Sentence examples for a pale reflection of from inspiring English sources
British theatre needs Barker at his brilliant best not as a pale reflection of himself.
A pale reflection of the patient stares back from the surface of the glass.
India's billion people have seen only a pale reflection of the astonishing transformation that has affected China's billion-plus.
Its manifesto, though only a pale reflection of Benn's leftwing programme, was dubbed "the longest suicide note in history".
The pain of Delmore's poetry is only a pale reflection of the painful life from which it grew.
But if the ancient descriptions of the tomb are even a pale reflection of the truth, that amount of masonry is unlikely to have wandered far.
The chief examples of historical conflict in Taliban poetry are the Anglo-Afghan wars, of which today's United States-led war in Afghanistan is seen as a pale reflection.
But that hardly served to make the performance itself more meaningful than a simple — and pale — reflection of reality.
The feeling that today's Jews are but pale reflections of a truer, authentic Jewish life; the feeling that Jewish greatness did once exist, but it was long ago; the feeling that some distant place and not the here-and-now was and is the authentic Jewish home -- those feelings do somehow spring up irrepressibly in the Jewish soul.
In either case, it conveniently ignores the fact that the heroes of the past were often undervalued by their contemporaries as mere pale reflections of the "really" great figures of an even more distant past.
"Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex" as pale reflections of the nightmare tales of childhood.
