Sentence examples for wraithlike from inspiring English sources

She went to the far wall to look at the painting of one of the jail cells, with tall bookshelves covering nearly half the canvas and a dark shape, wraithlike, that may have been a coat on a hanger.

Indeed, few politicians in modern times have been as willfully enduring or as spitefully determined to hang around, wraithlike, as Mugabe.

Tiny translucent versions of symbols like the ABC dot, the CBS eye, the NBC peacock, the TNT circle, the shields of the History Channel and WB and the PBS "P-Man" -- known as "bugs" in the TV industry -- have become familiar sights in recent years as they hover seemingly wraithlike over and throughout the programs being presented.

But instead of discovering a population of ghosts, in the Bob Hope tradition, these two Americans -- Paul Rudd as Graham, a shy slacker from Lawrence, Kan., and Romany Malco as Allen, Graham's adopted African-American brother and director of an Internet sex business -- arrive to find a full staff of dolorous servants, themselves wraithlike hangovers from another era.

The opening track "Wraithlike" arrives as a declaration of intent, with Smith announcing "Here's a song that finally you can understand/A minor statement meant to counteract the bland".

Soloist Antoine Tamestit produced cantabile lines of Italianate warmth and figures of wraithlike otherworldliness in the "March of the Pilgrims".

Undaunted by this wraithlike errand, the two men set off toward the unknown.

Johns gave Rauschenberg the title for "Erased de Kooning Drawing," which came into being in 1953, when Rauschenberg persuaded de Kooning to give him a drawing which he would then erase, to see whether a work of art could be created by the technique of erasure; Johns also did the precise lettering for the title, on the framed matte below the very faint, wraithlike ghost of the erased image.