ghostly
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The text includes an Omniscient Seashell, drinks that offer forgetfulness or remembering, ghostly apparitions, a magical couples’ retreat at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and a desert prince who becomes obsessed with Helena.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
They hinted at a darker, more gothic aesthetic, with lyrics haunted by ghostly figures and existential crises.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The algae provide coral's characteristic colours, and their departure leaves behind a ghostly white structure that is gradually starving.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Aunt Kitty glided down the steps without a sound and moved along the path like a ghostly apparition.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
At 60 minutes, the production is not quite as tight as it could be; its shifts into Bete’s childhood, and other, ghostlier realms don’t always persuade.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Soon Anna and Vronsky and a few ghostlier figures are languishing in the corners of the tidy condo she shares with her dentist husband and school-age son.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
Yet nothing is ghostlier than the hawk itself.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015
His shadow proves he was no ghost; but a ghost 138 was never ghostlier than he.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Night darkens, , and again the Southern Cross glimmers before our prow, and the two Milky Ways reveal themselves,—that of the Cosmos and that ghostlier one which stretches over the black deep behind us.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again?
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022
When I went there, I had the queerest, ghostliest sensation of having seen it all before.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael
Dead, in the ghostliest sense of the word,—the viewless pressure upon her life of numberless vanished generations.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio
"You are the ghostliest thing I've ever known," said David with a nervous laugh of relief.
From The Rose in the Ring by McCutcheon, George Barr
