The phrase "a murky shadow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unclear, indistinct, or difficult to perceive, often evoking a sense of mystery or foreboding.
Example: "As I walked through the dimly lit alley, I couldn't shake the feeling that a murky shadow was following me."
Alternatives: "a vague silhouette" or "an obscure figure".
And since private firms, particularly small and medium enterprises, have been unable to get much credit from official banks, they have turned to informal lenders which has spawned a murky shadow banking system.All this explains why the liberalisation of the lending rate is but a half measure.
Speaker Sophie Thomas gnomically declared campus censorship to be a "murky shadow of foreboding".
We're far outside the realms of ordinary experience here – those normal occurrences like getting on a train and not being able to find a seat – and heading deep into a murky shadow-world, where something awaits us.
His portraits were heavy on contrast, all murky shadows and overwhelming columns of light, strange props, surreal situations, and the stoic, unfazed look on a subject's face.
Which is a pity, because Oates is equally extravagant with memorably acute phrasing, as when fog is described as "walls of pale mist like amnesia" or Krista's blonde ponytail "caught the eye of men the way an upright flame drifting through murky shadow would catch the eye".
Dürer's immaculate braids may vouch for his high-mindedness, but in Rembrandt's self-portraits his hair is frizzly, unkempt, almost repellently organic, and his face, surrounded by murky shadow, sprouts, as Hall brilliantly puts it, "like a potato from peaty soil".
The picture: You show a real flair for framing and perspective in this shot's depth, its murky shadows, the shoes seemingly cascading from the heavens in a waterfall of bad shoes.
Was this a stern test from the sinister people watching him unseen from the murky shadows?
With intelligence, detailed scholarship, originality, honesty and humility they bring clarity and light to murky shadows.
Turkey's investigation remains hidden in the murky shadows of intelligence and security services.
Otherwise the X-ray of internal soft tissue would show murky shadows of overlapping organs.
