Sentence examples for empty shadow from inspiring English sources

"Keeping Up with the Joneses" provides a formidable reminder that, for the most part, Hollywood exists as an empty shadow of an ideal that's deeply rooted in the history and, for that matter, in the art of the cinema — a shadow powerful enough to maintain both the illusion of Hollywood's persistence and the longing for it to persist.

It was drawn (or painted) and seamlessly inserted after the fact; the empty frame shadow is still visible on the floor.

Then the grass-lined ambulance bay behind the hospital stayed empty, the shadows of waiting stretchers lengthening in the twilight.

That was when floorboards creaked in empty rooms and shadows shifted in the corners.

The software of emotionally charged imagining emerged from serendipities that included, prominently, the "metaphysical" townscapes — empty streets, sinister shadows, phallic towers — that Giorgio de Chirico had started painting in 1910.

A silent, sun-scorched jumble of empty streets and shadow-dwelling dogs, where saloon-doored tequila bars shelter bad men, and there's an atmosphere of the whole town holding its breath, waiting for a stranger to enter the square, kick the spurs of his cowboy boots into the midday dust and start something.

Bronstein's stark, black-and-white rendering of a corner of Regency London owes something to Nash, but also reminds me of Giorgio de Chirico's surreal Turin: the light falls over an empty architecture, the shadows ruled with absolute precision across the eerily unpeopled buildings.

I start thinking how I normally hate the feeling of an empty house; the shadows, the quiet.

The entire vibe is spooky, with the vocals rising up out of a mine shaft or echoing throughout an empty house and shadowed by emotions to painful to express.

Upon hearing the track, I immediately began to see dark empty spaces, underground realms shrouded in shadow haunted by some unseen presence.

BOARDED-UP buildings and empty lots in the shadow of office towers hardly seemed a promising foundation for an arts district in rapidly growing Phoenix.