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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shadow of death" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in a literary or poetic context to describe a state of deep despair or danger, frequently associated with fear or mortality.
Example: "As he walked through the dark forest, he felt as if he were in a shadow of death, with every rustle of leaves heightening his anxiety."
Alternatives: "valley of death" or "shadow of despair".
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Everywhere was a shadow of death.
Like a shadow of death racing across the ocean surface, a tsunami churns the air and darkens the water along its path.
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We seek security and recognition for the state of Israel, which has lived in a shadow of random death for too long.
The "shadow-of-death" effect, i.e. lower productivity observed in failing firms even many years before they exit, is also noted in a recent study by Carreira and Teixeira (2011) using data on Portuguese firms.
As Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky mentioned in his address, citing Psalm 23, Ground Zero and the area around it is indeed a valley of the shadow of death.
Every phone conversation, every encounter, every argument, every silly or fleeting thought; everything assumes a new mysteriously vivid quality, an occult focus, as the shadow of death falls across it.
Don't Look Now is drenched with sex and displaced sexual longing, given a dark eroticism by the shadow of death.
When you learn that your enslaved great-great-great grandfather walked barefoot in the shadow of death in a Confederate state to fight for freedom under a flag that did not protect him -- somehow you just can't see the world the way you did before.
But as he pointed out in a interview, his movies are less about death and dying than about life lived in the shadow of death — an important distinction for this most meticulous of filmmakers.
A man who had always lived in the shadow of death — he suffered from Marfan syndrome, a hereditary tissue disease — he now seemed to be calling all divinities.
The voices and demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death are a direct transcription of Bunyan's own obsessive and neurotic fears during his conversion.
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