What is "spectral"

Usage examples of "spectral".

He feels the fear begin to accrete, seamlessly, senselessly, with absolute conviction, around this carnival ghost, the Cadillac, this oil-burning relic in its spectral robe of smudged mosaic silver.

CHAPTER I DYING WORDS A SPECTRAL gloom seemed to pervade the room where Josiah Bartram lay.

Abbey of Floating White was a spectral stone edifice, with nine slender minarets topped by silver-leaf domes, rising from the bedrock of the Djenn Marre like the very hand of the Great Goddess Miina.

The spectral rays melled to a brilliant auroral band which, as it spun faster, hazed blue.

Four loads of various analyses, spectral, elemental, et-ceteral, mineral samples, and then there is that soup or metaplasm or whatever that rotten stuff from Beta Arcturi was called.

There was the spectral image of a man in black standing just within the penumbra of the bathroom light.

The blade came alive, radiating a spectral yellow light that gave his face a phosphene hue.

A time display flashed in the bottom right corner of the photon amp image, spectral yellow digits: 21:17:08.

BREED in purple spectral lettering and dozens of UK record-company executives in Mad Max gear hang out with tattooed models from Holland and managing directors from Polygram share bananas and sip psybertronic drinks with magazine editors and half of a progressive British hip-hop act wearing schoolgirl uniforms is dancing with modeling agency bookers along with ghosts, extras, insiders, various people from the world at large.

There was little out there now but smoldering ash, but the sensu was still getting a reading high into the nines and the teleidoscope was turning it, turning it, combining colors and sending them back in some new spectral spectrum.

The spectral phenomenon now begins at one side with light blue and passes into indigo and violet, with uncoloured darkness in the centre.

His exemplary fatigue made him appear even younger than he was, stylish boy of the boulevards, intelligent and frail, ever ready to renounce even his own spectral pleasures, a voluptuary indulging himself in the idea of restraint.

And Sir Alured rejoiced in the idea that when his ghost should look at the survey map, that hiatus of Barnton Spinnies would not trouble his spectral eyes.

Every time Nom Anor glanced back toward the wall of rubble that so easily could have become his tomb, a spectral hand reached into his chest to twist his heart apart.

The bellflower on the rock or the black stone itself, or whatever it might be, exuded a penetrating, strange, disturbing scent, the uncanny symbol of the god shone with a spectral radiance in the dark hall, and on the roof the strange bird sat and from time to time beat its enormous wings so that there was a rustling in the trees like a coming storm.