Sentence examples for as a ghost of from inspiring English sources

"I shall costume myself as a ghost of what the white man used to be".

He returns as a ghost of sorts, inspired by the Japanese culture he learned as a child, to offer a breath of life to his sisters.

Conjuring up what Dickens himself described as a "ghost of an idea," about a rich man's conversion from heel to hero, he got to work.

If you know the story of Oney Judge's escape, and especially if you know what followed — how she volunteered to return to Virginia if Washington would promise to free her after he died; how Washington, affronted by her "unfaithfulness," refused — you might see Faustine's figure as a ghost of the nation's past, come to hold our first President, and all our brutal history, to account.

But even if it's a huge success, we should probably view that success less as a ghost of media yet to come, and more as one of the unique benefits of being a paper of record.

The guilt, the trauma, or whatever the character is repressing in their mind, comes out as a ghost of some kind".

Its presence looms, but as much through inference as through description, a ghost of a memory - or perhaps the memory of a ghost.

Lynette Narkle is compelling and intense as she describes a ghost of a legless woman crawling around walls on her hands.

"The past is a ghost in the present just as the present is a ghost of prescience in the past," Campbell writes in the play's introduction.

Enter Robbie, an old friend recently killed in a car accident and now returned as a ghost to remind Evie of her lost self.

It was as if the instrument had become a ghost of its normal self.