"If the shark hangs down at a great depth, in the darkness, then its prey swims above it silhouetted and the shark reduces its own likelihood of detection," Skomal said.
One day it appeared in the lane, not singing but perching in the hedge with the light behind it, silhouetted.
Then suddenly I saw it in silhouette and realized what it was... it was a heap... a simple heap!
You watch quietly as actors cut away at the cardboard backdrop, create shapes akin to the familiar silhouette of early 20th century Jews (the hat, the black clothes) and then before you know it, the silhouettes along the wall are "dancing" and moving as arms punch out through the cardboard and sway back and forth.
It was destroyed by fire in 1835 leaving only the façade, so the industrious Macanese decided to prop it up – and there it remains, silhouetted against the sky.
The two choughs are distinguishable from each other on bill colour, and in flight the long broad wings and short tail of red-billed give it a silhouette quite different from its slightly smaller yellow-billed relative.
It has an extended roofline which gives it a silhouette that is vaguely similar to that of the closed versions of BMW's Z3 and Z4, a feature that is presumably intended to improve headroom for rear seat passengers.
A vertical bulkhead at one end -- which gives it its signature silhouette -- houses a television monitor and an iPod.
It's a show that is charming and funny by turns, and deceptively sophisticated in the way it uses silhouette and shadows for theatrical effect.
Italia Vigniero, 27, a Dominican patient of Dr. Yager's, received breast implants in 2008 and is considering a buttocks lift to attain, as she called it, "the silhouette of a woman".
