Sentences with phrase «as ghostly»

Each figure appears as a ghostly double; even the photographic representation of Brandes herself acts as the artist's doppelgänger.

Gallaccio's new sculptural commission will reinstate the missing tree in stainless steel, appearing as a ghostly negative form.

The show is a gathering of recent and vintage print editions — from 1982 to 2015 — by the L.A. pop artist, including his inscrutable word - and - image pieces, which he has produced throughout his career, as well as his ghostly prints of ships from the 1980s.

In the dim light of this narrow passage, it was impossible for the photographer to stop the motion of the restless children, who appear as ghostly blurs moving barefoot across the cobblestones.

Some images are mirrored, while others, more subtlety play out as ghostly echoes of shadow and form.

Some are all the more vivid as ghostly silhouettes.

The game's description on the store also encourages players to explore the VR world, «Don't leave any stone unturned as ghostly surprises await your discovery.»

A brief trailer shows him making cheerful conversation with one of his subjects, inquiring about his childhood as a ghostly figure appears by him, presumably one of the «layers» that Franz is channeling.

Think of them as the ghostly shadows of players in parallel dimensions for now.

Nearly all the walls of the apartment are covered with art, including works by the wonderfully wiseass Alejandro Gonzáles, who has a series of sparkling photographs of megaprojects the Cuban government never finished, such as the ghostly Juragua nuclear power plant decaying somewhere off the coast.

He relies much on his senses to see, and now he sees her, feels her presence, not as a ghostly apparition overwhelming the tiny space of his cottage, nor as a thought occupying his mind, but as a longing on the verge of utterance, incarnation.

At times the director seems to channel the stark, meditative gaze of Carl Theodor Dreyer, Robert Bresson and other saints of European cinema, as well as the ghostly poetry of such Japanese classics as Kenji Mizoguchi's «Ugetsu.»

As you travel through the world, you can look at dead players» blood stains and see their deaths play out as ghostly apparitions, providing hints as to what might lie around the next bend.

That said, all three of those qualities make this a fairly distinctive and effective chiller from the norm, as the ghostly visions that haunt the crew of a U.S. submarine just ratchet up the tension that exists within the group and is further intensified when they pick up the three survivors of a sunken British ship — not to mention the ongoing threat of German attack.

There's nothing quite as iconic here as the ghostly handclaps behind Lili Taylor in the first one, and only fleeting glimpses of co-stars Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), Franka Potente, and Simon McBurney.

As ghostly visitors ourselves, we are given privy to a leisurely first person tour of the vast estate in a mind - blowing single take that remains uncut for the film's entire running time.

Bringing in a new cast for the movie, The Phantom of the Opera stars Gerald Butler as the ghostly form who haunts the Paris Opera House.

Lincoln often appears in the film as the irresistible monument to folksy decency that we know from the simplified myths of our school history books, and Spielberg exploits these scenes for all their iconic worth, often visualizing the president as a ghostly totem burdened by the secret knowledge of his pivotal destiny in the story of American reform.

Similarly, Vanessa resurfaces throughout the film as a ghostly presence, to push Deadpool toward a more moral life and, in effect, make literal the trope of the lover whose death motivates the hero.

One by one, the members of Murphy's Company B are killed in the war, until only three men from the original company are left (the others appear at the finale as ghostly images, a standard visual cliché of 1950s war films).

The producers have located the two actors in the British Isles who haven't been in one of these things yet: Ciarán Hinds as Dumbledore's brother and Kelly Macdonald as the ghostly Helena Ravenclaw, her angry sorrow on loan from a smaller, less forgiving movie.

Another miracle of the film is how well it keeps up with the characters, using the Battle of Hogwarts to greet old faces and introduce a few new troublemakers (Kelly Macdonald makes a memorable appearance as the ghostly Helena Ravenclaw).

Obviously, you would go with a variety of looks here: ghosts, mummies, the dead come back to life... I'd probably put my (still dirty) wedding dress to good use and go as a ghostly bride!

Shining a light on a character in the hidden room creates a reflection that seems to materialise in the target room, or on the stage, as a ghostly spectre.

The former means being assimilated into the force itself, whereas the latter refers to Jedi masters who have discovered how to live on as ghostly apparitions.

In an age increasingly devoted to technological progress, all that we have tried to put behind us emerges disguised as the ghostly remains of a past that refuses to die.

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Yet nothing so excites the modern materialist as the possibility of proving that consciousness is reducible to physiology, that freedom is an illusion, that mind is a ghostly epiphenomenon of unconscious metabolisms.

The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties, and always imagined the spirit or soul as having some body or form, even though, of necessity, it had to be of a ghostly or ethereal «substance», and pictured a spirit or soul world in which the soul found community.

As I sat in prayerful meditation last night, a great, deafening blast from a heavenly horn heralded the arrival of a ghostly being of terrible power.

In her account of her «shewings», by which she meant the disclosures (or series of revelations) which she believed were given her in the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian message.

Trilling's stature, now «so reduced [as] to have become a joke to certain young critics who favor flippancy and lightness,» a ghostly flickering that haunts the poor souls condemned to wander the halls of the academy, reflects the state of criticism in our time.

And that meant exaltation as Messiah — not a mere reanimation of his body; not one more resuscitation of a dead person, doomed to die again, like Lazarus or the youth at Nain; not a ghostly apparition, as evidence, after a fashion (but evidence always to be doubted!)

The ghostly blue color which pervades the background contributes to this feeling, as it lends its tone to the sky, the sea, the beach, and the clothing which cloaks the figures.

Yeah... I am ghostly white and have yet to lose that extra holiday weight as well!

These Poison Toffee Apples will definitely act as a showstopping centre - piece at any Halloween party and are perfect when coupled with my Ghostly Halloween White Chocolate Apples!

Do you think it could be crumbled up (once it cooled down or the day after) and used as a base for «ghostly» mashed potatoes with additional glaze on the side?

Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

Jack was nimble Jack was quick but now his ankle made him sit The crowd called out for another DM as the season flew away My Kingdom for a striker as the Gaffer told his tale I can make a silk purse from a sow's ear by casting pearls before wines and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of blue.

As the results come rolling in, and whilst TV reporters interview their political leaders, all we get are glimpses of blurred, ghostly profiles milling around the respective Party HQs.

As he stood up at the Despatch Box to unveil his spending review, the Chancellor looked a sickly pale, his visage so ghostly that it had the confusing effect of making Danny Alexander, his very own Blucher, and a man whose own colouring is a few notches past alabaster, looking like he'd spent a week basking on a sun - bed.

Back then, Benveniste reported that antibodies could leave a ghostly «memory» in water that made the water behave as if the antibodies were still there, even in solutions so dilute that no antibody molecules were left.

Practical by nature, Johnson had already begun to wonder if he could actually make something with atoms, as opposed to merely puzzling over ghostly traces of their constituents on a linear accelerator's plates.

If the result is correct, these ghostly subatomic particles, which fly through the Earth as if it were transparent, could be a major component of the mysterious dark matter that fills the Universe and which governs its ultimate fate.

This special issue, 169 Best Illusions, contains a smorgasbord of static images that appear to be moving (such as the Hatpin Urchin shown here), «impossible» sculptures, freaky faces, ghostly afterimages and even some edible illusions.

You can tell someone works for a Slavedriver by the spotty, ghostly pallor of their skin — the result of a lack of sunlight and using the departmental chocolate machine as their sole carbon source.

For example, an instrument on one satellite could block the glare of the sun or a distant star, making it possible for a camera on the other to image faint objects such as the sun's ghostly corona or exoplanets orbiting a star.

This suggests that, as predicted, the neutron star's ultraintense magnetic field is distorting empty space through a quantum mechanical effect involving ghostly «virtual» particles lurking in the vacuum — the sort of thing usually seen only on the atomic scale.

For 20 years now, coral around the world has been turning ghostly white and dying, a condition known as bleaching.

One type of such nebulae, known as bipolar planetary nebulae, create ghostly hourglass or butterfly shapes around their parent stars.

Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two - thirds of the ghostly particles apparently going missing en route from the Sun to Earth.