Sentence examples for a dim shadow of from inspiring English sources

Those that come only after most alternative routes have already been closed are just a dim shadow of those that come when there's still time to compare multiple paths.

As Mr. Assouline readily admits, next to Tintin's life, Hergé's was a dim shadow, of interest mostly for the way it reminds us, yet again, that there is no accounting for genius.

In the dim shadow of the canopy her luminous eyes shone more brilliantly than usual, filled as they were with tears of joy.

"Across the vast pale desert, haunted by dim shadows of conquests past, rides the lonely hero," we read of L. P. The conquests past are sexual and cinematic -- pornography being high art in Cinecity -- and L. P. is lonely because that is human fate.

Most have been relegated to the dust-bin of history, or only dim shadows of them remain.

Julian motioned to Obie's neck, where Dr. Setumahaven's laser had reduced the spider to a dim blue shadow.

The star of stage and screen gave a dim assessment of the present shadow cabinet, telling Standpoint magazine: "The Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade?

A man stepped out of the dim shadows.

It was dark, out on the narrow lane that ran past the sawmills, dark and very green, the boundary wall a dim colony of moss and ferns, the shadows under the trees damp and still.

The multitude live in a dark cave and see only dim shadows.

"We took a dim view of that".