Sentence examples for apparition at from inspiring English sources

I was so angry, trying to find it, running around like some apparition at two in the morning.

James, the former intelligence officer, denied being an apparition at Mr. Crocquet's book signing, although when Mr. Crocquet asked, he did acknowledge scouting out the place beforehand.

In what other setting is one likely to find the Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez seated alongside Daphne Guinness, the fashion apparition, at dinner? "It's a traveling party," said Sam Orlofsky, a director of the Gagosian Gallery in New York.

And so to me, if to no one else, it is clear that this gave him the idea of the apparition, at a window, of the ghostly figure of Peter Quint.

"You could like look at this and say, 'We are crazy, chasing after windmills.' " The notion set Mr. Bailey and Mr. Moore to laughing, as Mr. Bailey described a Don Quixote scene with the four friends astride donkeys, charging haplessly toward a hazy apparition at the top of a hill.

The Beverley Gate, where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642 as an act of defiance by the governor of the city that helped trigger the English Civil War, is to be re-created with an illuminated "apparition" at the gate's historical location.

Present-day intrigue in the Vatican revolving around the Marian apparitions at Fatima in 1917.

That the Christ and the Apostle figures are in some sense more human than the Romanesque apparitions at Vézelay and Autun (c. 1130) need hardly be argued.

It contains scenes of great poignancy and some of the finest dramatic verse since the Elizabethans, but the public found this translation of the story of Orestes into a modern domestic drama baffling and was uneasy at the mixture of psychological realism, mythical apparitions at a drawing-room window, and a comic chorus of uncles and aunts.

Beginning with a lyrical view of a young man and woman who turn up as apparitions at a stirring musical service in a small church, Nance expands his vision to a sort of artistic cosmogony; by way of ecstatic imagery, thrillingly balletic performances, and a mighty sense of humor, he sketches a personal mythology of black American history and culture.

In 2010, then-Pope Benedict XVI launched an international commission to study the apparitions at Medjugorje.