doppelganger

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a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart

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glasgowstylemileshoppingfestival.com HOW TO ENTER Correctly answer this question for your chance to win: Which American actor invited his doppleganger to join him at his film premier last week?
Whereas Walpole uses gothic doubling to offer momentary hope--Theodore, Alfonso's apparent doppleganger, recaptures the family's rightful claim to Otranto--Hawthorne employs it to foretell doom and to show the ways in which an evil history repeats itself.
Gyllenhaal confronts his doppleganger in this lesser-known collaboration with Denis Villeneuve, who also worked with the actor on "Prisoners."
"That's, my friend Marshalee and her doppleganger, Claralee.
"Doppleganger" - From Taiwan's Ting-hang Hsieh: A mortician steals gold teeth from his dead "customers," but finds some are best left untouched.
Let us recall the heartfelt lines that Guido, Fellini's protagonist and doppleganger, utters at the end of 81/2, the conceptual premise of the famed circus sequence that brings it to a close:
Particularly if she squares off against Perdue--the GOP runoff is on July 22--Nunn's message is going to sound like a virtual doppleganger of her opponent's in the fall: Perdue, whom Kilgore dubs "the Mitt Romney of Georgia," has assailed his Republican opponents for failing to work across the aisle, selling himself as more of a problem-solver than an ideologue.
His batting style bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Jonathan Trott - and, as Trott watched from the sidelines yesterday, he no doubt warmly approved of his doppleganger's work.
Even though he had himself invented the alternative and provisional name it was as if Joseph Anton had somehow become the Doppleganger of Salman Rushdie.
The source of anomie at the heart of suburban existence has variously been attributed to the rise of the corporation, rampant consumerism, the enforced isolation of the detached, single-family home, the anxiety of affluence and its doppleganger, financial pressure.
The book is published in twin doppleganger editions, the alternative text and the remix.
Rudy's best quality is he has a double, a quieter doppleganger, his sensitive insecure side made flesh.
Perhaps the judge in San Francisco felt her hands were tied by statute, and thought the best course was to quash a citizens' initiative on the grounds that state authorities are completely up to the task of regulating this dark corner of American medical culture, inherited from our Puritanical pre-germ-theory, British ancestors, and its home-grown doppleganger.
As for Kate Middleton, Mrs Ford thinks she will make a suitable granddaughterin-law for her doppleganger. "I think at the moment she's doing everything right," she said.