Are we still dreaming big dreams in America?

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a DNC Event

Belamant is still dreaming big.

FORBES: Great Expectations

If I did fall on my face, I am obviously still concussed and dreaming.

BBC: The trainee

Platt must have still been day-dreaming about his try a few minutes later though as Cooper Vuna took advantage of the full-back's indecisiveness to get his fingertips to a bouncing ball before a late penalty from Joel Taufa'ao gave Tonga a narrow advantage going into half-time.

BBC: Tonga 22-20 Ireland

He would build not only wealth for himself but a better life for the doctors and schoolteachers in distant provinces, still living in run-down, vermin-infested apartments and dreaming of raising their kids in solid houses, if only Russia could grow a robust mortgage industry.

NEWYORKER: The Repatriates

In our collective cultural imagination, however, Oxbridge means the dreaming spires - a kind of massive Bullingdon Club where rich undergraduates still flaunt their boaters and blazers, and dotty dons get sozzled every night on the college port (while hoping to avoid the Inspector Morse-style murders in the quad).

BBC: A Point of View: The Oxbridge interview

Now the Yankees have been forced to temper their expectations, to stop dreaming about what he could have been and just hope that he can still be something useful.

WSJ: One Thing Is Certain: Pineda's Gut Is Gone

Granted, they are still far from the humanoid machines described by another science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov - capable of dreaming and getting people to fall in love with them.

BBC: Future tech: Smart fabrics and other forecasts