Sentence examples for haunting presence from inspiring English sources

A well-regarded British television actress making her first appearance in a feature, she is a haunted, haunting presence, keeping an almost terrifying intensity hidden just beneath her drab exterior.

"I have worked with some brilliant directors, but I don't think I have ever worked with anyone as calm," says Siobhan Finneran, who plays Swifty's beleaguered but loving mother, a haunted – and haunting – presence in a film that suggests more than it spells out.

What is "High Noon" divorced from Cooper's haunting presence?

Ms. Clibanoff creates architectural spaces that have a mysteriously haunting presence.

Whatever the designer's intent, they are a haunting presence in a worthwhile and fascinating play.

She can hear him, rustling about in the depths, can feel the haunting presence of his vacant eyes.

The cells of the past, recyled, reused, never quite destroyed, are real rather than haunting presences throughout A Possible Life.

As Sonmi, the South Korean actress Doona Bae is a haunting, somber presence.

In this refracted universe, only Ben Gunn and Pew remain much the same, Pew creepily self-serving and Gunn a haunting, insubstantial presence whose motives remain, as ever, unclear.

I go back to the comfort of Roland Garros, though Bourgeois remained a haunting and disturbing presence.

Saying it aloud was a way of evoking the haunting and powerful presence that existed now only in memory.