ectoplasmic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.
From Los Angeles Times
Color spills into the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, radiating from a 3-D animation of sloshing, puffy liquid fizzing in ectoplasmic earth-tones and rancid pastels.
From New York Times
As his last week on Earth slips away, Maali must come to grips with the kind of friend and lover he was, even as he flies around Colombo, contending with a host of ghouls and demons who hang off every car and building like ectoplasmic kudzu.
From Washington Post
Ghosts are the ultimate voyeurs — writers in their ectoplasmic state.
From Los Angeles Times
The technique used gives each piece an “almost ectoplasmic” effect, “like it’s been extruded out of a bowl of unpasteurized milk,” said Mitchell Owens, the acting features editor of The World of Interiors, who described Astier’s creations as a “sort of dark counterculture ‘porcelain.’”
From New York Times
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