Alice possessed a vaporous cloud of wavy brown hair — her husband called it "big, sexy hair".
To do an archaeological dive into the newspaper clippings is to be reminded that intentional, willful stupidity descended like a vaporous cloud on everyone, from owners to union mates to sportswriters, to all of us fans.
In this extraordinary scene, he comes off as a burned-out, inhuman hulk whose sense of inescapable dependence — of being clay in Simone's hands and a plaything of his life's outer influences — results mainly from his actual existence being a sort of waking dream, a vague and vaporous cloud that serves solely to conceal the core of pathology, from himself and from others.
Sleeves blew up at the shoulders, as light and vaporous as clouds, but strips of fabric anchored the stand-away necklines.
Yet within a tight artistic framework, made vaporous by clouds of dry ice billowing from above, the designer created an exceptional range of soft-and-hard textures: what looked like organza beside jute and black leather, along with draped white tops and inserts of nylon.
Small wonder that this vast, dispersed network of interdependent data systems has lately come to be referred to by an appropriately atmospheric — and vaporous — metaphor: the cloud.
Somewhere ahead Skellig Michael was shrouded in low clouds and vaporous marine air.
Many present and former U.S. diplomats have also used their office and authority to help enshroud Soviet communism in a dangerous explosive cloud of vaporous arguments and illusions.
Rumsey's book poses a vital question: As more and more of what we know, make and experience is recorded as vaporous bits in the cloud, what exactly will we leave behind for future generations?
The Story of My Teeth originally came to readers as the work of Gustavo Sánchez Sánchez, and it comes to a wider audience as an autobiography by a character called Gustavo Sánchez Sánchez, but repeatedly, this persona is picked apart, revealed to be nothing more than a vaporous disguise or a cloud of hot air.
