Specter
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Whenever we are encouraged to oppose a dictator, the
specter
of Adolf Hitler is invoked, and the ghosts of 1938 are resurrected to counter skepticism about hasty “preemptive” war.
More example sentences with word specter
The
specter
of mass starvation loomed.
There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that
specter
of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase of the Crusades and arrives on the rocky shore of Sweden, only to find the
specter
of death waiting for him, Mr. Teszler sat in the dark with his fellow students.
So from 2007 to 2015, Risen lived under the
specter
of going to federal prison.
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