Sentence examples for a wraith from inspiring English sources

Amanda McKerrow was a delicate Nikiya, very much a wraith.

But there is nothing left; he has become a wraith.

Front and center, from start to finish, is a wraith of a character.

Ms. Harris's voice inhabits her songs like a wraith, intangible but omnipresent.

In this modern Victorian ghost story, dishes crack and a wraith appears in a child's room.

"She is terribly thin, almost a wraith, and should be gowned more becomingly".

Louisa Krause's Rose is a wraith-like vamp.

We follow an elite group studying Greek with a wraith-like professor.

When Anastasia Hille's Lady Macbeth conjures the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts", she's like a wraith-thin child trying to cast spells.

Salander, a wraith-thin waif with a ferocious, take-no-prisoners attitude and history of anti-social behavior, seems less like a conventional detective than like a loaded gun, waiting to go off.

And in its final act, as the face of anguished heroine Kelly Reilly becomes a wraith-mask of mud, blood and despair, she starts looking like something from a very English Apocalypse Now.