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However, Black Shuck is not the only apparition to add to the ghostly reputation of Wicken Fen, one of Britain's oldest nature reserves.
I have never been moved to tears by a skyline, or a building, or a painted arch, but the sudden apparition of a peak from behind a sheet of mist is enough, now, to make me cry.
Will his gargantuan stack of 107 guest rooms and suites, spas and ballroom, library, restaurants, cafes, sky bars and swimming pool – not to mention the art gallery – really disappear in a shimmering apparition?
But the true star is the terrifying apparition of the train itself.
Rather, it presents figurative art portraying the human experience of modern life, from the late 19th century onwards.The exhibition's title comes from an Ezra Pound poem inspired by a journey on the Paris Metro: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough".
Vittorio Messori, co-author of a book with him when he was merely Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, noted that the resignation came on the anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, commemorated by Catholics as the World Day of the Sick.No visible evidence suggests that the pope was suffering from more than old age.
A picture of Jesus is pasted to the wall in the operating theatre.An apparition of Mary is said to have occurred in Donglu in 1900 when local Catholics were fighting off an assault by members of the fanatical Boxer cult trying to destroy their church.
If that apparition had indeed marked a "pre-discovery" of Swift-Tuttle, it would return not in the early 1980s but in 1992.
Modern scholarship, however, maintains that it is in fact St Augustine seeing through his window an apparition of St Jerome, announcing his death in Bethlehem.Carpaccio delighted in painting animals and birds.
He helps us to see poems, such as this famous, peculiarly haunting 19-syllable haiku, in a new light:The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.That Mr Moody is constantly being upstaged by the subject of his study is not surprising.
In 1924, 25 years before the communists came to power, papal recognition of the Donglu apparition was sought by the first meeting of Chinese church leaders.
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The word "apparition" functions primarily as a noun . It refers to a visible but insubstantial form, such as that of a ghost or phantom. As Ludwig confirms, it denotes something that appears unexpectedly and often mysteriously. It is frequently linked to supernatural occurrences.
Expression frequency: Very common
