Sentence examples similar to ghostly imitation from inspiring English sources

By infusing The Queen of Spades with Rococo elements (Tchaikovsky himself describes the ballroom scenes as a "slavish imitation" of 18th century style), he uses the story's layers of ghostly fantasy to conjure up a dream world of the past the Saint Petersburg of Catherine the Great, where the Russian capital was fully integrated with and played a major role in the culture of Europe.

The mixed crowd of art-school hipsters and (very) heavy metal-heads files in through the (imitation) velvet rope in time for Brighton's Leopard Leg, a 14-piece all-girl drum circle in ghostly white dresses murmuring zombie-like chants - safe bet that's a Hippodrome first.

Ghostly voices.

Ghostly jellyfish.

Splendid, ghostly.

Ghostly vengeance.

Make it ghostly.

There are ghostly spirits.

The mystical is ghostly.

"Too ghostly," she said.

Success always breeds imitation.