Sentence examples for a vast shadow from inspiring English sources

The Met is a minor empire, a banana republic, with its own court of insiders and a vast shadow government of fault-finding fans.

An experiment that tracks subtle motions of subatomic particles called muons has found tantalizing evidence for a vast shadow universe of normally unseen matter existing side by side with ours, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory said yesterday.

I turned to the lighting controls, which reminded me of a map of a planetary system, and my figure, whom I had taken to calling Gus, cast a vast shadow in what looked like an empty room.

The manipulation of folk memory casts a vast shadow over twentieth century Europe and still plays a big role in sustaining ideology of groups like the BNP, for example.

Not only had the government failed to keep tabs on exotic new financial products like derivatives, but the sweeping away of banking regulations established in the wake of the Great Depression (along with Wall Street's ability to evade remaining rules) had resulted in the development of "a vast shadow banking system" outside regulatory oversight.

Jamie still casts a vast shadow over Danny's life, too – after seeing Jamie's landmark campaign to improve the quality of school dinners, Danny made a slightly ropey BBC3 documentary about how he thought that aliens were probably real, which is more or less exactly the same thing.

The place is enormous, with 187 seats -- a vast, dark cavern with pools of light and shadow.

But in Manhattan's vast shadow, a lush garden of humanity grows, unruly, sometimes painfully, the runners and tendrils of one vine uprooting another.

Starved of capital, all but a small fraction of Egyptian business owners mine a vast, unregulated shadow market.

Finally, the orographic barrier of the Andes produces a vast rain shadow over much of the southern tier of the continent.

Of course, the future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.