wraith
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“Ulysses can fight, but it’s not about him becoming this kind of revengeful wraith moving through the movie dispatching people. It’s action, but with empathy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
The original Beetlejuice, which starred Michael Keaton as an obnoxious wraith hired to help scare away a house's pretentious inhabitants, was released back in 1988.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2023
This Diana, a pale wraith who clutches at her children like she needs them to keep her tethered, is a bird in a luxurious trap; we see the eating disorders, the mental illness, the misery.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021
“In the final series of swift lifts, her foot seemed barely to touch the floor. It was the image that others have never matched, the airborne wraith who seems to fly out of a lithograph.”
From Washington Post • May 30, 2021
In the curved hallway mirror I flit past, a red shape at the edge of my own field of vision, a wraith of red smoke.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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