Sentence examples for while the spectre of from inspiring English sources

After a while the spectre of the masturbatory hobbyist building a precise model of the Millennium Falcon on the kitchen table starts to cast its terrible pall of irrelevance.

While the spectre of Zika in the Americas is fading, it's wise to stay vigilant.

"While the spectre of vague bid speculation and a whopping 6.2% yield continue to lend the shares support, Lloyds TSB's 4% outperformance of the FTSE 100 over the last year has left the market concluding that the share price is exactly where it should be for now," said Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.

It is set in the hot, hedonistic summer of 1983 and while the spectre of Aids looms (the book is dedicated to one of its fi rst victims), the subject is more fully explored by the author's Booker-winning account of Thatcher's Britain — The Line of Beauty, which picks up where the earlier novel ends.

Then gave me to your keeping," Valjean tells Cosette, while the spectre of Fantine hovers nearby.

While the spectre of slackatavism still lingers over the entire realm of online political action, the last year has shown just how potent the marriage of social media and boots on the ground organizing can be.

Three years ago, Guus Hiddink took over from Luiz Felipe Scolari at Stamford Bridge deep into the season, and found a north London team standing between Chelsea and the FA Cup final, while having the spectre of a Champions League semi-final against Barcelona looming.

A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, the spectre of Margaret Thatcher.

Even while local officials conjured the spectre of a catastrophic flood in their pleas to Congress for levee funding, the city failed to prepare adequately for the event.

One dates but fails to commit to an older partner, another becomes obsessed by a bearded man who may or not be a threatening presence; others spiral around their mutually shared affections and distrusts while being differently affected by the spectre of mortality.

"While the boats may have stopped, the spectre of people smuggling remains ever present in our region.