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
Tom Skerritt moves through “East of the Mountains” like a hobbled wraith.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
No such strategies can keep the Lyceum’s own pervasive Mina, the vengeful wraith of a murdered girl who haunts the theater, from infiltrating Bram’s thoughts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
She appears out of the mist silently as a wraith, and despite myself, I jump.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
The protagonists are a couple of paranormal investigators, Red and Antea, who are trying to clear the tormented wraiths out of a haunted settlement.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
"All my energy has been well and truly sucked out of me like I've been kissed by a dementor," Paolo says referring to the soul-consuming wraiths in the Harry Potter stories.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
She saw her mother, shrouded in a dark covering of wraiths, bones and melting faces, and felt her overwhelming grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion—of both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
It was more like dusk than daylight, and wraiths and streamers of the fog rose dismally from puddles in the road, or clung like forlorn lovers to the anbaric cables overhead.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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