What is "hauntingly"

Usage examples of "hauntingly".

Images of Vittoria and the Hassassin started to swirl hauntingly as Langdon clambered his way around the fountain, the frustration mounting as he frantically completed yet another fruitless circle.

And then, through the showering debris and the fury of starquake, Buchanan glimpsed the hauntingly beautiful tunnel.

I remember the organ played a hymnlike melody that was hauntingly familiar.

Following my gaze, Viv stares at the Grouch, whose empty black and white eyes stare hauntingly back.

The soft breathy sound of it seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere, all at once, a resonant wave of slow, stately notes, one falling after the other, rolling into a melody that was at once hauntingly strange and heartachingly familiar.

In the planetarium foyer was a mockup of the spacecraft which could have achieved the mission, perhaps in the early 1990s, assembled from hauntingly familiar components: Energia heavy-lift boosters, a Mir-based habitat module, a Mars lander built around Proton booster rocket stages.

King's recent contributions to The New Yorker, an intriguing yet flawed short story in the summer fiction issue, and a hauntingly elegiacal essay in its winter counterpart, seem to wrap it all up with a nice big shiny red bow.

Austrian Schrammel music, hauntingly and nostalgically evocative of a kindlier and happier age, flooded through the open doorway.

The face that peered hauntingly out of the mirror was that of the Knucker Ehomba and his companions had found besotted and soiled in a squalid close, lying barely conscious in his own filth.

I prefer that mythical place described so hauntingly by the great Clarke.

Then there was a soft fluting whistle, like a blast on Pan's pipe, sweet and hauntingly melodious in the dawn, and immediately there was movement again, an encroaching movement, like a strangler's hand upon the throat.

There was a little plastic mock-up of structures on the Moon's surface: a proud lunar lander, hauntingly like the Apollo Lunar Module of four decades earlier, a compact surface shelter half-buried in the regolith, the Chinese flag surrounded by four or five toy astronauts.

There was a little plastic mock-up of structures on the ' Moon's surface: a proud lunar lander, hauntingly like the Apollo Lunar Module of four decades earlier, a compact surface shelter half-buried in the regolith, the Chinese flag surrounded by four or five toy astronauts.