Crossword-Solution: VAPORINGS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Along with killing and drunkenness, coveting of women, charity, simplicity, there is a certain indifference, blankness, emptiness if you will, of all vaporings, no bubbling of the pot,--it wants the German to coin a word for that,--no bread-envy, no brother-fervor.

Poetic phantasmagoria, frequently the vaporings of morbid visionaries, is the material out of which these scholars construct the theologic system of the Rabbis, and fairy tales, the spontaneous creations of the people, which take the form of sacred legend in Jewish literature, are denominated the Scriptural exegesis of the Rabbis, and condemned incontinently as nugae rabbinorum.

Men who had found Lamarck's conception of change through voluntary effort ridiculous, and the vaporings of the Vestiges altogether despicable, men whose scientific cautions held them back from Spencer's deductive argument, took eager hold of that tangible, ever-present principle of natural selection, and were led on and on to its goal.

The sublimely terrible roar of the lioness that has been deprived of her cubs is dramatically as far above her customary whine and purr as the kingly and transcendent utterances of Lear are above the level of his senile vaporings.

All other sentiments merely serve to harden it; all the metallic agencies that compose it--sensuality, vanity, every vice, every species of ambition, all the frantic outbursts and melancholy vaporings of his youth--are violently commingled and fused together in the revolutionary mold, so that his soul may take the form and rigidity of trenchant steel.