Sentence examples for apparition as from inspiring English sources

Designed by the New York firm Polshek Partnership, the planetarium is an aesthetic apparition as well as a major civic event.

You feel you're experiencing the piano as apparition as much as reality – a heightened sonic surrealism that Adès's music often achieves with different media and in different contexts.

A spectre is hanging over the Scottish members of parliament, an apparition as terrifying as Banquo's ghost.

To me, Dad was a hero, but he was an apparition as well, gone 200 days of the year from when I was 6 until he died.

In 1960, he told an audience of military doctors, "It may be possible to so dose a man that he would describe an enemy soldier as green-and-purple-striped, cuboid, and nine feet tall, but this is not incapacitation so long as he can still recognize this apparition as an enemy, and can shoot him or impale him on a bayonet".

We witness a universal apparition, as we are absorbed into his palette and form.

While she is asleep, Snaut proposes beaming Kelvin's brainwave patterns at Solaris in hopes that it will understand them and stop the disturbing apparitions as communication.

For the holidays, her home is transformed into a throbbing hub of Mexican Catholicism -- wailing grandkids, a 10-foot-long Nativity scene with votives, saints and Magi mixed in with statues of various Marian apparitions, as well as action figures placed by grandkids.

Other placeless or wandering dead, such as the Finnish ihtiriekko and the Ostyak vylep or patshak, often manifest themselves in apparitions or as auditory experiences, indicating the uneasiness of the people about the proper fate of their dead.

His characters float through that worldscape like apparitions, as diaphanous and transitory as the directorial eye.

Yet this Dickinson does belong to Joyce Carol Oates, who, herself almost 70, mischievously and with compassion reinvents the poet and those other mortal, evanescent artists, those "Bright Knots of Apparitions," as Oates quotes Dickinson, flickering just beyond our reach.