How To Use Ectoplasm In A Sentence
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That's not smoke, it's wadding, which I'd been using to simulate ectoplasm.
Photographer Victoria Jenkins's best shot
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From where we are today, there is something naive about the more literal manifestations of spiritualism: the ectoplasmic materialisations, the ventriloquial productions and the psychokinetic feats.
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Dismiss Ectoplasm. Dissipates ectoplasmic targets.
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The body is globular with but slight differentiation into ectoplasm and endoplasm; one nucleus in the latter; contractile vacuoles one or many; pseudopodia on all sides, thin, and with peripheral granule-streaming; surrounded by a globular, rather thick coat of jelly, which is hyaline inside and granular on the periphery.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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And I don't ever recall blobs of ectoplasm running out her nose and ears.
The Trouble with Witches
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(One of my sons considered "ectoplasm" the ugliest word he knew.)
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This entity was supposed to be a manifestation or thought-form akin to the ectoplasm that is generated by mediums while in a trance state.
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They studied automatic writing, levitation, and reports of ectoplasmic and poltergeist activity.
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In this form (fig. 5) there is no distinction between ectoplasm and endoplasm, and there is an entire absence of vacuoles.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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His more recent emergence as a hard-knuckled genre specialist, in tandem with the rigorously buff Mr. Mortensen, may have dispensed with the ectoplasmic jollies so dear to his base.
Histories and Mysteries
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For spirits to appear, for ectoplasm to emanate, for UFOs to descend, darkness is essential.
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The question then arose of how the dead could influence the physical world, and one answer was that they used a substance called ectoplasm.
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From the fingers in which he'd claimed he could already feel the Art quickening beads of power oozed like ectoplasm, bursting in the air.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Specters sometimes drifted throughout the area, watching him with disconcertingly blank faces of incorporeal ectoplasm and dematerializing seconds later.
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'That's not smoke, it's some wadding I'd been using to simulate ectoplasm.
Photographer Victoria Jenkins's best shot
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The Baldwins also have a small collection of photos containing what appears to be ectoplasm.
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It is the intellect, the will, as an Emperor of Ectoplasm, enthroned in the kingdom of the skull.
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In some cases ectoplasm and endoplasm can be distinguished.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. Schrenk-Notzing, Charles Richet (who coined the word ectoplasm) plus numerous other investigators worldwide spent extensive time and money analyzing the exploits of many channellers and mediums.
Dan Aykroyd: About Ghosts
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Much like unexposed photographic paper, an ectoplasm was ruined when flooded with white light and could only be seen, if briefly, under red lamps similar to those used to illuminate darkrooms.
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Most photographs of ectoplasm make it look like the kind of stuff you could pick up at the local yardage store or buy from Amazon.
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There is not one single ethereal, ectoplasmic ghost on the whole tribe.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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Since ectoplasmic excretions are not ghosts per se, the camera's role in the phenomenon was not to capture spirits but to witness human contact with spirits, record the manifestation in action, and document its fragile by-products.
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This entity was supposed to be a manifestation or thought-form akin to the ectoplasm that is generated by mediums while in a trance state.
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Most engineers are right-handed, and the brain ectoplasm seeps across into the writing: we find that “experimentalists” on the one hand, and “metrical-obsessives’, on the other (hand), are almost always right-handed.
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He dominates this show from the start, greeting you on a huge screen with his upside-down face, spewing out six metres of gauze like some psychic medium ejecting ectoplasm.
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By contrast, ectoplasm photographs depict a human medium in the throes of violent struggle with an invisible entity.
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Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves 'heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive.
Spook by Mary Roach: Book summary
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The fact that these ectoplasms are not living is not an objection at all: there is nothing to prevent us from admitting that the ectoplasm may be merely an image, and not a living being.
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She began to feel terribly cold as she plummeted through the depths of the pond, feeling its matter travel through her body, through her skin and bones and internal organs like some ghostly ectoplasm.
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You know that there was something like 100,000 Jewish survivors (scroll down to 1946) after world war two but that now there are 350,000 of them because they are reproducing through some kind of ectoplasm precipitation process.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Security services and politicians, at a loss to know what's next, are more anxious than they let on about an ectoplasmic enemy.
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I want to loathe Blair, but I am forever mindful of the fact that ... in the real world, in the long run, as opposed to the rarefied ectoplasmic, legalistic fantasy-land of the peaceniks we must endure babbling about us ... in that real world, in the long run, that invasion may have saved my neck and the society I live in.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Or it may take the more material form of the exudation of a strange white evanescent dough-like substance called the ectoplasm, which has been frequently photographed by scientific enquirers in different stages of its evolution, and which seems to possess an inherent quality of shaping itself into parts or the whole of a body, beginning in a putty-like mould and ending in a resemblance to perfect human members.
The Vital Message
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Maria's problems with the other world were one kind - clients could be put off their stroke by ectoplasm.
SPLITTING
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From the fingers in which he'd claimed he could already feel the Art quickening beads of power oozed like ectoplasm, bursting in the air.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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But because the target was too high a level for the spell, the amount of ectoplasmic energy wasn't sufficient to reach the critical threshold, which essentially means that he starts out with a negative number of hit points.
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The third way in which ectoplasm images articulate the referentiality of photography via the body builds upon the first two.
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Mr. Jackson has, in the past, done remarkable work with the uneasy departed, from the flesh-eating zombies of “Dead Alive” (1992) to the ectoplasmic pranksters of “The Frighteners” (1996) to, perhaps most memorably, the army of irritable spirits who come to the aid of Aragorn and Gandalf in the climactic battle of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003).
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He shudders as Jack leaves his body, trailing ectoplasm and humming ‘I'm the Wolf.’
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It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead.
SACRAMENT
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The spectacle of the female medium in pain - a body often tied down, exposed in various stages of undress, or both - threatens to overshadow the curious display of flocculent ectoplasmic oozings and their iconographic content.
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It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead.
SACRAMENT
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Burroughs is fond too of the word "ectoplasm," and the beings that surround Lee, particularly the inimical ones, seem ectoplasmic phantoms projected on the wide screen of his consciousness from a mass séance.
Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
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Later I discovered that the carpet was drenched with a foul smelling liquid that I can only assume is ectoplasm.
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The intergalactic-ectoplasmic smackdown ends Tuesday.
Colorado Flying-Saucer Believers Have Ghost Hunters in Their Sights
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Ectoplasmic production seems to overcome the medium, as if internal systems, such as respiration, reproduction, and digestion, are forcing excretions out of the body's orifices.
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Maria's problems with the other world were one kind - clients could be put off their stroke by ectoplasm.
SPLITTING
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Eva C Carriere, a medium who had originally used her real name, Marthe Beraud, until she was exposed, claimed to be able to produce large quantities of a strange, otherworldly substance called ectoplasm, which was thought to be produced by the bioenergy of the spirits.
The Secret Life of Houdini
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There is no doubt, as he claims, some rough analogy, but the dermoid cyst is, at least, in the same flesh and blood plane of nature as the foetus inside it, while in the ectoplasm we are dealing with an entirely new and strange development.
The Vital Message
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I do believe in one of the photos it does show some dust, but the rest look like ectoplasm with orbs.
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It's a handsome book, with bold typography and an atmospheric picture of a woman in a dark coat, walking into ectoplasmic mist.
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Genus ACTINOPHRYS Ehr. The body is spherical and differentiated into granular endoplasm and vacuolated ectoplasm, but the zones are not definitely separated.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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In this condition ectoplasm and endoplasm could be made out with the clearest definition.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved.
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Physical manifestations or ‘materializations’ of spirits are also said to be produced by ectoplasm.
