ghostliness

NOUN
  1. strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
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How To Use ghostliness In A Sentence

  • In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse. India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
  • After still having method of a few patients, resemble ghostliness and same loaf about everywhere, want to dominate this kind of secondary action with medicaments ability.
  • They are often populated by solitary horses which simultaneously transmit ghostliness and, conversely, surprising weighty presence.
  • Were one asked what aspects of Hamlet does Forbes-Robertson specially embody, I should say, in the first place, his princeliness, his ghostliness, then his cynical and occasionally madcap humour, as where, at the end of the play-scene, he capers behind the throne in a terrible boyish glee. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
  • Getty Images Zola Jesus Zola Jesus is the working name of a 22-year-old woman who sounds considerably more advanced in age—maybe even into the hundreds of years, if ghostliness could be properly accounted for. The Taming of the Scene
  • After still having method of a few patients, resemble ghostliness and same loaf about everywhere, want to dominate this kind of secondary action with medicaments ability.
  • So far I have been assuming an understanding of ghosts and ghostliness, blithely employing these terms as if they were commonly understood, let alone accepted.
  • SaraphinaMarie 12:15 am: I am realizing my whole foundation of ghostliness is in YA stuff from the 1980s Transcript: Ghosts! « Coyote Con
  • I took one last glance at the house, torn between its nostalgia and ghostliness, and jogged over to the car kicking up wet sand behind me as I did.
  • A towering perennial, which takes on a stately ghostliness by late autumn, it needs a sheltered spot away from strong winds, which might buffet the stems to breaking point.
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