Sentence examples for dim shadow from inspiring English sources
In the dim shadow of the canopy her luminous eyes shone more brilliantly than usual, filled as they were with tears of joy.
Those that come only after most alternative routes have already been closed are just a dim shadow of those that come when there's still time to compare multiple paths.
Zyla observes in his book that the difference between persimmon and scarlet can be the difference between a woman's "looking like her full self" and being reduced to "some dim shadow".
House Speaker Michael J. Madigan of Chicago predicted that a compromise bill that the House and the Senate ultimately write might still wear the label of consumer protection, but it would be a dim shadow of 626.
As Mr. Assouline readily admits, next to Tintin's life, Hergé's was a dim shadow, of interest mostly for the way it reminds us, yet again, that there is no accounting for genius.
Somehow, though, I think he would still like to design a garden studded with modern pavilions that would complement (he is not interested in rivalling or bettering) the place that has so inspired him, the Taoist Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou, with its poetically named buildings: the Standing-in-the-Snow Hall, Faint Fragrance Dim Shadow Tower and True Delight Pavilion.
A man stepped out of the dim shadows.
The multitude live in a dark cave and see only dim shadows.
The electricity had failed, as it often did, and the full moon climbing the sky lit the scene indirectly, reflecting off the whitewashed walls, throwing dim shadows around the machinery strewn about, plows and planters, drags, harrows.
Doodles and abstract splashes of white paint overlay murky washes of glowing resin on both sides of their membranous support, then cast dim shadows on the wall behind, so that the pictures seem suspended in midair, floating.
"Across the vast pale desert, haunted by dim shadows of conquests past, rides the lonely hero," we read of L. P. The conquests past are sexual and cinematic -- pornography being high art in Cinecity -- and L. P. is lonely because that is human fate.
