Example Sentences

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Invoking ghosts and ghostliness, this spacious yet intricate work managed to fill NYU Skirball’s expansive stage, building to a climax in which the three dancers, uncannily, appeared enmeshed as one.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

The resulting image haunts, its ghostliness keyed to the ambivalent predicament of young black lives even under a banner of patriotism.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2019

She didn’t mean something supernatural, exactly—more like a literary ghostliness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

The location shooting in Serbia has an evocative ghostliness, but it's a one-note coloring that ignores any sense of a culture wracked by war but forging ahead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2018

Her imagination was an instrument of wonder, and she fashioned, of the stuff of her ghostliness, an ever-shifting expression of her marvelous self.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor