Sentence examples for a shadowy past from inspiring English sources

A father felled by a shadowy past.

Auntie Mei is not alone in her struggle with a shadowy past.

Its director, Tommy Wiseau, is also an enigmatic man with a shadowy past.

This may have to do with the High Bridge's having a shadowy past.

The awkward outsider and adolescent frees the ghost from the bathroom, forcing the family to confront a shadowy past.

And Timothy Olyphant plays Wes Krulik, a mysterious loner who befriends Ellen in a grief counseling group and has a shadowy past of his own.

A typical pencil drawing by Mr. Foy, on which he might spend as much as a year, teems with massed forms that seem to rear up out of a shared shadowy past: human limbs and torsos, webs of twisted organic shapes that recall tree roots and leaves.

The City of Spies guided walking tour shines a spotlight on that shadowy past, bringing some colourful characters, including the "real" James Bond, to life.

In 61 HOURS (Delacorte, $28), Child drops a few more hints about the shadowy past of his hero, an ex-military cop who lives on the road, carrying no bags, traveling by instinct and stopping by chance.

Only she would find a way to help these women turn their shadowy past into acceptable material for a resume.

It's worth noting that one of the films he made during his European self-exile, "Mr. Arkadin," stars Welles himself as a grand figure of outsize ambition who, in effect, performs a devastating investigation into his own shadowy past.