How To Use Spectre In A Sentence

The news of more cuts has raised the spectre of redundancies once again.
It also raises the spectre of the American taxman taking retrospective action against scores of US companies that have moved offshore in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
The British are still reticent about their deepest fears - class war, a reversion to economic feudalism, the spectre of an all-dominant and all-vapid consumer society.
But the spectre of kamikaze strikes makes any talk of the potentially positive contribution nuclear energy could make to a balanced and renewable energy supply fraught with difficulty.

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Spectre is the longest Bond yet because of the extra helpings of explosive action. The Sun
So, too, does the unremitting spectre of war. The Times Literary Supplement
There is a spectre haunting movieland. Times, Sunday Times
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
We should never under-estimate the pushback we'll see from those who feel threatened by the spectre of 30 million Canadians armed with equal and effective votes.
Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival. The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action.
The looming spectres raised by her mother’s information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad. The Hand of Ethelberta
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre. The Egoist
For the believers in society and community, however, such views raised the spectre of lawlessness and anarchic self-indulgence.
Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action.
It raises the spectre of a self-induced, albeit temporary, recession in the world's biggest economy and a consequent reduction in demand for Irish exports which now exceed €100 billion.
The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater.
Still, as his career continues, Dynamo finds that a certain spectre of the past keeps popping up … Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
All the powers of 'globalism' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
Britain's most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming "footsoldiers" in a wave of potentially violent mass protests. Printing: Coming Soon-- Riots in America?
The invective I saw on these threads particularly from the one I referred to as the fragrant one (now disappeared) was never true, nor were her accusations, but you were a different story - never rude, a sensible and balanced lady but totally appalled by the spectre of an Obama presidency - what I am really asking you is why you are so out of sync with the mass of intelligent Americans thatI have spoken to or heard. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Roi Faineant, King Donothing; but with the strangest new Mayor of the Palace: no bow-legged Pepin now, but that same cloud-capt, fire-breathing Spectre of DEMOCRACY; incalculable, which is enveloping the world! The French Revolution
Of course the HR dept will state that they are keen to ensure that "equalities" within the organization are maintained and that any spectre of "racism" will be robustly investigated. UP Pompeii
Called Sigh No More, the most dread spectre it conjures up is that the 1990s "crusties" are back. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
Instead of Smashing Pumpkins, the music this time was some sort of gospel-like orchestral played over some of the best visuals from the film, including Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing while a nuke explodes behind them, extended shots of Rorschach and the ink changing in his mask, and the scene where the original Minutemen are getting their photo taken. Comic-Con 08: This Year's Best Panels and Footage « FirstShowing.net
Civil war was the spectre they feared most. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The spectre of bank collapse from foreign loans has been averted by bailouts and promises of bailout from the Federal Reserve, the nation's only manufacturer of dollars, which it can produce at will.
Combined with the spectres of disease and hunger, the cold is expected to claim the lives of many who survived the initial earthquake.
The train, with its dim lights, stood there like a monster spectre in the dark.
Jamieson, a lawyer, raised the spectre of legal trouble for the assembly if chiefs were not allowed to vote.
The new South Africa is confronted by the spectre of an ever-expanding army of unemployed and unemployable youth.
I would welcome them to bring back Spectrenot that the legalities have been resolved and introducing a new M monal on Dec 21, 2009 Screenwriter Peter Morgan Says Bond 23 Has a 'Shocking Story' « FirstShowing.net
Their necromantic forms in vain Haunt us on the tented plain; We bid these spectre shapes avaunt, Ashtaroth and Termagaunt. The Talisman
The spectre of Thomas's brutal occupation is always there to hint that he could use his skills for vengeful justice.
There is not a sport within the Olympic movement that does not have a cloud hanging over it in terms of the spectre of drug abuse.
A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic. Red shift
The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
a fish-shaped flyswatter with blue horns, fermented lemures, fiery spectres, embottled spirit vapors swirling in the crude next to the Soft Scrub, the vinegared and leistered sealed in tins, delicious with saltines, gleaned spikelets, used-up votives .... The New Yorker
Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.
The spectre of public drinking, in your face stuff, groups of undesirables blocking doorways and paths, shouting abuse at passers-by, is again becoming the norm.
Doctors' emphasis on the mildness or earliness of the condition raised the spectre of future pain and disability rather than providing reassurance.
Unequal access to water will lead us to disputes and war, and heading off that spectre is also what skilled politicians exist for.
They both sensed the spectre's presence at the same time.
How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books. Everyman's Library
That was the Fed's first rate hike in four years, driven by growing evidence of a strengthening U.S. labour market and the spectre of new inflationary pressures.
Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government.
For bond owners, a slowdown in the world economy raises the spectre that borrowers will fail to repay their debts. Times, Sunday Times
Further:The spectre of Greece being plunged into ungovernability -- as if the political shenanigans and ongoings in Athens do not already resemble a Moliere farce – will, it seems, save Papandreou's skin. Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
The news of more cuts has raised the spectre of redundancies once again.
The sell-off was caused by lacklustre global growth and the spectre of deflation. Times, Sunday Times
Biological, chemical and nuclear threats have all figured large, as has the spectre of the suicide bomber or pilot.
For while no spectator can deny their claims to a most solemn and superstitious consideration, no more than my firmest resolutions can decline to behold the spectre-tortoise when emerging from its shadowy recess; yet even the tortoise, dark and melancholy as it is upon the back, still possesses a bright side; its calipee or breast-plate being sometimes of a faint yellowish or golden tinge. The Piazza Tales
The palace at Versailles was for Louis a haunted house in which spectres of his great-grandfather mingled with the memories and traces of his lost loved ones.
The move raised the spectre of Russia as a bully, a country ready to make its neighbours freeze if they defied its wishes. Times, Sunday Times
In the image, this spectre can be seen. The Sun
Of course, any such attempt is constrained by the spectre of a nuclear war, whose bogey is very calculatingly turned off and on by the country's government officials.
Not knowing her to be a spectre he hallooed to her to stay for him, but receiving no answer thought she was deaf.
Spectres, likewise, are these saintly caricatures of humanity, perambulating metaphysics, the application _in corpore vili_ of Oriental fakirism. Old Calabria
The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
The looming spectres raised by her mother's information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad. The Hand of Ethelberta
One would think that this spectre would galvanise the concerned authorities into mobilising all the resources at their disposal.
McGuire is resigned to being called a doom-monger and makes no apology for raising another bleak spectre: a volcanic winter.
The spectre of further development of the green fields around Swindon is looming.
The train, with its dim lights, stood there like a monster spectre in the dark.
The spectre of "gazundering" is haunting Britain's slumping property market for the first time since the housing crisis of the early 1990s, a new survey has found. House Price Crash News Blog
One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. Les Miserables
He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
Aside from Brexit, one of the main topics at the meeting was the spectre of currency wars. Times, Sunday Times
But despite his absence his spectre dominates the campaign trail.
No : SPECTRE . Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
Some saw the irrational spectre of money illusion lurking menacingly in the wings.
In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding.
For Kent, there is the spectre of relegation. Times, Sunday Times
The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action.
The spectre of Belsen and Buchenwald is haunting South Africa. Articles written by Nelson Mandela for Liberation, 1955-59
And the ghost also wears his periwig, which is so ridiculous that any self-respecting spectre would refuse to copy it. The Queen Pedauque
It's not just the spectre of middle-age spread and elasticated waistbands that drives me on. Times, Sunday Times
Either of these would make excellent narrative fodder, but I fear exposure through specific disclosure and the spectre of losing my job.
What about the spectre of deflation? Times, Sunday Times
Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government.
The chestnut colt is the second foal out of Grade 2 winner Prospectress, by Mining.
The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus.
Overdependence on a single operating system also raises the spectre of one really bad virus.
The first half could best be described as soporific, the encounter displaying all the characteristics of a scrap that had the spectre of relegation very much at the banquet. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
On the extreme contrary, today's Department of Defense leadership is awash with a tsunami of fundamentalist Christian religious predators, literally 'hellbent' on using the draconian spectre of military command influence not only to unconstitutionally force helpless subordinate service men and women to accept their own biblical worldview, but to turn their subordinates into religious predators themselves. Chris Rodda: Gen. Schwarzkopf: If You're Not Too Busy, Could You Please Come Back and Knock Some Heads Around?
'What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming. CHAPTER 21
Jack, thy wit being blinded, and full of gross vapors, by reason of the perturbations of fear (which, like anger, is a short madness, and raises in the phantasy vain spectres, — videlicet, of sharks and Spaniards), mistakes our lucidity. Westward Ho!
The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
These go largely unmentioned but, for followers of provincial politics, hover over the entire story like the spectre of death in DeLillo's White Noise.
In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother. Angelica by Arthur Phillips: Book summary
Europe also faces the spectre of deflation and this week its central bank meets to decide how to stave it off. Times, Sunday Times
In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously.
The spectre of Chicago 1968 looms, when police unleashed a brutal assault on anti Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic convention.
The castle itself was haunted, and not just be family ghosts like the Manor, but by terrifying blood drenched spectres, ghouls and a poltergeist.
This sentiment is all but jettisoned, alas, by the time Snyder recasts the pathetic victories of sexually-reawakened schlub Night Owl (Patrick Wilson) and paramour Silk Spectre (a severely overmatched Malin Akerman) as triumphant victories. Saturday Night’s All Right for Blogging « Gerry Canavan
One risk is that the cerebral edema induced by the hypo-osmolality is clearly a bad thing and should not be allowed to persist and worsen and on the other hand there is the somewhat mysterious spectre of osmotic demyelination which is typically referred to by one of it forms namely central pontine myelinolysis. Archive 2007-05-01
The spectre of legal action hangs over the end of the affair. Times, Sunday Times
But with the spectre of The Hague on the horizon, perhaps this desperate, defensive fumbling is all it has left. Archive 2009-12-01
The spectre of relegation in April has this effect on the most experienced of old pros. Times, Sunday Times
The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy.
Like other "supersensible" categories, capital haunts the empirically observable process of commodity circulation - a social spectre with no body of its own. 1 Marx describes a plausible empiricist reaction from the perspective of commodity circulation to capital's apparently mysterious, occult qualities: Roughtheory.org
The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
That was the Fed's first rate hike in four years, driven by growing evidence of a strengthening U.S. labour market and the spectre of new inflationary pressures.
Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years.
'What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming. CHAPTER 21
What becomes portable, therefore, in subsequent performances of the oratorio, is its ability to call forth the anxious spectre of French aggression and the supposedly dire consequences of political apostasy or reform. Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
The spectre, who wears Victorian costume, has apparently been seen several times by the hotel's male night porter and male guests.
It keeps the spectre of death at bay. Times, Sunday Times
Though the cook had a cubby-hole of a state-room opening off from the cabin, in the cabin itself he had never dared to linger or to be seen, and he flitted to and fro, once or twice a day, a timid spectre. Chapter 8
To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
It's not just the spectre of middle-age spread and elasticated waistbands that drives me on. Times, Sunday Times
The dark spectre of relegation moves closer by the day. Times, Sunday Times
Something has to change, surely, if the spectre of relegation is not to appear again. Times, Sunday Times
Still, that would not have answered; even the biographer's enemy could not be cruel enough to ask him to let this real grievance, this compact and substantial and picturesque figure, this rawhead-and-bloody-bones, come striding in there among those pale shams, those rickety spectres labeled WET-NURSE, BONNET-SHOP, and so on -- no, the father of all malice could not ask the biographer to expose his pathetic goblins to a competition like that. In Defence of Harriet Shelley
It's up to The Spectre, The Question and Batwoman to take down the minions of Darkseid before all hope is lost in this title collecting the 5-issue miniseries! Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The hooded poncho he wears during the third act is clearly designed to look as much like a superhero cape as possible, and is reminiscent of DC Comics supernatural hero Spectre.
This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
These spectres exist in different temporal dimensions.
The mere mention of the words ‘far right’ calls forth an image of tattooed boneheads or the spectre of the notorious Ku Klux Klan.
Roles such as the Golden Slave in Scheherazade, the Poet in Les Sylphides, the tragic puppet in Petrouchka, and the airborne androgyne in Le Spectre de la rose were forever marked by the imprint of his personality.
The ease with which he could jump from a crisis of British farming to the spectre of biological warfare highlighted the salience of fear as a political resource today.
Biological, chemical and nuclear threats have all figured large, as has the spectre of the suicide bomber or pilot.
The destruction raised the spectre of a return to the civil war which ravaged the north African country in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
Labour will today vow not to raise VAT in an attempt to raise the spectre of a further increase under the Tories. Times, Sunday Times
Mormo was a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia.
subterranean folk" who dwelt there, and whom he described as a spectre herd, with little, ugly, pale, or bluish human shapes, dotted in grey, and with black head-gear. Strife and Peace
The silk spectre is what I call my jizz at it makes its way through the air on to my mothers face. FOX, WB, ‘CLOSE’ TO WATCHMEN ‘SETTLEMENT’
The Spectre, without stirring, and with its unwinking, cruel eyes still fixed upon his face, went on: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
I call our shepherdess Honorine even though perhaps not infallibly naming the sociable soubrette who might, with all her gay bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided. A Small Boy and Others
No wonder that mental illness is the spectre stalking the highest echelons of music. Times, Sunday Times
Though there are no statistics on custodial violence, it is a spectre that continues to haunt society.
The spectre of nimbyism will make it even harder to meet targets, she said. Localism is making housing shortage worse, warns new report
Two days of heavy bombing by F-16 jets and AC-130 Spectre gunships brought a total of at least 270 bombs and missiles in the first two days of combat, including a thermobaric cave-busting bomb.
Whether he is writing about the Renaissance necromancer John Dee or the religious visions of Thomas More, Ackroyd energetically reanimates his historical personages, and insists their spectres are still tangible here and now.
Either of these would make excellent narrative fodder, but I fear exposure through specific disclosure and the spectre of losing my job.
They both sensed the spectre's presence at the same time.
It opens with Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, the 1911 ballet with which Vaslav Nijinsky legendarily reinvented the image of the male dancer, leaping on stage in a pink-petalled costume – athletically virile and exquisitely perfumed. Men in Motion – review
The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.
The destruction raised the spectre of a return to the civil war which ravaged the north African country in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
The violence has raised the spectre of civil war.
The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy.
Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
There were Ghosts, plain and simple: mere bogies, fully conscious of their own decay, who had accepted the traditional role of the spectre, and seemed to hope they could frighten someone.
The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
The living spectre of the macho, lantern-jawed actor who, depending on which source you refer to, may or may not become an octogenarian in October, keeps returning to haunt me like the Holy Ghost.
Other times it will lurch lower, raising the spectre of deflation. Times, Sunday Times
He is presenting himself as a man who has little time for the chattering classes, the academics and lawyers and newspaper columnists who will recoil from the spectre of reviving chain gangs, and all the time in the world for the people he describes as "hard-working Ontarians who play by the rules. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.
Jamieson, a lawyer, raised the spectre of legal trouble for the assembly if chiefs were not allowed to vote.
Then the spectre began to laugh, the noise a deep, ominous rasp which snuffed out the spark of hope that had briefly lit Robert's soul.
Even our Reviewer finds evidence to "substantiate" that, given against George Burroughs, resting on spectres, in his feats of strength, in some malignant neighborhood scandals, and in exaggerated forms of parish or personal animosities. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.
This conjures up the ominous spectre of the internet transforming the 'analogue' school into a digital panopticon. Times, Sunday Times
The third spectre was the most depressing of all. Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
The ease with which he could jump from a crisis of British farming to the spectre of biological warfare highlighted the salience of fear as a political resource today.
The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action.
No wonder that mental illness is the spectre stalking the highest echelons of music. Times, Sunday Times
But if the new fee changes bed down satisfactorily, that spectre may be seen off. Times, Sunday Times
The irrational spectre of money illusion is often seen to lie behind the complex facade of income-expenditure models derived from the system.
They talk about it less now than they did a week ago, but the spectre of it is omnipresent.
Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
The familiar spectre of drought and famine has reared its ugly head again.
The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
That cult classic television series dealt with a reporter who, in investigating a series of bizarre murders, would always come across some supernatural spectre from the past. Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars
Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
It was in vain to expostulate with the palefaced Spectre who directed our course, I found myself surrounded by a hubbub of voices, and trunks of old clothes, (you know I am always busy in that way in my sleep) and the roar of the Sea-beach, mingled with loud discharges of immense Artillery place'd on Cliffs over our heads. Letter 289
One risk is that the cerebral edema induced by the hypo-osmolality is clearly a bad thing and should not be allowed to persist and worsen and on the other hand there is the somewhat mysterious spectre of osmotic demyelination which is typically referred to by one of it forms namely central pontine myelinolysis. SIADH or SIAD-where did the "h" go and does it matter?
The performance against Italy raised the spectre of a repeat. Times, Sunday Times
The spectre of deflation returns to Japan timesonline. Times, Sunday Times
Materialism (as evinced in Lockean associationism) "removes all reality and immediateness of perception, and places us in a dream-world of phantoms and spectres, the inexplicable swarm and equivocal generation of motions in our own brain Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology
IMHO, it immediately summons the spectre of some ranting teenage Vicky Pollard, holding court to a group of like-minded chavette retards behind the bike sheds. A Cunt By Any Other Name...
He probably just associates the Spectre in his unbodied state with his original host. Week 27: Midnight in the Garden of Forking Paths
The shocking discovery of discarded glue bags raises the frightening spectre of youngsters hazarding their lives in search of cheap thrills.
The familiar spectre of drought and famine has reared its ugly head again.
People glimpse the spectre of their having to cough up their full premium once again and tiptoe to the dark side. Times, Sunday Times
The destruction raised the spectre of a return to the civil war which ravaged the north African country in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.
Yes, superheroines often are clad in skimpy outfits but Silk Spectre II takes it to a whole new level … “Watchmen” reduces themes, expectations » Scene-Stealers
The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater.
There is not a sport within the Olympic movement that does not have a cloud hanging over it in terms of the spectre of drug abuse.
It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet.
This opens up a spectre of interesting possibilities, none of them attractive to him.
Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action.
Watchmen fans will no doubt enjoy the cameo appearances of newsdealer Bernard, Silk Spectre's manager, wally Weaver and the (as yet unscarred) psychiatrist, although I was annoyed by his declaration of how much he'd love to be able to psychoanalyze a superhero. I’m counting your heads as I’m making the beds: Chris reviews Tales of the Black Freighter | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The spectre of a "co-presidency" will be the new rallying cry for the trog base and shined up and hung around her neck. Hillary Tells Bill O'Reilly That Wright's Statements Were "Offensive And Outrageous"
Now the striker is determined to help remove the spectre of relegation hanging over his club. The Sun
But despite his absence his spectre dominates the campaign trail.
The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
Chapter five, which deals with the spectre of bioterrorism and biowarfare, prognosticates with frightening plausibility on the worst, largely unregulated modern evil.
Materialism (as evinced in Lockean associationism) "removes all reality and immediateness of perception, and places us in a dream-world of phantoms and spectres, the inexplicable swarm and equivocal generation of motions in our own brain Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology
Watchmen fans will no doubt enjoy the cameo appearances of newsdealer Bernard, Silk Spectre's manager, wally Weaver and the (as yet unscarred) psychiatrist, although I was annoyed by his declaration of how much he'd love to be able to psychoanalyze a superhero. I’m counting your heads as I’m making the beds: Chris reviews Tales of the Black Freighter | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

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