Sentence examples for apparition with from inspiring English sources

Foreman, who had not yet become an all-American grill selling multi-millionaire preacher, was a terrifying apparition with a 37-0 record and an Olympic gold medal.

The upbeat songs in the opening set, Debussy's "Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse," were more perfunctory than lively, and she sang "Apparition" with Puccinian overstatement rather than mysterious delicacy.

a large, black, monstrous apparition with horns on his head, cloven hoofs, hair, ass's ears, claws, fiery eyes, gnashing teeth, and huge phallus, and sulphurous smell.

From the living room, Mary Lazar stared at this apparition with an expression that suggested there were darker depths to her soul than I had imagined.

Ms. Beiser is a cellist of ferocious energy and talent and a striking apparition with feline beauty and Pre-Raphaelite hair.

Swaddled in a striped, luxuriantly wrinkly robe, Mary sits on her rumpled bed with folded hands and looks sideways at the apparition with a slightly suspicious expression.

In some cases the men are depicted as skeletal apparitions with prominent ribs and protruding bones.

Grizzly Bear's songs were gorgeous, hovering apparitions, with ethereal vocal harmonies facing upheavals of guitar noise.

Eminences like the astronomer and mathematician John Herschel become startling apparitions, with giant heads that seem to float in the frame.

When I came back, they were gone". She explains such apparitions with a near-mystical calm: "There are some here in Norte who have left us but still do not think they are dead". Soliman is familiar with the habits of the deceased.

He writes: "This fearsome apparition, black with pitch, packed with men and bristling with oars, was an emblem of liberty and democracy but also of imperial ambition.