Husbands die, daughters disappear, and women are left alone with specters and questions for the specters.
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Confirmed: We are Frigid echoes, stony elegiac gaze of future specters.
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The specters of guilt and societal shame shadow each of them.
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They were obstacles to be surmounted, the specters that haunt Maeve's nightmares.
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Specters that crawl out of your television and have really long hair.
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Robert Mueller, Nancy Pelosi and Michael Cohen, the specters of his insomnia.
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Those specters aren't just eye candy, either; this is a scary movie.
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As the specters swoop in, the ghostbusters split up to take them on.
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They wasted energy and resources chasing specters, ghosts and conspiracies where none existed.
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As specters of war collected over Europe, behind closed doors, Eddy met with
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Ghosts, specters, and the occult have mesmerized photographers since the beginning of photographic history.
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Harry Specters, a chocolate shop in Cambridge, England, employs autistic adults to cook truffles.
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Passengers on the subway look like defeated specters of city life, slouched and hopeless.
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It's astonishing, hopeful, as though these specters are living beings waiting to be revived.
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A startlingly original debut feature about the specters that haunt Dakar, and everywhere else.
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Specters of men disfigured by the hammer attack erupt out of a blackened space.
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Perhaps clowns are like specters of anxiety and discomfort, bogeymen that personify our deepest fears.
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Coverage of specters began to ebb when Adolph S. Ochs acquired The Times in 1896.
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He analyzes the historical rise of specters to explain how they have evolved and why.
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In Chris Hughes' mind, there's a chilling symmetry between the specters now confronting America and Facebook.
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Were the sympathizers streaming into town — guns on their hips — specters of intimidation or of comfort?
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I guess because there are a lot of specters that kind of hover over the exhibition.
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Images of lost and murdered children haunt the narrative, specters of snuffed lives and broken hopes.
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But not every case "would raise the grim specters" put forward by the government, he wrote.
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These are at once specters of past defeats and echoes of victories, almost, but not quite, attained.
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Not just because she's a super-brainy lady helping to rid the city of nefarious specters, either.
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We lived in fear of a few looming specters: the Clintons, social services, martial law, gun control.
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This time it's the cultish Kett, not the robotic reapers, that serve as the game's specters of death.
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Better he be the first to resurrect these deadly specters, the virologist maintains, than someone with nefarious intentions.
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Young but far from foolish, a cast of girls stand their ground while animal specters invade their immediate surroundings.
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This begs the question, will more unwanted specters of Grey Sloan past start descending upon the hospital as well?
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Your Alymovs [Sergei Alymov was a showcase hack poet] are specters bobbing in the wake of a foreign tourist.
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A third set of problems with "Die Zauberflöte" seems more and more glaring: the specters of racism and misogyny.
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Naomi Campbell looked perfect except for her cheap white lace tights, like twin specters of the 1990s inhabiting one body.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — Ghosts, girls and growing up: These were the specters hanging over a weekend of opera here.
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It is also a horror movie, full of specters and silences and a terror that is pervasive, intimate and elusive.
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In a 2012 photograph by Taggart, the place is eerily seen by night, its spectator benches lined up like waiting specters.
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They lead him to the gas station where it all started — where specters of men in beanies flicker in the darkness.
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In her first feature, Mati Diop presents a reality in which we are literally drowning in the specters of the past.
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It's about us, people who live in a country that has rarely been willing to face the specters that lurk among us.
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Specters adopting the names of hip-hop artists like Nicki Minaj and Ñengo Flow, a Puerto Rican singer, pelted him with insults.
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OBAKE FAMILY DAY: SPECTERS OF THE SACRED FOREST (Sunday) Imagine a lost umbrella that becomes vengeful and goes after its careless owner.
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Now he's having dreams about a contested convention where delegates flee from the specters of Trump and Ted Cruz into his arms.
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The specters of other players can get in your head; they're got better scopes, better guns, and better skills with those weapons.
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Ultimately, its message seems to be: Just because you're bonkers doesn't mean the specters of your past aren't out to get you.
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What makes "Everybody Knows" so intensely watchable is the urge to see what shape those specters will take when they finally appear.
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Gabriel and Hulskamp's will be staging improvisational performances at the festival, moving through spaces like living sculptures; specters with offbeat sartorial sensibilities.
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In blasting Obama as "sick" and sinking to "a new low," Trump invoked the specters of former President Richard Nixon and Wisconsin Sen.
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White supremacists scared up specters of rape and used the promise of safeguarding the purity of white womanhood to enact Jim Crow laws.
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Teams first solve each ghost's puzzle; after trapping eight specters this way, players advance to finding the one that actually haunts the museum.
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Understandably, Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu did not choose to mention the specters of impeachment and criminal indictment during the East Room ceremony.
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Preternaturally self-assured, Cockburn is nothing like the hollow-eyed specters that we tend to associate with grieving parents in the popular imagination.
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When specters materialize, the movie can look a little cheesy, like a Halloween haunted house, but Ms. Dormer handles her flirtations with madness adeptly.
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The sounds are a mixture of the women's voices that seem to serve as specters of the past, attempting to speak to the unspeakable.
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Mysterious forces act on the heroines of Duncan's books, as their developing adolescent personalities become the ideal vessels for ghosts, specters, and otherworldly phenomena.
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The ghost of Beckett still hovers, but so do, just as visibly, the specters of T. S. Eliot, Edward Albee and Dostoyevsky's Underground Man.
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Whether they would have been formally for or against the revolution, Berdyaev believed, the specters of these three great writers fed its savage energy.
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So if, say, your roommate binged all of Vanderpump Rules on your profile, you won't be haunted by the specters of reality shows past anymore.
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Williams' version restores the primacy of those specters of things unseen to the tale, which makes the miracle of Scrooge's redemption all the more affecting.
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The specters here were not poverty, famine, collapse of civil society, total war, but the ghosts of classical Russian writers: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Nikolai Gogol.
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And out-of-focus specters who sneak up behind people or disappear and reappear with light-switch flicks are not the stuff of primal terror.
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These idle, gorgeous specters on the screen get what they deserve, which is exactly what we would want if we found ourselves in their place.
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There is a general restraint when writing about her family, vague specters swept away by the much more formative powers of the ocean and wind.
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A balmy spring breeze ruffled Dag's thick brown hair, the gust an unexpected blessing in this country ravaged by the twin specters of drought and violence.
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While J-Horror and Anime have made Japan famous as a source of bizarre ghosts, the entire continent is awash in both traditional and modern specters.
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With the specters of Pennsylvania and Arizona and Alabama haunting their dreams, Republicans have a new special election to worry about: Ohio's 12th Congressional District. Rep.
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In fact, specters of slavery infiltrate our scarred nation, but especially so in the contemporary landscape of a city like Richmond, still dotted with colonial architecture.
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Because her husband, Nuri (Numan Akar), was a Turkish immigrant and a former drug dealer, the police raise the specters of Islamist terrorism and gang activity.
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For this iteration, the walls painted a contrasting blue as they were in 1998, the artists have surrounded "Bibliomancy" with other uncanny specters of the past.
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But when the filters are reverted, when the makeup is off, are we all shadowy-eyed, tired-looking specters with thin, dry lips and dull, sallow complexions?
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We could all stand to gain from Welles's unsparing eye that he cast time and again at the specters of totalitarianism, venal money worship, and moral turpitude.
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"I'd rather have 30 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters [in the Senate]," he said (referring to the moderate Republican senator who in 2009 flipped to become a Democrat).
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Branded "Europe's drug death capital," the city has become the subject of doom-laden TV and newspaper stories about an underclass stalked by the specters of addiction and overdose.
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Dualism is terrifying in part because the separation of mind and body implies the possibility of radical skepticism, brains in vats and other "Matrix"-like specters of disembodied life.
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As quaint as the specters it works to expunge, "Another Evil" is an ultra-low-budget ghost story with an off-kilter sensibility that initially intrigues but ultimately fizzles.
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"In fact, not every criminal proceeding to which a President may be subjected would raise the grim specters the DOJ memos portray as incapacitation of the president," he argued.
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Before long, four of the five protagonists are haunted by specters from their past, as something in the death-and-revival process converts their guilty consciences into dangerous physical manifestations.
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But I can also imagine a scenario in which a populist, authoritarian leader, constantly invoking the twin specters of terrorism and unchecked illegal immigration, rallies popular support around surveillance technology.
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The claustrophobic path guides you through locations from the film, using mist curtain projections and disguised video screens to create the ethereal specters, while employees in makeup perform jump scares.
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N.Y.C. Nature The translucent white stems of Indian pipe seem completely out of place in New York City's July woodlands — icy specters in the stuffy heat of the deep forest.
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The harsh crackdown from Madrid has inevitably raised dark specters in a Europe where they are stirring on many fronts: Franco suppressed the Catalan language and culture throughout his rule.
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In 1929, however, the cigarette brand Lucky Strike launched an ad campaign that taunted women with double chins and unseemly one-piece swimsuits that hung like specters over their futures.
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The specters of these dead Guardians will ask for vengeance, cry out for salvation, or else just watch; shadows of your own character hanging dead in the sky, eyes down.
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" The game's Facebook page captioned the video "Specters, poltergeists, full-roaming vapors, and more from your favorite Ghostbusters movies, TV shows, comics and video games are about to invade our world.
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Whether the specters of future skyscrapers, or the smoldering skeletons of societies collapsed, the manipulated photographs of Jacob Felländer are at once filled with signifiers and unfamiliar in what they intimate.
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For whatever reason, this woman decided the first (and only!) rule of haunted house club didn't apply to her and decided to offer the tortured specters under her porch some snacks.
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Less well known is an article Berdyaev composed in Petrograd in that dark revolutionary year, 1918, titled "Specters of the Russian Revolution" (sometimes also translated as "Spirits of the Russian Revolution").
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The specters with which Mr. Oliver communes are the shadows of his own self, displaced versions of the boy and the man he was, is, never was and never will be.
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No matter where you make a life with someone, you live within those walls, not just with that person, but also with facets and specters of the people encountered before you.
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Better Things is also slightly more serialized this season, as the show follows Max's adventures in Chicago and the specters of both Sam's father and estranged ex-husband keep popping up.
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The unbearable whiteness of Sabrina's intersectional witchcraft CAOS, a show declaring itself intersectional from the mountaintops, forgoes this complex tapestry of marginalization to resurrect the same old specters of white women victims.
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I'm steeped in news of how the entertainment industry works, and I'm increasingly tired of pointless action blockbusters, and I lament the loss of the human amid computerized specters and formulaic screenplays.
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It's a show about how hard it is to live under the twin specters of addiction and poverty, even if the latter has been slightly deemphasized over the course of the show.
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Or, at the very least, every one of us knows the intimate horrors of family, whether in the form of their tormenting absence or the full-bodied specters that still stalk us today.
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And now, a full display of this project is on view as part of his career retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery, which looks not only to the specters haunting Iraq, but the whole world.
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Under Trump, Americans with disabilities already confront the twin specters of an education secretary disinterested in anti-discrimination law and a health care proposal that financially penalizes people for being poor and sick.
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That's Negro-Sarah (played with a razor-edged smile by Crystal Dickinson), who is forever haunted by the specters of her dark-skinned father and paler mother, an unloving couple of clashing sensibilities.
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Trophies by Carl Pope, Jr. and an oversize LAPD uniform by Chris Burden — both made in the aftermath of King's beating — loom as specters of violence among the nine cops in Leonardo's drawing.
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Playing as a contractor named Amy who is recovering the artificial intelligence (AI) from a space station in 2088, you encounter the specters of its vanished crew through fuzzy recordings of their colorful silhouettes.
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Trump's own "law and order" speechifying often seems to have been ripped directly out of these earlier eras, summoning timeworn racial stereotypes and specters of an acute urban crisis that no longer quite exists.
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Like the graves of SS soldiers in the background of a ceremonial tribute to heroism and sacrifice in WWII, specters of the past and repercussions from it continue to thread themselves into the present.
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In "Lovers," a multimedia installation, life-size images of Mr. Furuhashi and other members of his Kyoto-based artist collective are projected onto the walls of a darkened room, moving like specters around the perimeter.
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It surfaces repeatedly in public life when politicians appeal to the magical thinking of small-government fiscal conservatism, or when they invoke the racialized specters of welfare queens and juvenile delinquents and spongers of all types.
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Silvera's world-building is elaborate — a gritty New York City in which power-wielding celestials battle abusive specters and share subway space with the rest of us — but the novel shows that sexual identity is unremarkable.
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Darker themes that stalked his older work—the specters of lost lovers, queer desire, and cosmic disappointment—are still present here, but the careful orchestration of songs like "cherubim" makes these pieces feel impossibly self-assured.
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But its understanding of all of those things is facile — literally most of it can be boiled down to, "This is ridiculous" — and the specters it exhumes lurch onto screen like the ghosts of Christmas past.
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It's certainly a game-changer and doesn't explain half the specters haunting the Crains (and us!) all season, but it merits a second viewing to solidify the journey we just went on and what it all means.
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And below each large relief, Rakowitz includes a small label about where it was located and when it was destroyed, along with a quote about its fate — the specters of these objects lingering long after they're gone.
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Although monuments to the Confederacy are ubiquitous in the South, they are so rare in the North that, for some Americans, they remain remote, unnoticed specters of a past that is foreign in both time and space.
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These changes could be passed down through generations, which has raised the stakes of CRISPR experiments — and the twin specters of "designer babies" and genetic performance enhancers — particularly when it comes to editing genes in human embryos.
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In The Ghost: A Cultural History, recently released by Tate Publishing, author Susan Owens begins not with the specters of Halloween or some drafty Victorian haunted house, but with this scene where Scrooge is visited by his former partner.
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"The specters of hatred and fear now loom large in world affairs, and we have few governments standing up for human rights in these disturbing times," said Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty, in a statement accompanying the report.
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RELATED | Merkel: We must face up to the specters of our past Walls exist "in people's minds" and "between family members, as well as between groups within the society, between people of different skin colors, nations and religions," she said.
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There, Miguel encounters Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), who, like the other ghosts, wants to cross over to look in on the living, the twist being that these specters cease to exist when nobody is left who remembers and honors their memory.
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In Jonathan Kaldor and Sebastian Michael's "Icon" — a palace musical set mostly in the 1920s that vibrates with the specters of two princesses, Diana and Grace — it's the dapper private secretary Gualtieri (Tony Sheldon) who's loyal beyond the call of duty.
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Rather than conjure up the specters of sovereign nation-states and autonomous individuals, we need to learn to live in a world that is interconnected not only ethereally or ideally, through communication technologies, but also materially, via direct embodied contact.
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Specters and screwballs, bozos and boogeymen, populate the canvases of this Russian-born American artist, whose wily new exhibition, "On Them" — his first in New York in five years — is the best I've seen by a young painter this year.
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Ari Aster's directorial debut is as finely made as it is frightening, the camera coaxing ghostly specters out of dark corners, lingering on a roadside that later plays a part in a ghastly development, and capturing the creepiest dioramas of all time.
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Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won Tuesday's special election for a Senate seat in Mississippi, a result at once expected and noteworthy in a contest that has raised the specters of the ugliest parts of the state's history around race and civil rights.
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Unlike the rest of the French museum, which is brightly lit and lively with schoolchildren racing around the displays, that gallery is darkly illuminated, with taxidermy specimens including the extinct Tasmanian tiger and Schomburgk's deer of Thailand positioned like specters in glass cabinets.
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Interior shots of the Enlisted Men's Club, a run-down hangout of soldiers demolished in 22007, as well as the dark silhouette of a US naval ship in "Yokosuka Again #22010" (21945–21945) appear as specters of the city's wartime past and militarized present.
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Rather than suffer the stereotypical nighttime immobilization, Levitas sees creatures moving in the corners of his room, puppies slipping under the door, clouds of smoke hovering above his bed, or other specters from the day that have sneakily maneuvered into his dream-like states.
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If the Leavers have profited on anti-political feeling, the only possible solution is to find some way of remaking politics so that the specters of fear and insecurity, and disdain for a distant political class, no longer animate so much of the electorate.
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Specters appear throughout the film, as passionate scenes of Ada and Souleiman together give way to the loss she experiences after he disappears into the night, setting forth in a rickety pirogue bound for Spain like so many young men who have gone (and died) before him.
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A few hundred feet away, the London-based singer-songwriter Nao — in the middle of putting on one hell of a show, any and all specters of potential nuclear calamity aside — was marveling at the singing crowd: "How do you know all the words?" she asked, laughing.
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They have an eerie appeal: If your kindergartner brought one home, you would be creeped out, but here, they look as if they summon the kind of specters who open your kitchen cabinets, like in "The Sixth Sense," except they reorganize your glassware and put a flower in each cup.
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Two-dimensional illustrated characters pop up like specters against the hyperreal settings, whether the murky streets of Berkeley, where palm trees loom over the Art Deco architecture, or a blue 1950s world in which patriotism is on high, with bunting and messages like "I work hard for my homeland" draped across the buildings.
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"I'm always forgetting how sexy the past must have been," Will remarks after reading the diaries that Nantwich turns over to him, which reveal a very different kind of gay existence from his own, one haunted by the specters of legal punishment and reputational annihilation, and yet not without its adventures and satisfactions.
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A Theater for a New Audience production, directed by Evan Yionoulis at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, Ms. Kennedy's phantasmagoric drama takes a treacherous sentimental journey into the Georgia and New York City in the 1940s, when the specters of Nazism and Jim Crow cast Jacobean shadows on an interracial romance.
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So we have to be resistant to that, because otherwise we will start to normalize and internalize his narrative, and will start to see even more than we do today immigrants as specters against whom we have to fight and we will think that being transgender means the end of the world.
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The biennial's artistic director, Pushpamala N. — a prominent Indian performance artist who works with photography and video, and a pioneer of Indian conceptual photography — says that she looks at "photography as this mirror portal which has created a netherworld of specters" that can be either welcoming or hostile and attack the viewer.
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The whole series — intended to remind us of the specters of the past — began after Rakowitz discovered that the cans of Lebanese date syrup he was buying in the US were actually produced in Iraq, but were branded with Lebanese packaging and exported out of Lebanon, allowing Iraqi companies to bypass United Nations sanctions.
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I didn't take FMLA or ADA leave, and in July of 2012, I saw strange specters in my field of vision, and under the belief that I was having a stroke, I spent a night in the hospital for symptoms that turned out to be a either a migraine or nothing—I never got an official diagnosis.
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There are other contemporary narratives that Watership Down can be neatly slotted into if you so wish: the impetus for Fiver's doom-y premonition and the subsequent exodus that is the story of the book are the developers that arrive to build on the land the warren is dug into, raising the specters of gentrification and displacement.
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The U.S.-Canada border is notoriously difficult for touring bands to transverse, a bureaucratic nightmare often compounded by murky laws, the strict rules refusing admission to those with DUIs into the country, and uninformed border agents, as well as a the ever-present specters of racism and xenophobia—which appear to have gotten worse post-Trump, according to Matthewson's observations.
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A young boy named Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) makes the trip in reverse, which is not to say that he dies, but rather that his living self, through one of several metaphysical loopholes that the movie explains as it goes along, is transported into a fantastical world of specters and skeletons, who hold fabulous parties and raucous outdoor concerts.
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The more benevolent specters in residence for this go-round, her fourth memoir, are the younger selves of Harrison's grandmother, a London-born, Shanghai-raised, French-speaking germaphobic Jewish heiress, and of her grandfather, a kindly adventurer who had been, variously, a fur trapper, a railroad surveyor and a sapper during World War I after growing up in poverty in London.
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As a writer, Phillips has confronted the looming specters of sexism and racism in hardcore for this very website, and, as an entrepreneur, she's found considerable candy-scented success with her Foxie Bombs cosmetics line, a collection of handmade, cruelty-free, vegan products that look good enough to devour and smell like heaven (full disclosure, I'm addicted to her Sweet Rose red clay mask).
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The film is a Joan of Arc pastiche, a musical, an exploitation picture, and a pornographic movie—but what it really is is an excuse for a breathtaking series of montages where a singing, dancing Black Death melts faces into skulls, kaleidoscopic specters of pop-art Americana signify the consummation of Jeanne's pact with the Evil One, and an assortment of infernal penises perform vicissitudes previously undreamt by any human penis, which is perhaps the greatest contribution an animation studio has made to creative physiology since Cab Calloway serenaded Betty Boop in Minnie the Moocher.
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