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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.

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.

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

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

"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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