I imagined
wraithlike Alice, who looked nervous and delicate, serving the ladies tea with those thin cookies called langues-de-chat.
As the poem opens, Li Po's presence is called to mind through his epithet, "high heavenly priest of the White Lake," but his absence is also noted: He is now "a small mound in an endless plain of grass." Then he is present again, "his pendants clicking and pearls shading his eyes," and he is beautifully evoked in a
wraithlike form, "whose body is clothed in the bluegrass and the smoke of dew." After establishing how Li Po, unattached to authorship, sent his poems on leaves downstream, and how "death never entered his poems," the speaker, in the last stanza, finally emerges and paints himself into the landscape.
Maybe he did receive a puzzling impression in 1901 as he says, but it was too
wraithlike to be inserted with confidence in an official record of observations.
(1) Sophia's artistic career has been diminished or denigrated by Nathaniel Hawthorne's biographers such as Robert Cantwell, who describes her work as "quaint and
wraithlike, ...
There are a number of entertaining supporting performances, from Ken Bradshaw (who also shone in the Unbound series last autumn) as Banquo to the trio of
wraithlike "weird sisters" and both Bremmer's king and comedic porter - Riff Raff meets John le Mesurier.
This makes for some nifty sequences, as Salt descends with almost
wraithlike intensity upon her attackers, but unlike the Bourne movies, "Salt" never manages to turn its deathdefying stunts into character insights, never reveals psychology through action.
As he prepares to kill the it, meeting violence with violence, he hears the advice of his "great, great, great grandfather" who appears to him as a "
wraithlike" presence, obstructing him as he prepares to confront the "terror bull" with force (63-4).
As the story begins Lazlo and his
wraithlike mother are living alone in a small cottage, his father having disappeared some time before while walking the dog in the woods.
Maximo Park had nothing to fear as they rattled through new tracks including The Kids Are Sick Again,
Wraithlike and Let's Get Clinical.
Costing a minimum of pounds 3, all proceeds from the sale of new song
Wraithlike will go to the band's chosen charity No Surrender, a charitable trust set up by Jason Boas, a friend of the band who died from pancreatic cancer.
As he walks, he witnesses buildings lose their polished modernity to the deepening shadows and remarks that "darkness calls forth what little of the past still hovers
wraithlike about" (214).
The red-brown sunburnt creature of the first act is now a pallid, almost ghostly creature,
wraithlike. She's less animated--there's something statuesque, "adult," now.
evil--Evil itself--the more it becomes
wraithlike (68) and shadowy; the
It has come to be associated with a
wraithlike phantasm of the Islamic world, and it inevitably seems associated with a vague concept of the 'Middle East'.
Little known in the United States, Vyroubova was a Romantic dancer whose
wraithlike style, gossamer-like jump, and sad oval-shaped face evoked descriptions of Taglioni and Grisi.
