Sentence examples for an apparition in a from inspiring English sources

Even Xerxes' disastrous decision to invade Greece was not entirely his own; according to Herodotus, he is practically bullied into it by an apparition in a dream.

But the 6-5 setoack thethe sixth-place Eagles helped make a 5-2 leandand a chance to gain sole possession of third place with just five regular-season conference games remaining, vanish like an apparition in a ninth inning that proved to be frightfully unfortunate for the visitors.

CARADEUX CAMP, Haiti — The movie screen rose like an apparition, in the middle of a tent city, on a hillside veined by rain.

The coexistence of image and landscape would be a brilliant conceptual proposition by itself, but to have realised it with such grace and formal purity is a miracle: literally an apparition in the real.

One day Mo appeared, an apparition in the doorway.

Seated on a sofa at Cirque headquarters in Montreal in April, Mr. Arias was an apparition in eight-inch platform shoes and a kimono, and with the beginnings of a five-o'clock shadow.

As if on cue, Amanda Lepore (she of the 35 cosmetic surgeries) swept in, an apparition in pink Dynel and silicone.

When Rebecca and Martin start spotting an apparition in the dark, they wonder if they too are suffering from a disorder.

For example in his Madonna of Chancellor Rolin it is difficult to tell whether the location is Mary's throne-room or whether she is merely an apparition in Rolin's chamber – one he seemingly stares past.

Harris later made a brief apparition in tighty-whities, an allusion to a scene in "Birdman," the evening's big winner.

One night, he said, he sensed a tall apparition in a corner.