One would almost think that the West had only just had news of that victory, as it had just learned of the conquest of Jerusalem, and that the purpose of the company of statues that now was mustering in the glimmering recesses of cathedral porches was to reveal to men as living presences the figures of their collective dreams.4 (religion-online.org)
I don't know about y ’ all the more and more I think about it, the less and less our collective dream of Hitch getting «promoted» or even just let go altogether seems like even a possibility. (sbnation.com)