单词 | wraithlike |
例句 | First two points of mast, then sails, transparent and wraithlike in the fog, then, as Kit strained her eyes, the looming hull, the prow, and the curved tail of a fish. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The smith stared at his son who stood wraithlike in that weird, dank mist. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Ash woke in the middle of the night from a dream of horses — tall, thundering white horses with foaming mouths and slender, wraithlike riders. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “People die in hospitals,” she whispered, her fingers clenching the wheel, wraithlike. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For Marx himself, capitalism created a wraithlike consumer society. Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But when the others visit him, they recoil at the sight of its anxious wraithlike residents in the throes of Alzheimer’s and whisk him out of the place. Movie Review: Jane Fonda in Stéphane Robelin’s ‘All Together’ 2012-10-19T00:08:53Z As the has week progressed, a handful of designers turned their backs on hard-edged urbanity in favor of a style as pale and wraithlike as Ophelia. On the Runway Blog: Drifting Away from Hard Edged 2011-09-12T17:55:15Z I can't recall another act of violence on this show or on "The Wire" that turned perpetrators of violent crime into wraithlike abstractions, like something out of a "Death Wish" movie. "Treme's" cheap, ugly showstopper 2011-05-09T03:09:00Z Two topless, wraithlike women are tucked under the legs of the tiger, his broad black mouth looking just like one of his stripes. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Appearing wraithlike behind the glass, stairways in both wind over and around themselves like crinkly strands of DNA as they ascend full height. At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The sculpted forms are wraithlike, yet their outlines are realistic. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And I’m only 80 percent certain the next piece he played was “Laura,” the wraithlike ballad that he first covered with the vocalist Jeanne Lee, on their classic album “The Newest Sound Around,” from 1962. Live Jazz: Three August Standouts, From Gilad Hekselman to Rebolú 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The wraithlike Ms. Rampling, who has the posture of a dancer and, apparently, the patience of a saint, smiled for them all. At 69, Charlotte Rampling Knows What ‘You Look Amazing’ Really Means 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z She is famous for moving very slowly, and slowness and stillness are still crucial aspects of her wraithlike persona, imparting the sense that she is there and not there. Eiko Invites You to Her Inner Land of Wraiths 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s lens was ecumenical; he loved great dressers, and he didn’t discriminate between young and old, wraithlike and Venusian, high and low. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Throughout the July competency trial, the 20-year-old Dominguez sat wraithlike, pale, his unwashed hair a curtain in front of his eyes. Athlete, honor student, murderer? How did a UC Davis student spiral into an accused killer? 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Pale and wraithlike, Pattinson’s bummer of a Batman slugs and slashes his way through his crime-fighting duties, at one point introducing himself as Vengeance. Review | In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Though Ruthie did escape, and was away from her hometown for years, she has waited for release from its wraithlike grasp. Always on the edge, an unflinching memoirist leaps off into fiction 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z There is, in short, something hollowed out in “Spectre”—a hint of something not quite there, as wraithlike as the title suggests. James Bond, Existentialist 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z At 5 feet 4, she remained a wraithlike hundred pounds throughout her adult life. Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90 2012-08-13T21:30:01Z A woman, moreover, whom you had once adored, and whose memory had ever stood, wistful, winsome, wraithlike, between your wives and you. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z He moved quickly in that direction, saw now a wraithlike figure in white. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Her dress flickered and flashed through the trees beside the track; it was a wraithlike streak in the twilight. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Occasionally these persons have in full light had some appearance, wraithlike or otherwise, some manifestation that appeals to vision, yet that they knew at the time or learned afterwards was non-existent. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In places where veteran guides wandered and blundered, Prophet Eli knew a short-cut or detour, and moved with wraithlike swiftness, enjoying his reputation for surprises with the keen relish of the shatter-pate. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z She refused, and by that time photographs were beamed around the world showing a wraithlike woman looking up apparently in terror at an officer in camouflage. 2010-01-12T13:59:00Z Then she had gleamed wraithlike in the purple dusk of her purple room, with its purple-shaded lamps. The Brightener There was a dim thin sickle of moon and a pale haze of stars, a wraithlike scattering of small white clouds that drifted in the reflected spectrum of the city's multicolored glow. Assignment's End Nancy looked curiously at the strange little figure, almost wraithlike in the dim light. Happy House Some of her regular patrons began to change weight gradually, a heavy man or two became less heavy, and a wraithlike girl now and then took on a new bloom and substantiality. Outside Inn And then the last remnant of mist vanished with a curiously wraithlike abruptness, and the end of Jacaro’s Tube came into view. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Against the brilliant background of swift color changes and geometric light-shapes that so quickly merged into the familiar blur, Bert saw his companions as dim wraithlike forms. Wanderer of Infinity Here were associations almost living, they were so vivid, yet wraithlike in sheer removedness. The Prisoner For two days Anita wandered wraithlike about the great darkened house. The Crevice Standing in my stirrups, I fired six times at the wraithlike forms ahead as fast as I could work the lever of my rifle. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' So pale, so wasted, so almost wraithlike was she as to suggest that when her spirit fled, if flee it must, nothing could be left remaining between the sheets. Counsel for the Defense Still more wraithlike the mainland, fringed to the sea foam with saturnine pine, faded away into fastnesses of impregnable desolation. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance But it did not quite vanish; it held its wraithlike outlines, and in a moment began sliding silently backward. The White Invaders The mist of the afternoon had scattered before a faint sea-wind, and settled wraithlike in the hollows of the hills across the bay. Where the Sun Swings North But it is a wraithlike thing, and undulates and falls before our eyes like flames that have neither redness nor heat. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Five minutes later Judy was whirling, wraithlike in the white light of the moon, which turned her scarlet trappings to silver. Judy Across the flat horizon the mist hung in wraithlike forms of cloudy gray, and the deep grass into which they plunged their feet was beaded with dew. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame Another second passed; it was visibly growing tenuous, wraithlike! The White Invaders From afar they spied the tall figure of Dependence Crymble passing wraithlike to and fro across the yard. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The massive lines of the chair made her proportions seem wraithlike. The Gay Cockade Later, when the Baron had departed, Philip flushed suddenly at the ugly suspicion rising wraithlike in his mind. Diane of the Green Van And yet—the face of the squaw rose before her, wraithlike, accusing! Judith of the Plains But in all, at least a thousand wraithlike figures of men must have been seen. The White Invaders The young moon shed only a wan and wraithlike radiance over the plain. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border Waves of heat floated wraithlike from the yellow stubble, bathing the distant hills in an arid-blue haze. Broken to the Plow And out of its foam, wraithlike, rose a marble Aphrodite, white limbed, bathed in light. Every Soul Hath Its Song His body was so frail, so wraithlike, that one almost expected to see through it the magnificent tapestries on the walls. The Story of a Pioneer How bitterly I've cursed it, oh, the Painted Desert knows, The wraithlike heights that hug the pallid plain, The all-but-fluid silence, — yet the longing grows and grows, And I've got to glut the Wanderlust again. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Periods of modified darkness intervened, when the face of the girl in her corner seemed a vision subtle and wraithlike. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf He lay for hours, open-eyed, in the gloom, while wraithlike memories materialized and vanished as mysteriously. Broken to the Plow Vague, silent, dim, the wraithlike men stood by, peering with bent brows, just as Dante described the lost souls in Hell peering at Virgil in the eternal night. Darkness and Dawn Pictures I had seen of famine victims passed wraithlike before me. Autobiography of a Yogi At last he saw the ship, a wraithlike thing in its piled-up bed of ice, and he stopped. Back to God's Country and Other Stories A thrill pierced to Verrian's heart; she was indeed wraithlike, so that he hated to have her call, "How will that do?" Fennel and Rue For, each wraithlike smoke-swirl meant the death of tree and shrub. Further Adventures of Lad He called down maledictions on those two strange, impassive, wraithlike forms hardly more than half seen in the darkness and fog. Darkness and Dawn Only now and then, in a strange, projected, wraithlike effect, the moon ray glinted timidly on the tip of a nickel dial, and, ghostlike, disclosed a human hand. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale The tall naked treetops stood gaunt and wraithlike against a leaden sky. Further Adventures of Lad |
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