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vaporous

adjective as in foggy

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adjective as in fanciful

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Movie scripts, like vexed suitors, struggle to pin down a vaporous lover.

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In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

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“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,” Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.

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Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.”

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"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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