Sentence examples for unhappy ghosts from inspiring English sources

But these women are caught in this space like restless, unhappy ghosts.

Grimwood evokes the scent of a Corsican hillside; he writes of monks on St Michel hovering "at the back of the dilapidated cathedral like unhappy ghosts" and the tawdry, crowded stink of Versailles.

Despite the disapproval of both families ("What a Lovely Day for a Wedding"), Joe and Jennie marry, a wedding observed by the unhappy ghosts of Marjorie and Grandma ("Wish Them Well").

Inspector Ian Rutledge haunts Charles Todd's mysteries like an unhappy ghost, wandering among the living but more at home among the dead.

Here it is as if, not having located the character's truth, and not being able to construct a flashy veneer, he is condemned to wander the stage like an unhappy ghost.

(For the record, Harper's last "balanced budget" was as much political posturing as this one; the Conservatives sold off the government's stake in the auto sector to fudge the numbers on their books. Substantive federal budgets have already joined the Sears Catalogue and Rupert's Land as another unhappy ghost of long-gone Canadiana).

Despite being infused with unhappy boy ghosts, the pilot was picked up for series, and we shot seven more episodes.

I found the stronger, happier, more confident, vibrant version of myself at 150 pounds, and looking back, I know now that the 139-pound girl was a skeleton, a ghost, unhappy and sick.

Morgan's parents have come in flight from ghosts and unhappy past lives on "the mainland", while Mary has always lived there.

Individuals who are haunted are believed to be responsible for, or associated with, the ghost's unhappy past experience (compare possession).

Darwin's Delay is by now nearly as famous as Hamlet's, and involves a similar cast of characters: a family ghost, an unhappy lover, and a lot of men digging up old bones.