Sentence examples for a shadowy presence from inspiring English sources

Steven Gerrard scored England's sole goal, but has been a shadowy presence since then.

Two of the stories also feature the author himself as a shadowy presence.

Previously a shadowy presence, she fills a diary with an account of her adolescent struggles with their vituperative mother, Beli.

Yet Mr. Hoyle still maintains a shadowy presence onstage despite a desire to remove himself from the narrative.

Naipaul's flirtation with Hindu nationalism is still to come, and the second Lady Naipaul is a shadowy presence so far.

The Elettra was Violet Noorduyn, who sang ably, but was never able to make Elettra into more than a shadowy presence.

On that occasion, as on many that will follow, he becomes an anomalous, shadowy presence — almost a ghost himself.

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the attacks of September 11 and the man who ever since has remained an elusive, shadowy presence at the centre of perhaps the world's greatest manhunt, has been killed by special forces troops at a compound two hours outside of Islamabad.

A sort of shadowy presence that hovered by the back door.

Although this is a painting of tranquillity, family life even, it throbs with the shadowy presence of a power sublime and incommensurable.

Moving toward Afghanistan, DiFi says that what the Taliban has done is expand their "shadowy presence" as a governing entity, and now they are moving into the Northeast and are essentially running things.