Sentences with phrase «ghostly presence»

Mental illness isn't the only ghostly presence in the collection, either.

Sleep deprivation also accounts for Charles A. Lindbergh's sensed presence during his transatlantic flight to Paris: «The fuselage behind me becomes filled with ghostly presences — vaguely outlined forms, transparent, moving, riding weightless with me in the plane... conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.»

The Kaplans have come to a remote coastal home for the summer, unaware that they're sharing the house with a mysterious ghostly presence: you.

The subdued narrative charts the wealthy Laurents» professional and moral downfall following a near - fatal accident on their premises against the backdrop of the impoverished migrant community, whose ghostly presence throughout metaphorically conveys the protagonists» apathy and social disconnectedness.

During his research he loses his way in the mountains, encountering ghostly presences amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape.

These documents function as more ghostly presences that haunt the space.

I'm sure we will see the same ghostly presence out of Luke in Episode IX.

Guaranteed to give you goose bumps, visitors to St Michan's Church in Dublin have reported a strong ghostly presence, hearing the raspy whisper of hushed voices, muffled screaming and even the shocking touch of ice - cold fingers on their necks.

Pfeiffer no longer uses the long - exposure image to record her fleeting ghostly presence, but the sense of things being in play and unresolved remains palpable.

Moi et l'autre is a series of 15 self - portraits in which pinhole - camera photographs are superimposed on found images, thus inserting the artist's ghostly presence into the history of a family not her own.

A more tangible ghostly presence in the exhibition is Birmingham Central Library.

You were a constant, ghostly presence in the house, your blue salwar kameez fluttering noiselessly behind you as you exited any room that I entered.

Every major American city boasts at least one hotel whose ghostly presences have been verified by management staff and guests, not to mention experts on the paranormal.

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I am drawn to the ghostly presence which fills a building after the crowd has left it, tempted to search for traces of meaning that remain.

The funny thing is I've lived here for a year and half with no previous problems so maybe it's just a ghostly presence passing through.

The dastardly husband soon begins experiencing her ghostly presence.

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.

In Joachim Trier's recent Louder Than Bombs, she was a war photographer who dominated the drama in absentia, a ghostly presence in a fractured family.

The story starter should be both intriguing and vague: «The murder happened at midnight»; «The house throbbed with the ghostly presence»; «Let me tell you about that night!»

- Booklist «Marcus» fascination with the ghostly presence of an adolescent boy, thought to have perished at Grief Cottage in a hurricane, allows Godwin to explore themes of loss, connection, and growth unfettered by the corporeal world.»

The ghostly presence of Emily Brontë makes The Lost Child more than the sum of its parts, and the resonances Phillips explores between the literary past and the recent historical past echo in the mind long after the novel is finished.

Her supernatural skills are called upon when everything and everyone else has failed to rid a haunted house of its ghostly presence.

Ghostly presence... It's been a while since our last proper Sneak Peek, but we're back with a look at the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier multiplayer beta.

In Extreme Exorcism, gamers take on the role of exorcist Mae Barrons (or one of her three assistants), whose unconventional supernatural skills are called upon when everything and everyone else has failed to rid a haunted house of its ghostly presence.

The patches on the base of the vitrines, showing where objects once stood, evoke a ghostly presence, calling forth the spirits of sculptural ancestors and ancestral sculptors and suggesting a continuation of line from the classical Greek and Roman through Scarpa to Bove and beyond.

David Smith has his ghostly presences in white, Alexander Calder his mobiles, and Louise Bourgeois an unfolding portrait in prints.

Collaborating with the cold, Dumas captures the invisible marks of its ghostly presence and reveals the unseen to the eye.

The extraordinary closeness of tone between figure and ground endows her marks with a ghostly presence: they seem to have been coaxed into existence or, conversely, to be on the verge of disappearing.

Another Burchfield, a 1916 watercolor, depicts mysterious creatures assembled on a mountaintop, while the sun — or maybe it's the moon — glows overhead, obscured by a floating, ghostly presence.

New York is hardly here at all, and is a kind of ghostly presence: still necessary but hardly dominant.

These ghostly presences, accompanied by the communal activity of the artist's interaction with the public, summon lives and deaths from Southeast Asia's troubled histories, including the story of the lovelorn youth who committed suicide in the building.

And with only a ghostly presence, artists from The Centre For Dying On Stage will explore the poetics of immortality throughout the exhibition.

With Matter and What it Means (1989) suspended coins run over by a train took an implied human shape with a ghostly presence.

Snippets of conversations and half - heard words emerge from the hoods, suggesting a ghostly presence.

These appearances are but awkward references to the ghostly presence of modernist schooling — out of place and yet welcomed, modernism comes to haunt.

The graphic account describes the elusive behemoth, known as Mocha Dick, as a ghostly presence: «As white as wool... as white as a snow drift... white as the surf around him.»

The ghostly presence of Pontianak, alternately known as Kuntilanak in Indonesia, Nang Tani in Thailand and Cambodia and Aswang in the Phillippines, is the subject of Malaysian born Yee I - Lann's photographic and video work.

White vinyl conceals the lettering on the vehicle's exterior, giving it a ghostly presence.

About the Work in Court (Basketball) 2012 Total Run Time: 13:22 In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories.

After stripping off the tape, the white lines rest like the ghostly presence of precision surrounded by the random brushstroke.

Ghostly presences are set to haunt the winter landscape around Tate Modern in an other - worldly installation by American artist Tony Oursler.

In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories.

As opposed to the brute force of Minimalism, Whiteread's sculptures function more akin to the ghostly presences embodied in the perfectly reproduced sink sculptures of Robert Gober.

The artworks in the exhibition awkwardly reference the ghostly presence of modernist schooling — out of place and yet welcomed, modernism comes to haunt.

After time, these elements are «burned» into the display so their ghostly presence remains even when they should be gone.