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Answer for the clue "What would excite them? Big heaven? It never came to pass ", 15 letters:
might-have-been

Alternative clues for the word might-have-been

Word definitions for might-have-been in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event that could have occurred but never did

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.

Usage examples of might-have-been.

Sometimes they surfaced in his words, the scars of unfought battles and unfinished deaths, merciless might-have-beens.

In this subduing Draught of tender green And kindly Absinth, with its wimpling Sheen Of dusky half-lights, let me drown The haunting Pathos of the Might-Have-Been.

She wished that Mirya were still with her: she had some questions to ask her about maybes and about might-have-beens.

If he’d thought I’d spent the last two years mooning over him and mourning all the might-have-beens, his thinking had now been properly adjusted.