In a darkened "war room," dozens of South Korea's university students are practising hacking one another as part of a government programme to train them to battle some of the world's best – the shadowy techno-soldiers of Kim Jong-un's regime in the North.
As Russell (1956, p. 223) later says, propositions seem to be at best "curious shadowy things" in addition to facts.
But in Mr. Rudnick's best plays, humor illuminates shadowy depths beneath clever surfaces.
It's at its best when layered with shadowy glimpses of wife (Sophie Scott) and violinist (Tobias Beer) caught spellbound in the rapture of music.
The ability of him and Ms. Roth to combine Ms. Ruskin's lyrics and the emotional expressions of the character Isabella into a single human outcry is remarkable, perhaps for some viewers extraordinary enough to quiet the distraction of always having a musical performer onstage whose role in the play is shadowy at best.
The state of race relations, changing rapidly throughout the 1960s, was one of the most urgent topics of the era, yet white writers have, by and large, neglected the subject, with the result that the black presence in American fiction is shadowy at best.
It is reminiscent of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in Iran, which came to power in 1979 with the support of millions of Iranian women, but which immediately did its very best, with aid of shadowy vigilantes, to push women out of the public sphere.
The best came last, with Limen, shadowy, mysterious, more sensuous than we've seen before from Wayne McGregor.
Her beginnings were extraordinarily harsh: her parents (her father is a shadowy figure at best) were part of a movement called Word of Faith, "a set of teachings that involves claiming and standing by God's promises in the Bible".
By Russell Platt August 12, 2008 Although the soprano Kathleen Battle was a regular recitalist at Carnegie Hall through the nineteen-nineties — in other words, both before and after her infamous 1994 dismissal from the Metropolitan Opera — she has been a shadowy presence, at best, in New York since.
