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Adjective
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The film’s ghostly images are at once flattened and alive, hovering in visual purgatory as scenes begin to feel not only like fever dreams, but out-of-body observations of the dreamers themselves.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025 -
That angle belongs to this ghostly presence that observes, and even sometimes interacts, on our behalf.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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As Atom and Claudine traverse the countryside and meet various other characters (cast mostly from non-professional actors), the frame takes on a spectral presence.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Hazel’s magical threads can be fashioned into a temporary glider or a grappling hook to help with platforming, used to conjure spectral objects that seem somewhat stuck between worlds, and wielded in battle to push enemies away and pull them towards her.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That doesn't rule out that other pollsters are generating phantom swings by updating their weights, of course.—
G. Elliott Morris,
ABC News,
13 Jan. 2025
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But that estimate sharply dropped once authorities subtracted the amount of phantom investment gains and interest that Madoff’s customers were duped into believing existed.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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