That absence, for now at least, haunts any inquiry into the history of slavery" (34).
There is – for me at least – something haunting about historical novels that deal with points where we say the world altered its course.
Every Beckett play features at least one haunting visual image, often of the greatest originality, but where Beckett comes close to dance is in the precision with which he choreographs movement.
They, we, are all trying to rise or at least not fall, haunted by the idea that someone -- no matter where we are on the totem pole -- is richer, more important, hipper, less humiliated than us.
For at least two decades Margaret Thatcher haunted the Conservative party.
Last but not least, we are increasingly haunted by the possible lack of awareness of how all actions can have potential impact in the continuing definition of the individual and of the subjective.
His 23-year-old daughter, Anitha Moorthy, who left graduate school at Harvard to find her father -- or at least some answers -- is haunted by so many questions these days.
The Copper Queen is haunted, or at least that is what the owners claim and what numerous guests have affirmed over the years with stories about mysterious voices, odd sounds and smells, and even levitating objects.
Asleep like that, unguarded, her head leaning heavily to one side, she looked old and tired, but at least the worry that usually haunted her face was gone, and, as I stood watching her, it struck me that she was dreaming.
Initially, it looks like the creepy house that you, the teenage Kaitlin Greenbriar, come home to is haunted or at least malevolent in some way, but the mysteries in Gone Home are purely text-based - on Post Its, notes, and objects.
