Sentence examples for mere ghost from inspiring English sources
Clearly they are no mere ghost or illusion.
Regretfully, he called it "a mere ghost of its past", largely because the very making of music is different nowadays.
"The public sector in this country has shrunk to just a mere ghost of its former self," Appelbaum says.
The Washington Post is a mere ghost of its former self.
If her cartoonish portrayal flirts with minstrelsy, at least she outshines the other actors, who are mere ghosts in the machine.
The Upper Basin of the Colorado remains fairly typical of pristine streams of this region; however, the Colorado River in the Lower Basin and the entire Columbia River within the continental United States are mere ghosts of their former ecosystems.
I'm wondering if this use of two-dimensional alter egos isn't some sly comment on how virtual reality is replacing real reality and how we have all become mere ghosts of our technological avatars.
Roosevelt Field mall in East Garden City has mere ghosts of the architect I. M. Pei's cantilevers and the store signs and telephone booth graphics by the artist Sol LeWitt and the designer Don Page.
Where her skeletal trap beats exist – on Art Deco, or Del Rey's latest celebration of California, Freak – they are mere ghosts of skeletons, marbles dropped down a glass staircase across the valley.
This therefore is the dilemma of Science and indeed of all human knowledge, that in carrying out the process which is peculiar to it, it necessarily leaves the dry ground of reality for the watery region of abstractions, which abstractions become ever more tenuous and ungraspable the farther it goes, and ultimately fade into mere ghosts.
