For "Spring Awakening," that style is grounded in specific personal dramas that leave Mr. Sater enough room to wander into misty poetic realms, but with a stronger rock pulse.

"The Black Knight," "King Olaf" and "Caractacus" all used subjects from the misty realm of legend or dark-age history, which appealed so much to the late-Romantic imagination.

Without objective ways to verify their revolutionary claims, these imaginative theories of quantum gravity will remain rooted only in the misty realms of metaphysics.

In her medium-size canvases, an allover film of copper or silver is shadowed in places or laid over actual leaves or flower blossoms, creating a misty, visionary realm.

If "Serenade" belongs in a misty moonlit realm, then "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" (1972) suggests bright sunlight.

Since then mincemeat has mostly been relegated to the misty realms of nostalgia.

The group's six dancers might well have been tormented souls penitentially struggling in a misty realm from which there was no escape.

Ms. Zendora's dances appeared to take place in distant misty realms in which the choreographic landscapes were haunted by benign spirits.

His name had passed beyond history, across the boundaries of legend into the misty realms of myth.

She'd done what she'd needed to, in the misty realm of whatever it had been- spirit, shared dreaming, subconscious.