Sentence examples for fall of shadow from inspiring English sources

Golden light bathes the youth's legs while a fall of shadow leads the eye, once again, to his penis – another pose based on one of Michelangelo's nudes in the Sistine Chapel.

He went on to say that the past eight years "have seen the falling of shadows over what for a quarter of a century had seemed to be an increasingly sunny landscape".

When her husband dies, the widow often becomes a pariah, excluded from family gatherings for fear the mere fall of her shadow will bring bad luck and tragedy.

He depended on editors and idea men for many of his cartoons, but there was a powerful fall of light and shadow in everything he did, including his breathtaking covers.

Or olives on the point of falling: the shadow of decay gives them a peculiar beauty".

A middle-aged man had a "feeling of shadow falling over his body, hunted by enemies, hearing extremely loud screams".

Those old black-and-white movies were choreographed down to the last angle of shadow that fell on Bette Davis's face.

In telling details like the quicksilver shocks and sparks that accompanied the line "For He is like a refiner's fire" and the fine gradations of shadow that fell across the arioso "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth," he demonstrated the kind of insight that distinguishes a truly fine Handel performance from a routine one.

She understands that children are a pleasure-seeking species, and that adolescence is a delicious last gasp (the light is most golden just before the shadows fall) of rightful selfishness and cluelessness.

Across this utterly transformed landscape falls the shadow of El Silencio, the jamming of radio transmissions by mysterious pulses from outer space that also scramble human DNA, with unpredictable consequences.

Light falls from the left, leaving traces of shadow on the side of his face, a device commonly found in van Eyck's early portraits.