IT WAS the mangroves he noticed first, reduced to cobwebbed wraiths as far as the eye could see.
The Washington Post, which has had a tough time, has opposed a paywall so far, presumably because it worries it will not woo enough paying readers.Most important, a paper's content has to be worth paying for, which is bad news for papers that have cost-cut themselves into journalistic wraiths.
What Americans ate, he believed, could not possibly harm their health.Not for Dr Stare, therefore, the faddish diets by which the Callista Flockharts and Jennifer Anistons of this world reduce themselves to wraiths.
This chapter is riddled by shifts of subject matter across four centuries – Rudolph and his cabinet come and go like wraiths.
Its heroes are the wraiths of international sport, relentlessly ordinary men capable of consistently extraordinary acts of bravery and precision.
Hardly anybody in the rest of the world paid attention until a reporter from the Sun, the London tabloid, visited Biafra with a photographer and encountered the wasting children: eerie, withered little wraiths.
When we sit down to write a romance, then, we make up elves and ghosts and wraiths and wizards, in whom we don't believe but in whom we enclose our most urgent feelings, and we demand that the world they inhabit be consistent and serious.
They had become wraiths, stumbling along on foot or riding donkeys, bobbing away amid a throng of chattering, happy, barefaced girls.
Finally he gave up and went to the bar, where he leaned into a gathering of wraiths and ordered a bourbon from a pretty bartender with a blood-red slash impastoed darkly across her neck.
If, one day, ink-and-print is dead and gone, newspapers will endure, wraiths of ether.
Of course, the lake that the cabin is set on was considered haunted by the local American Indians, and before long the villagers are being turned into bloodthirsty, ax- and chainsaw-waving wraiths.
