haunting in English

adjective
1
poignant and evocative; difficult to ignore or forget.
the melodies were elaborate and of haunting beauty
verb
1
(of a ghost) manifest itself at (a place) regularly.
a gray lady who haunts the chapel
synonyms:appear inmaterialize invisit

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1. ..a forlorn, haunting plaint.

2. The poem has a haunting poignancy.

3. Just haunting an old house, ma'am.

4. The song is haunting and very beautiful.

5. 3 The carol has a primitive strength and haunting simplicity.

6. A spectre of Japanese militarism is haunting Asia.

7. The living impaired are known for haunting us.

8. Wistfully, I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well.

9. That's when she started haunting all my mirrors.

10. And there is the haunting plea of its name.

11. "Brainwashed" leaves us Harrison's enduring and haunting farewell

12. 2 The carol has a primitive strength and haunting simplicity.

13. Composer John Williams won an Oscar for his haunting score.

14. The themes are more serious, the music at times haunting."

15. Bluebeard is one of the ghosts haunting the Haunted Mansion

16. A spectre is haunting startups—the spectre of the Brogrammer

17. A haunting trumpetlike call announces their presence, even though they may be miles away.

18. Hiding beneath this hilly area are the haunting Waitomo Glowworm Caves.

19. Separatism and racial conflict has been haunting the post - cold war community.

20. But its haunting chords and rhythms do not conquer tone-deaf bureaucracies .

21. The service Concluded with the haunting sound of a waiata sung by

22. 15 Almost without realizing it, he began to play a soulful, haunting melody.

23. This kind of Costumery can be really aspirational in a quietly haunting way

24. One of the most mysterious figures haunting the Christian imagination is the Antichrist

25. The book is a haunting, 96-page anthology of poems and short essays.

26. It suddenly seemed desperately important to meet the woman behind that haunting voice.

27. I saw some persons haunting around your house, what's the matter with you?

28. Synonyms for Catchy include captivating, memorable, appealing, popular, unforgettable, snappy, haunting, melodic, melodious and singable

29. The remembered odor of perfume and powder of woman came back, haunting her, filling her.

30. It becomes a haunting symbol of Norrington's once-brilliant career before falling to piracy.

31. The music of Nias, performed mostly by women, is noted worldwide for its haunting beauty.

32. There's one problem, though: The local legends of a murderous Axeman haunting the creek are true

33. It is a haunting, dream-like painting, in which we are given a kind of omnipotence.

34. They allowed a council-appointed paranormal expert into their home to investigate a nine-month haunting.

35. " Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death. "

36. (4) The next track, ‘Space Age Ballad,’ is a haunting acoustic number that recalls contemporaries Ghost and their psychedelic Balladry .

37. The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New York City

38. The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New York City

39. "I Do", "Bliss" "Goodbyes" and "Forever" will add a tender yet powerful sound to my haunting images.

40. Behind the facade of hope and optimism, there remained the haunting fear of poverty, inequality and insecurity.

41. These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form.

42. Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.

43. But who knows better than the Arabs the haunting power of that which is veiled, of that which the hijab hides?

44. Often referred to as a “bowed guitar”, the Arpeggione was capable of producing pure, lovely and haunting sounds

45. This little tale is haunting enough, but it's the pictures that turn the book into an art treasure.

46. He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth: long, cruel and haunting.

47. With a haunting original score by Randy Risling and evocative quotes, Airsick plays out like an unsettling dream.

48. It seemed a right time, a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me.

49. In terms of poetry, the mystical and haunting verse of Rainer Maria Rilke is Samatar's principal source of inspiration.

50. The declamatory, repetitive, rhythmic prose of Ossian throbs with urgent sonorities and captivates the ear with its haunting incantations.