| 单词 | revenant |
| 例句 | I lift my weapon, focusing on Miss Duncan and trying to decide if she is indeed a revenant instead of thinking about the deep burning in my poor scrawny arms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was only his revenant who remained, the small vengeful ghost who throttled Shae and put a crossbow bolt through the great Lord Tywin’s bowels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Our revenant rowed to the side of a dock and held it with one hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Even the French title — “Les Revenants” — is ambiguous; the English loanword, “revenant,” means “one that returns after death or a long absence.” Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Every zombie flick gets to establish its own rules for how these revenants function. Despair all ye who board the joyless "Train to Busan" sequel, where even the zombies feel generic 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z What sets them apart, though, from the usual revenants is that they are ghosts of the man who conjures them. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Love is a recurrent theme, often between a studious young man and an enigmatic beauty of unknown background who, alas, generally turns out to be a revenant or were-vixen. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But if she is a revenant from an age before Prozac, Sabina is also an uncannily modern spirit, whose torments are as recognizable as her symptoms are outlandish. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture. Books of The Times: The Sting of Salt Air, Old Loves and Honey Bees 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z Any Jamesian will be surprised at how much new light Murphy casts on these eerie tales of revenants and demons. Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven’t heard yet. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Kindred revenants have haunted Smith’s highly regarded novel “Hotel World” and her exhilarating hybrid of Gothic fiction and aesthetic theory, “Artful.” ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In some ways, Richard was like one of the revenants from The Returned. You Win Or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empire’s Finale 2013-11-25T15:53:00Z Sometimes people don't entirely die: revenants and vampires are not unknown in Bradbury's work. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z There’s also no shortfall of ghosts, revenants and otherness in Ms. Kiernan’s “Two Worlds and In Between.” Books of The Times: Caitl?n R. Kiernan, Geoff Ryman and Tim Powers Tales - Review 2011-10-23T21:37:18Z “Explaining something makes it go away,” Gorey once said, and like the revenants in his pictures, he planned to stay a while. A New Biography Takes on Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and Master of the Comic Macabre 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Terror crept in around the edges, until, in the season finale, a horde of revenants emerged from the countryside to demand that the town’s risen join them. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The most astonishing visitors, however, are the ghost of Boonmee's late wife and his long-lost son, who may or may not be a revenant. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ? review 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z Agatha is alive, but by far the most frightening revenant in the movie. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Hesse, in contrast, is a revenant from a cooler, smokier, scruffier decade, eternally and intriguingly youthful. Review: ‘Eva Hesse’ Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Brief Life 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z A “revenant” refers to “a dead person who returns in a physical body.” Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But in spite of the ghouls and revenants and other morbid players from the sidewalk boneyard, Halloween is a holiday for the living. Ghostly Presence 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z I’m especially interested in the enigmatic “revenant,” Maram, who becomes a local healer after escaping from slavery. The National Book Awards' translated-lit longlist is here. Of course David Diop is on it 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns. Opinion: Don't call it a comeback: California's Tulare Lake never really went away 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z James’s tales of revenants and demons are to supernatural fiction. Review | Why M.R. James is the Arthur Conan Doyle of supernatural fiction 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z “There is, incidentally, nothing odd in the revenant being a woman,” Rady said of the Polish case. ‘Vampire’ grave shows 17th-century fear of women who ‘didn’t fit in’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence. Here's what's screening at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z In other words, the Biden administration shuffles onto the scene already a revenant; it can only offer a revivified formula of the same neoliberal strategy which has already exhausted itself in earlier decades. What can the left expect from a Biden-Harris administration? Pretty much nothing 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Fife officials note that Adie’s grave is the only known example of a “revenant” burial in Scotland, where the burial was designed to prevent the deceased from “rising from the grave.” ‘Witch hunt' launched in Scotland as officials seek remains of 'witch' who died 315 years ago 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z If you’re of a particular temperament - a true Music Head, for example - you can almost get spiritual about the revenant power represented by the history contained on all that vinyl. Mystic Disc named among the country’s best 50 record stores 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The concerto features a solemn chorale and bits of folk song revenants, occasionally shattered by high-pitched woodwinds or percussive explosions of orchestral sound. What does 'crazed virtuosity' sound like? Jennifer Koh delivers her answer with L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z And I was like” — Rudolph affected the faraway stare of a revenant — “ ‘My daughter’s sick. How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Most of these shambling data revenants are computer viruses and the most long-lived of all are worms. Why some computer viruses refuse to die 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It is apparent that they are revenants in a kind of afterlife, their only pleasure articles from old English magazines about fly fishing and cricket. Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z She was not only given the burial common for suicides but the large stone was placed over her, another folk remedy for revenants, to weigh them down so they can't get up and come back. How to bury a witch 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z "Norman was deeply sensitive and full of doubt," says Rushdie, as the revenant writer wanders the room. Matthew Barney: 'My work is not for everyone' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Inside, the walls will be decorated with framed revenants of the room’s high-oxygen heyday. Reviving Elaine’s Without Elaine 2013-12-06T20:21:54Z However, as he describes in Naturwissenschaften, when he and his team examined the area, they were stunned to discover a revenant from this cataclysm just 50 metres from the crater. Dendrochronology: Not always the ring of truth 2013-06-20T15:05:37Z This may be the only instance in history of a piece of political geography surviving its own demise, and becoming a cartographic revenant. | Borderlines: Put It in Neutral 2012-05-01T23:49:01Z Unchallenged, glad I trod, a revenant In worlds Edenic longly lost; Or walked in spheres that sing to these, O'er space no light has crossed, Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone uptossed To Heaven's angelic chant. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z To his beloved pays des revenants, Martinique, his mind constantly reverted, with an Ahnung that he should never see it again. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z But there is no doubt that the majority of us would prefer encountering a human rather than a four-footed "revenant." Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z Now, when she thought of him at all, it was as of some revenant of kindly countenance from a half-forgotten dream. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z What was the woman I saw; a revenant in the flesh?” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z It will probably limp along for another season or two, a reality-show revenant, before giving up the ghost. Why Is 'Top Chef Masters' So Depressing? 2011-04-13T09:15:00Z Although the European ghost or "revenant" is unknown, the spirits of near ancestors may appear in dreams, and express their wishes to the living. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z "If revenants knew what nonsense is put into their spectral mouths by noodles and charlatans, they would never return to be made spectral pilgarlics of." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z I know that in Parisian society Felix is called 'le revenant,' for which name he has naturally to thank some kind Austrian. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The "Gallery" is for us now a revenant of a past and somewhat impossible generation. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Another song, widely scattered in varying versions throughout France, is of the forsaken and too trustful maid,—'En revenant des Noces.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 I had the belief, derived from several writers, that Hinthial in Etruscan meant simply a ghost or revenant—the apparition of some one dead. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series "En revenant de la Revue;" Stick to me, I'll stick to you. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 It is by the strength of the revenant, by the return of his soul into his body? The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. For the moment he took them, by the dim light, for the revenants of drowned men; while his mate, a Breton, rose on his elbow and shrieked aloud. The Wild Geese Ghosts, we have called them, mainly to humor a figure we began with, but they are ghosts rather in the meaning of revenants, which is a good meaning enough. Imaginary Interviews Perhaps indeed it was the presence of some such invisible, haunting revenant whispering at his ear, longing even for some contact with healthy humanity, that had given him the wistful sense of mystery and longing. Beside Still Waters During his Congressional career, the government was little more than an attaché of the French legation, and the opposition to which he belonged a helpless revenant from the dead and buried Colonial past. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 America had not yellowed her as it usually had the revenants. Love of Brothers One seems to see him, a languid-limbed "revenant," with heavy-lidded drowsy eyes and voluptuous lips, emerging all swathed and wrapped in costly cerements out of the tomb of some Babylonian king. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations At best a revenant could only rattle a rusty skeleton, or shake a moldy shroud, or clank a chain—but as mortals cowered before his demonstrations, he didn't worry. Humorous Ghost Stories "You are now one of us; a revenant, even as I, and to live you must feed on the living." Each Man Kills Somehow, the idea of a revenant Beta curve didn't make up for the basic loss. Pagan Passions For them it is instructive to see the ancien régime, which enacted its tragedy with them, playing its comedy as the German revenant. Selected Essays Oh, I knew her— This loathly revenant, revisiting The glimpses of the moon. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 The modern specter can be a joyous creature on occasion, as he can be, when he wishes, fearsome beyond the dreams of classic or Gothic revenant. Humorous Ghost Stories But there is more to killing a revenant than that. Each Man Kills But stop a moment—granted success, how shall we talk with our Inca revenant? The Romance of Golden Star ... Spirits might be called the outstanding feature of our harbour, for the Piquenais rocks at the very entrance are the abode of another familiar revenant. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour We didn't bring you back from the dead, piecing your scattered atoms together with your scattered revenant particle by particle, to have you killed again. The Sky Is Falling Of the early specimens of the really amusing ghost that is an actual revenant is The Ghost Baby, in Blackwood's, which shows originality and humor, yet is too diffuse for printing here. Humorous Ghost Stories We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about. Orthodoxy It does away with the French word for ghost—revenant. The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year On the other hand, some revenants are so successfully made up that one doesn't believe them when they pridefully announce that they are wraiths. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Even his ghosts are un-Celtic, misty and unsubstantial phantasms, unlike the embodied revenants of the saga which are in agreement with the Celtic belief that the soul assumed a body in the other world. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The Boulanger March, with its song, "En revenant de la revue," was played and sung in all the cafés chantants of Paris. France in the Nineteenth Century The stories in this book are of revenants: persons who either in spirit or in body revisit old scenes, return upon old selves or old emotions, or relate a message from a world beyond perception. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts “It might account for her seeing this revenant cavalier in any passenger,” said Lauzun, not satisfied yet. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago They have more strength, of mind as well as of body, than the colorless revenants of earlier literature, and they produce a more vivid effect on the beholder and the reader. Famous Modern Ghost Stories So, instead of "En revenant de la Revue," let it be "En rêvant à la Revue." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 A revenant who lived one hundred years ago might pick up this volume and secure a fairly accurate idea of society to-day. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 One of the tales, "Once Aboard the Lugger," is itself a revenant. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Napoleon when he returned was indeed a revenant, that is, a ghost. The Crimes of England He had come back to find strangers in his home, relatives at law concerning his estate, and himself regarded as an intruder among the living,—an unlucky guest, a revenant ... Chita: a Memory of Last Island And a good many revenants visited me during that hour of meditation. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons The EU can punish the revenant nations of the communist bloc with the same dedication and effectiveness with which it has hitherto rewarded them. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism Meantime, the point is—what becomes of the refused, those unwelcome revenants that return to lower the artist in the eyes of landladies and concierges? Without Prejudice As usual amongst Fetish worshippers, the only trace of belief in a future state is faith in revenants—returning men or ghosts. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Thus, is a marvelous fiat of spin-doctoring, economic immigrants became revenant sons. Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era In that calm, sunny afternoon, life seemed a strange phantasmal business, and I myself a revenant from some thin, unsubstantial world. The Altar Fire The EU can punish the revenant nations of the communist bloc with the same dedication and effectiveness with which it has hitherto rewarded them. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism It seemed, indeed, that even now some ghost, some revenant of himself was sitting there, in the old green churchyard, roofed only with a thousand thousand stars. The Return EU enlargement is a thinly disguised exercise in mercantilism tinged with the maudlin ideology of embracing revenant brothers long lost to communism. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism No one present, then no revenant or spook, or astral body, or hallucination: what's in a name? The Return |
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