As for the Angel, van Eyck has transformed this divine messenger into a magnificent apparition.
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When he kisses Judy during the circling apparition of the tower in her bedroom, the rhythm twists into ambivalence.
Her run-in with the apparition took place when she was a young girl in bed with the chicken pox.
When the apparition disappeared, Francis found on his body wounds resembling those which Jesus received when he was crucified.
When Clara made her entrance, it was like the apparition of a goddess.
's mind's eye, it would be the fearful apparition of the Netherlands' Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Competition.
And in any case and this was even stranger no passerby seemed to notice this female apparition sitting up on the trunk of my car.
In the three years preceding 2003, 50 cent was an apparition: He had a presence, yet no one could see his face.
It was like seeing a startlingly vivid apparition of an evanescent and vanished city that I still mourn the loss of, in a way.
During the siege of Saragossa, which began in 1808, a miraculous apparition of a palm tree with a crown raised the morale of the entire population.
Mormonism objects to making a big deal of the morbid agony of Jesus on the Cross at the expense of the more cheerful apparition of Man-made-into-God.
This mighty apparition, whose legs curve up the drill like the arches in a Gothic cathedral, was one of the first robots to emerge in Western art.
In the lower-right corner, and executed with a far more circumspect touch, a likely portrait of the Marquis de Sade underscores the disturbing import of the apparition above.
But unlike Everest, which is cocooned by other peaks on the Tibetan plateau, McKinley stands unchallenged, a solid wall of rock and ice rising like an apparition above the wild taiga.
He came and went at odd hours in a glistening black Mercedes S-600 sedan, his shock of silver hair and dark glasses a fleeting apparition behind its tinted windows.
When the test drives were finished, Holt and Mark Driggers drove the armored Humvees back to the factory an apparition of the Iraq War in the streets of Mount Airy.
Though closer to hostels than hotels, the wood-fired stoves, home-style food, and sociable communal space will seem like a heavenly apparition after seven hours of pushing and poling through powder.
Winthrop (population 394), made over with a Wild West theme in the 1970s, is a bizarre apparition, especially in the winter when lines of skinny Nordic skis instead of horses stand sentinel outside the storefronts.
He lives with his divorced mother and her scruffy boyfriend, loves classic foreign films, uses elevated language to confide his yearnings to a journal, feigns sophistication with charming haplessness (a casual reference to that craggy icon of American poetry, Bobby Frost) and lusts after a Lolita-like apparition named Sheeni Saunders, who is played delightfully by Portia Doubleday.
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