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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

His musical signature was still in formation but is, by all accounts, vaporously evident in the sloppily scrawled bars of the quartet.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2022

There are some juicy new bits, not least the sinister moment when Epstein sneaks vaporously into the offices of the Daily Beast to threaten Brown over the publication of stories about him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2022

Opposite the leather sofa where I sat was a suite of works by the artist Dan Colen, pieces as vaporously ambiguous as a Rorschach test.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

As he came to her side she raised her head and breathed "Good night!" to that ghostly essence which she conceived was floating vaporously in the upper air and slipped her arm in his.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca