Sentence examples for a mere shadow from inspiring English sources

That would be a mere shadow of freedom.

The Social and Economic Council became a mere shadow of its former self.

Russia's May Day celebrations were a mere shadow of the Soviet-orchestrated extravaganzas.

The Taliban military was a mere shadow of the Iraqi military, they said.

His book-length study of the Lieder concluded that the world was a mere shadow to the composer.

Today the major international music competitions cast a mere shadow of the influence and prestige they once did.

Or it means to suffer through the endless movies--some art, some trash--that turn the Southeast Asian into a cardboard cut-out, a mere shadow-puppet, for the blood-lust fantasies of a popcorn audience whose only desire is to stuff their faces with napalm nightmares.

He says that without the human-exploration side, the science side would be “a mere shadow of itself today”.

This may not be difficult, since the Wolf is drawn as mere shadow, with a brown blurry silhouette that stands in sharp contrast to Louis's bright blue outlines.

Experience poses the questions we are asked to live, and our writing is the mere shadow of an answer.

We knew there was no escaping human nature: my grandmother taught me that: my own pitiless nature taught me that: but we exist inside an order, I thought, of which history is the mere shadow — "The Infinite," by Charles Simic (February 6th) The infinite yawns and keeps yawning.