"It is transformed into a spectre of self-propelling capital which uses the productive capacities and needs of actual people only as its temporary disposable embodiment.
For Gervais, almost certainly – the spectre of self-indulgence is never far from the stage, as the former singer/lyricist of unheralded 80s synth-pop band Seona Dancing finally gets to play rock god.
The spectre of self-doubt is showing up.
This collection is best enjoyed by dipping in and out.For a more academic study of ghosts in England read Shane McCorristine's recent book, "Spectres of the Self".
At the end of his life, the General is reduced to a spectre of his former self.
"A spectre of wine-soaked, self-regarding, middle-aged femininity," one review I should probably have read before watching called her.
She is a bogeywoman with whom we women d'un certain age can scare ourselves stupid; a spectre of wine-soaked, self-regarding, middle-aged femininity that is all the more horrendous for its recognisability.
The spectre of failure drove his relentless self-advertisement: "Fame", Mr Phillips observes, "was the modern word for permission".
A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, the spectre of Margaret Thatcher.
Described, instead, as a way for individual households to save money on their council tax bill it sets firing all the wrong synapses: self-interest and the spectre of scarcity instead of collective action and a sense of possibility.
America is again confronting the spectre of domestic Islamic extremism after two gunmen, at least one of them a self-styled supporter of Isis, were shot and killed after attacking an exhibition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed.
