Sentence examples for fragile shadow from inspiring English sources

It is a tremendous and harrowing portrait, Akerman's voiceover caressing her mother's fragile shadow on screen.

So demolition seems to be fate for the Astoria, a fragile little shadow of Yorkville's history.

However, what's superimposed is no more than a shadow, a fragile mold that wavers in and out of existence against my mind's eye.

This moving idea, of the nativity in the dark as a glowing moment of fragile humanity pitched against the shadows, would still be a powerful Dutch theme in the age of Rembrandt.

Yet with each airstrike, it condemns itself more vividly to the role that its enemies have chosen for it: the violent, blundering superpower dominating the Gulf, its fragile allies cowering in its shadow.

On Wednesday, Mr. Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party, was sworn into office, ushering in a new coalition government that will put Greece back at Europe's bargaining table and ending a seven-week leadership vacuum that had destabilized this already fragile nation and cast a shadow over the euro zone's future.

Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight?

Since the beginning of life on Earth, around 3.5 billion years ago, the fragile existence has lived in the shadow of annihilation.

They just gave us a cutesy name that has stuck ever since, the shame-filled shadow cast by our fragile national pride.

There was never a hint of vulgarity, even if there were shadows of lingerie under fragile chiffon dresses or when slivers of skin appeared through lace fabric or as cut-away backs to the long gowns.

Watch the apotheosizing play of shadow on the face of the fragile heroine when she sings "Sì, mi chiamano Mimi".