In Judaism of the Hellenistic period (3rd century bc to 3rd century ad), however, angels were viewed as noncorporeal spiritual beings who appeared to man in an apparitional fashion.
I might not have come up with the "phantom butch" trope back then (though I did read Terry Castle's "The Apparitional Lesbian" when it came out in 1993, so who knows?) but I knew I'd eventually try to tackle it in a piece of writing.
Just as the evening's about to move on, they appear, not as the apparitional deer — here, & gone in the next moment, without a sound — but one by one, bumbling through briar, chewing through poison ivy, sniffing at trees.
Another displays discontinuous bits of contour and fabric, in grays against a chartreuse ground, that add up to an apparitional figure of a harp-strumming King David.
I got a good look at the hats — three apparitional red wheels far up in the semidarkness — and was about to withdraw my head when an elderly Irish priest standing talking to one of the cathedral scrubwomen who was down on her knees scrubbing the marble stairs with Old Dutch Cleanser noticed me and came over and unhooked the velvet rope and invited me to step inside if I wanted to.
Indeed, his buildings often look best from afar, when they appear most apparitional.
Those seen from street level, like the 1984 "Silks," with its apparitional yellow taxi and indistinct red-shirted figure, look especially impressionistic, as if fleetingly caught.
Men in suits and mullahs in robes share space with horses, apes and apparitional figures from classical Persian painting.
Which actually seems to suggest to me that Fritsch is doing her job: the stock-in-trade of the venerable Düsseldorf-based artist is what Tate curator Jessica Morgan has called the "unnerving, apparitional quality" of Fritsch's sculptures which, with their matt, powdery surfaces seem to have arrived from quite another world.
by Sharon Levy Just as the evening's about to move on, they appear, not as the apparitional deer — here, & gone in the next moment, without a sound — but one by one, bumbling through briar, chewing through poison ivy, sniffing at trees.
The morning after, his schoolmate's presence at the Smoker's Club still seemed apparitional.
