Sentence examples for wraith of from inspiring English sources

Perhaps his "wraith of memory" theory is the best we can hope for.

And the wraith of Benjamin Britten haunts Aldeburgh in an agreeable way.

All that remains is a silent wraith of that name, making rare appearances on the backbenches.

We can't retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James's, there is a wraith of memory.

The story is over, I won't see the scarred wraith of Celebrimbor again, I won't have to face Sauron's murderous henchman, Black Hand, or his talons.

The narrator of Nick Tosches's novel is a writer named Nick Tosches, "a toothless wraith of a man," "closer now in years to death than to youth".

"It connected, everything connected," he says, during our interview in the back of the Wraith, for much of which he's glued to the phone.

Wraiths of mist drifted across its lower reaches.

If, one day, ink-and-print is dead and gone, newspapers will endure, wraiths of ether.

Discoveries to be made!" For poor Emile, pale wraiths of color sputter and fade.

Its heroes are the wraiths of international sport, relentlessly ordinary men capable of consistently extraordinary acts of bravery and precision.