His phantom presence manifested itself outside the castle.

And despite the neighborhood's Irish and Italian roots, the Catholic Church is a mostly phantom presence for many, its influence diminished by declining resources, membership and relevance to the young.

The girl's older sister, who earlier had been only a phantom presence in her life, appeared and was granted custody of her.

Every figment of fog concealed his phantom presence.

Alone onstage, Ms. Irving addresses a phantom presence, the absent Lota.

The gaps left by their removal felt like missing limbs, still having a kind of phantom presence.

Do you think that the phantom presence in Linda's life really is Linden?

"It's very evident at this meeting that Iraq is a phantom presence that they can't get their arms around."

She held it over the table, between herself and Haramis's phantom presence, and spoke in a voice unyielding as stone.

Though most say it was so radically adjusted to suit Horowitz's needs that it does not meet theirs, it still carries symbolic weight and remains something of a phantom presence in the piano department.