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- proper noun A fictional
ghost , and character of A Christmas Carol byCharles Dickens , who visitsEbenezer Scrooge in order to show him hispast , especially certain events aroundChristmases of past years that contributed for the change of heart of Scrooge fromliking todespising Christmas.
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Examples
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Hence, the Ghost of Christmas Past is a flickering flame - or in Dickens 'words "a bright, clear jet of light."
unknown title 2009
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It's up to Mr. Hopkins, looking like the Ghost of Christmas Past, to train this drunken, mangy reprobate in the etiquette of an aristocrat in order to grow from a clown to a servant of the oppressed peons, while falling in love with the old Zorro's long-lost daughter Elena (played by luscious Catherine Zeta Jones) in the process.
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It's up to Mr. Hopkins, looking like the Ghost of Christmas Past, to train this drunken, mangy reprobate in the etiquette of an aristocrat in order to grow from a clown to a servant of the oppressed peons, while falling in love with the old Zorro's long-lost daughter Elena (played by luscious Catherine Zeta Jones) in the process.
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Re-imagined post-9/11, this wacky morality tale substitutes a celebrated documentarian for Ebenezer Scrooge, the Fourth of July for Christmas, and General George Patton for the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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For a while, I was seeing it while Bill Murray was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past (the taxi-driver from hell).
Ace of Spades HQ 2010
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But let's go back to the cinematic equivalent of the Ghost of Christmas Past and look at what filmed in Long Beach in the three weeks before the holidays.
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Disgustingly annoying, with its one-dimensional characters and condescendingly trite platitudes - the Ghost of Christmas Past should remain just that - a ghost.
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Gambon as the Scrooge figure, Matt Smith's Doctor Who as the Ghost of Christmas Past, and a honeymooning Amy and Rory on a crippled space-liner heading for catastrophe.
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(Of course, in George and Dick's case, the Ghost of Christmas Past would probably need numerous nights of successively scarier and scarier visits to accomplish this feat).
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Let us suppose that George W. Bush, while still President (who is more powerful than the president?), was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past and as a result of that visitation, vowed to become a truthful and decent man, regardless of the consequences.
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