Примеры употребления для castles in the air
1. "Our most important task at the present moment," wrote Lewis Mumford in 1'22, "is to build castles in the air." Try raising that the next time you‘re doorstepped by an election campaigner.
2. Instead of constitutional treaties of great beauty, verbal castles in the air and a mood of fear about globalisation, it is to be about better markets, migration and daily life.
3. Once the development of these systems is completed, and the problem of tunnels under the fence is solved, we shall have nothing more to worry about, and will be able to turn 100 percent of Judea and Samaria over to Mahmoud Abbas, or if he his not there at that time, retreat from the areas unilaterally and implement Olmert‘s original realignment dream, and turn Israel into a "fun place to live." These are all castles in the air, or castles built on sand.