And such subtlety extends to the soundtrack, which has a shivery,
metallic ghostliness that's governed by a memorable and uncharacteristically menacing score by John Williams.
The vintage - style cutout illustrations, almost entirely done in shades of blue, convey Leo's
ghostliness and work well with the clever design.
And in ghastly, aghast and the whole family of related words ---- ghostly,
ghostliness, ghastliness, ghostbusters and so on?
A reading of entries from an online support site for parents who feel an uncanny and unspeakable sense of a child being missing finds a woman describing a perception of
ghostliness - an ineffable, simultaneous presence and absence of a child.
Jessica Morgan sees these immaculately articulated forms as «amplifications,» while Jean - Pierre Criqui responds to just the opposite:
their ghostliness.
He wants to echo and to reinforce
the ghostliness of bourgeois houses in those long northern nights.
His strange, sepulchral artworks evoke all
the ghostliness of gothic novels or early horror flicks, yet appear curiously modern too
The swirls create tonal variations from precision to
ghostliness.
We see run - down infrastructure and solitary figures, but amongst
the ghostliness there is hope, too, that these buildings can be appreciated as sites of national and civic importance.
And this painting, being in white text on a white ground, has a sense of dissolution or
ghostliness to it that I think communicates the feeling of absence maybe that that text suggests.
[Here's another insect even more exuberant in
its ghostliness: The crazy camouflage of a lichen katydid]