Mormonism objects to making a big deal of the morbid agony of Jesus on the Cross at the expense of the more cheerful apparition of Man-made-into-God.
Nevertheless, Greeley's effectiveness as a reformer was undermined by his idiosyncrasies: according to Williams, he "must have looked like an apparition, a man of eccentric habits dressed in an old linen coat that made him look like a farmer who came into town for supplies".
Other paintings, including the creepy apparition in Man Dressed as Bat (2007), also invoke the natural world.
"On Wings of Song," a new song cycle by David Del Tredici, is about things that inspire -- the apparition of a beautiful winged man, or the apparition of the composer himself, playing the piano in drag on New Year's Eve.
I had not told her about Mr. Ziegler, and she was puzzled by the unexpected apparition of an aged kewpie of a man, peering inquiringly over his glasses, thoughtfully running his lower lip over his upper lip, disconsolate at the lost prospect of an hour of stimulating controversy.
In one of them Moberly claimed to have seen in the Louvre in 1914 an apparition of the Roman emperor Constantine, a man of unusual height wearing a gold crown and a toga; he was not observed by anybody else.
Is this cowboy-hatted apparition the man's younger self, a family member trying to help – or something more sinister?
Milton becomes obsessed with the apparition of St. Rosa.
In a characteristically egoless image, she looks like an apparition of flickering light.
But the true star is the terrifying apparition of the train itself.
But the centerpiece of the installation was an apparition of ambiguous magnificence.
