Sentence examples for ghostly character from inspiring English sources

Moaning Myrtle, a ghostly character from the books, can be heard in the women's restroom.

Next day I saw a shadow moving in front of my bedroom and when I asked who was it, pat came the reply from my 4-year-old daughter that it was 'Nagavalli', the ghostly character in the film".

In "Way to Go," an animated piece directed by French Canadian Vincent Morisset and a group of Quebec artists, a viewer moves as if in a video game, following a ghostly character through various landscapes.

In "Way to Go," an animated piece directed by the French-Canadian filmmaker Vincent Morriset and a group of Quebecois artists (it includes the Grammy-winning designer Caroline Robert), one moves as if in a video game, following a ghostly character through various landscapes.

But some of the same qualities that make the novel work so well are exactly the qualities that don't work in screenplays: most notably, that Carol herself is a ghostly character, the scant details of her life relayed to the reader in shards, through Therese's eyes — beautifully apt in the novel, so that the reader can visualize his or her own Carol.

The ghostly characters represented an element of American history that still haunts both the national pastime and the entire culture.

The ghostly characters in his books are involved in a forlorn but spirited attempt to reconstruct the pasts of the landscapes they are travelling through.

Recently I can't go into the dull walled garden of the flats where I live, because I've haunted it - I can see the spectre of myself walking round and round in the rain, last summer, trying to write the last pages of my novel: following my ghostly characters, Tudor lawyers walking arm-in-arm in the drizzle, talking about the trial of Thomas More.

As evidenced by novels like "Eva Moves the Furniture," which featured a pair of ghostly female characters, Livesey is drawn to literary gambles, and there's no question that modeling her new book on a classic is a risky move.

Only two monks were in residence: one a ghostly-pale character with a soft spot for the entertainment district nearby; the other a grizzled old guy whose passions stretched from motorbikes to the Hanshin Tigers baseball team and back again.

This lends the character a half-ghostly quality that is consistent with the half-life he lives.