The phrase "against the shadow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing opposition, contrast, or metaphorical meanings related to darkness or obscurity.
Example: "The hero stood bravely against the shadow, determined to bring light to the darkness that threatened his village."
Alternatives: "in opposition to the shadow" or "facing the shadow".
Yet, Bagehot submits, recent briefings against the shadow chancellor from within Mr Miliband's camp suggest a growing impatience with his performance that could sweep those impediments aside.
"Deep in the Shade of Paradise" is to Faulkner as "Anna Russell Sings" is to Wagner -- a romp of tuneful, playful narrative against the shadow of vast fate.
Quatro's female protagonists yearn and lust, and the stories articulate that lustful yearning with an exciting literary freedom; but these infidelities and imagined infidelities play out against the shadow of Christian belief and Christian prohibition.
Jean Baudrillard's belief that the defining characteristic of America is its fabrication of reality was anticipated by Duhamel's polemics against the "shadow world" of the movies, with their reduction of audiences to somnolent zombies sitting in the dark.
Labour split three ways on the recent Trident motion, with Corbyn voting against, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, and then shadow defence secretary, Clive Lewis, abstaining, and many Labour MPs backing renewal.
A week after the Tories raised £160,000 by selling a game of tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the Labour party will on Wednesday be auctioning a five-a-side football match against the "shadow cabinet all-stars".
Remains a light against the shadows of nationalism and ethnic chauvinism.
Photo: Against the shadows of mourners, an earthmover covered coffins yesterday during a mass burial in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
This moving idea, of the nativity in the dark as a glowing moment of fragile humanity pitched against the shadows, would still be a powerful Dutch theme in the age of Rembrandt.
If you're of a certain antiquity, you may recall a protest that was held in the 1980's against the shadows that an earlier version of this building would have cast on Central Park.
Whether tinting "the air an apple green," seeming to "grind against the shadows" or falling "bronzed and buttery on the endless sweep of grazeland," or whether coming as "feathers," a "slap" or a "soft throw," it exerts a mighty influence on the people it illuminates.
