Sentence examples for fleeting shadow from inspiring English sources

I was tempted to make my escape before he said the word again, but the fleeting shadow in his eyes held me there.

Then, on its heels, a fleeting shadow.

Every suspect sound and fleeting shadow could be a rat waiting to pounce.

To alert me to the fact that, for a long time to come, the failure of our relationship would continue to pass before me like this bicycle: a fleeting dark shadow, reminding me how easy it is to confuse want with happiness?

In early works like Árvore (tree) and Sombra (shadow), nature turns noir: fleeting shadows of trees are mapped in a vast grid of photographs.

It is never unpleasant to watch Mr. Smith, who likes to play peekaboo with his charm, hiding it now and then behind fleeting shadows of anguish or malice.

Even with all that screen time, however, the hunters' pleas for contact go unanswered, except for raspy whispers and fleeting shadows.

In his book, he writes of a Gaelic expression that describes the fleeting shadows cast on moorland as clouds scud across the sky on a bright, windy day.

Try not to be perturbed by the flickering candle, the fleeting shadows, the horned, hairy hand that appears at your elbow.

Still, Ms. Rowling is very much a phenomenon of this era, and in the counterview her work is in the same league as the other fleeting shadows of an insubstantial, market- and celebrity-oriented age.

As you move around it, the noncolor yields a fleeting shadow-play.