Sentence examples for brooding spectre from inspiring English sources
I've recently been reading John Ruskin's great 19th-century work The Stones of Venice, and one of its fascinations is the way he portrays Venice not as a place of glorious light and pleasure, but as a brooding spectre on the ashen waters, its skies and lagoon shadowed by dread and decay.
The narrative takes in two generations of costumed crime-fighters, including hooded technophile Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), now a paunchy Bruce Wayne-ish loner brooding in his bachelor den; vampy Silk Spectre (weak link Malin Akerman, woodenly sexy); and Dr Manhattan (Billy Crudup), a scientist transformed by nuclear exposure into a quasi-divine blue-glowing apparition.
This year especially it seems that spies are everywhere, whether in the form of Kit Harington brooding his way through the gritty, Bourne-style movie Spooks: The Greater Good, Daniel Craig's once-more dependable 007 in the forthcoming Spectre, or played for laughs in Spy by Melissa McCarthy, Miranda Hart and Jason Statham.
Votive candles start brooding.
Second, and most important: brooding.
Rote, brooding, souly yawntronica.
Unreliable, brooding, brilliant, incorrigible.
brooding, gloomy, misery, wary.
