from the State Legislature last year, is another.
- So it is fitting that this piece of waterfront would attract people with big - or perhaps quixotic - dreams.
- "The Czechs have a rich literary heritage," said Mr. Wechsler, 48, who gave up a law career in Boston to pursue his quixotic dream.
- Dismantlement was never the goal; indeed, the quixotic dream of the meritocrats was to make the meritocracy ever more elaborate and all-encompassing by continually adding new and better tests and procedures, until finally perfection was achieved.
- Pelfrey's much-anticipated season debut was only slightly better than the weather, but he kept the Mets in the game long enough to dash the Washington Nationals' quixotic dreams of winning a second consecutive game.
- Laboulaye had the quixotic dream, in April of 1865, that, if government by the people was ever reëstablished in France, it might be nice for the two nations to build a statue to their shared ideals-maybe a female figure of freedom with a slave's broken shackles at her feet.
- If this quixotic dream of education, restoration and renewal falls through, one suspects they will accept that, too.
- Forget the full cut of von Stroheim's Greed, or Orson Welles's studio-thwarted The Other Side of the Wind, or Kubrick's Napoleon, a quixotic dream tragically abandoned after years of painstaking research.
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